05/12/2025
Seventeen years ago today, an 8.0 magnitude earthquake took place at 14:28 on May 12, 2008, destroying a large area around Beichuan city in China’s Sichuan province and causing 70,000 deaths and 375,000 casualties. Days later, filmmaker Du Haibin arrived at the area to capture the devastation as well as the recovery effort.
Du Haibin's award-winning documentary of the earthquake that devastated the province explores how victims, citizens and government respond to a national tragedy, depicting a world in chaos, both material and moral.
"Without judgment but with a deep compassion for their subjects, the filmmakers of 1428 bring us a myriad of individual stories of absurdity, confusion and grief."—CNN
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At 14:28 on May 12, 2008, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake destroyed a large area around Beichuan city, in China’s Sichuan province. Filmmaker Du Haibin arrived ten days later, and started to film this extraordinary documentary of the aftermath.
