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(2013; Israel | USA | China; Language: English | Mandarin | Chinese; 74 min.; color)
Directors/Writers: Hilla Medalia, Shosh Shlam
Cast: Ran Tao - Himself - Addiction Specialist; Director of Daxing camp, Beijing Military Hospital (as Professor Tao Ran).
The Chinese government is the first to classify internet addiction as a clinical disorder. 'Web Junkie' features a Beijing treatment center where adolescents are being deprogrammed, and follows the story of three boys from the day they arrive at the center, to their three-month treatment period, and their long-awaited return home. The film provides a microcosm of modern Chinese society and investigates one of the symptoms of the internet age.

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