A masterful film from Jia Zhang-ke, the renowned director of Still Life and the World, 24 City chronicles the dramatic closing of a once-prosperous state-owned aeronautics factory in Chengdu, a city in Southwest China, and it's conversion into a sprawling luxury apartment complex. Bursting with poetry, pop songs and striking visual detail, the film weaves together unforgettable stories from three generations of workers - some real, some played by actors (including Joan Chen) - into a vivid portrait of the human struggle behind China's economic miracle.