Later in the series, audiences can catch rare screenings of Zhan Liang's five-hour version of "Petition" and the 556-minute "West oftheTracks" (shown in two programs), Wang Bing's immersive portrait ofthe collapse of Shenyang, an industrial city in the northeast devastated by economic erosion.
Heading west from Dar es Salaam, the road traverses the Ruvu River, tracks along the base ofthe Uluguru Mountains and meanders through sisal plantations and a string of small villages.