Where Has Time Gone?

Directed by Jia Zhangke, Madhur Bhandarkar, Walter Salles, Jahmil X.T. Qubeka and Alexey Fedorchenko

With Zhao Tao, Liang Jingdong, Mandisa Nduna, Maeve Jinkings and Alina Kravtsova

A short film omnibus featuring the work of five directors representing five countries involved in the 2017 BRICS summit, an annual international relations conference held between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The collection—taking the concept of time as a unifying theme—depicts the economic, political, and social alienations and contradictions that create, compound, and structure issues as wide-ranging as poverty, class stratification, and homeless; familial distress; spousal abuse; and natural disaster.