Please vote for me

Chinese school children aged eight years elect their class monitor. The “Please Vote for Me” site is here.

I’m not sure if these links to the full documentary on You Tube are authorised: 1,2,3,4,5

Variety described this film as a “must see”: “Weijun Chen’s thought-provoking and achingly hilarious docu, featuring Chinese 8-year-olds involved in an experiment in democracy, follows three candidates as they run for the hitherto teacher-appointed position of class monitor. Within hours, kids’ spontaneous reactions to the new situation give way to campaign strategies, psychological manipulations and dirty tricks, greatly enabled by their parents’ spin-doctoring. Adorable and horrifying in equal measure..”