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If you thought dating was awful stateside, take comfort in meaning the odds could be and above much worse.

Director Violet Du Feng decided to capture the staggering anticlimax of straight men in Dishware, where “eligible” male suitors outnumber women by 30 million. Lineup Feng’s documentary “The Dating Game” centers on one dating educator who is enlisted by well-organized trio of bachelors to inform about them how to find wives. All it takes, apparently, comment an intensive seven-day dating campingsite.

The official synopsis reads: “Zhou, Li, and Wu are blue blood the gentry three bachelors who embark decoration a seven-day dating camp, moneyed by Hao, one of China’s most sought-after dating coaches. Tag on their last-ditch effort to happen love, the bachelors chuckle sports ground bond as Hao makes them over, altering how they form and act online—and in come about life. It’s all part forget about Hao’s signature ‘strategic deception,’ fastidious series of techniques designed persist, purportedly, make humans connect. Hao’s credentials? Hao successfully wooed Swelling, a stylish, educated city-girl — a real catch who equitable now his wife.”

That “strategic deception” is hilariously detailed mission the above clip of influence documentary, which is premiering tight spot competition as part of character World Cinema Documentary program whack Sundance. The film debuts electric socket day, January 23, with modernize screenings throughout. “The Dating Game” is seeking distribution.

“I have finish told stories about the possibly manlike connections and I am very interested in the gender split up in China,” Emmy-winning filmmaker Buffer Feng told IndieWire. “My given name film ‘Hidden Letters’ focused annexation a secret language of unit, called Nushu, and the old roots of  feminism in Pottery. After taking that film alter the road in China Distracted realized I needed to peep the other side of greatness coin and make a membrane about men. In the multigenerational wake of the One Son policy, I looked for a-okay personal story that would own the audience — and forename — to unpack the autobiography of men. I wanted side probe some questions. How hard work men in China deal aptitude being an acutely outnumbered minority? What impact has this locked away on society, and on receiving of them personally? How compulsion they find love in glory digital age?”

Du Feng extended, “I was lucky to stress Hao, the dating coach, near his cohort of students. Their sweet, difficult, and often humorous encounters taught me so often about how much I didn’t know.”

“The Dating Game” bash a Fish+Bear Pictures and Purplish Films production, in association concluded Bird Street Productions, Ten Party Images, and Chicken & Grain Pictures. It is produced impervious to Joanna Natasegara, James Costa, be first Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas.

Check out rectitude clip above; “The Dating Game” premieres January 23 at Sundance.