EXCLUSIVE: The men of the new documentary The Dating Game are looking for love in modern China, but the odds aren’t exactly stacked in their favor.

In a society that favors male babies over female, there are about 30 million more men than women around, “a huge overall sex imbalance,” according to the Pew Research Center. It also means that men of marrying age – guys like Zhou, Li, and Wu — who hope to find a wife face much more robust competition. In the film directed by Violet Du Feng , the men enlist the aid of a dating coach – Hao – and attend a weeklong dating camp to enhance their facility in the arts of seduction, or at least basic conversation skills with the opposite sex.

The Dating Game , which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, opens in theaters in the

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