

Some Like It Fake
In the Chinese village of Dafen, you can find anything and everything: a Gerhard Richter starts at 30 euros, a small Van Gogh costs 45 euros, his Sunflowers in medium size goes for 100. Monet’s Water Lilies is 120, Rembrandt’s self-portraits are 150, and for the smile of the Mona Lisa, you have to shell out around 200 because it’s supposedly not so easy for Chinese painters to copy. The output of this forgery is gigantic: over 10 million paintings are produced here each year. Thousands of painters work day and night in cramped spaces, painting the works of the great masters, which are primarily sold in bulk orders to Europe and America. Dafen’s industrious residents live from, with, and despite the great art—children grow up between Klimt’s The Kiss and Munch’s The Scream, families sleep under Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, watched over by Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.
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GermanyDE
- PremiereHof International Film Festival22 Oct 2025
- Theatrical06 Nov 2025
South KoreaKR
- TVALLEBS International Documentary Festival24 Aug 2026
- PremiereALLEBS International Documentary Festival27 Aug 2026
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Some Like It Fake was released on 6 November 2025.
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