Dragon Girls

Dragon Girls 2012 Directed by Inigo Westmeier Drachenmädchen

Xin Chenxi: Tears are an expression of weakness.

The documentary film Dragon Girls tells the story of three young Chinese girls training to become Kung Fu fighters, far away from their families, at the largest Kung Fu school in China. These girls, in a crowd of 26,000 children, are under constant pressure to conform to the norms and structures. They are turned into fighting robots and yet, if you look behind the curtain, you see children with dreams and aspirations. It show the controversial world of selection of the fittest in a totalitarian system.

Country Germany

Production Country Germany

Language German

Spoken Language German

Gneres Action , Documentary , Drama

Production Companies WVG Medien , Polyband

Release Date 29 November 2012

90 mins