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Ricardo Leong Center for Chinese Studies presents Spring Film Festival 2010date posted: 2010-01-20 11:11:24
The Ateneo de Manila University’s Ricardo Leong Center for Chinese Studies, in partnership with Ateneo Celadon and Shangri-La Plaza, present the Spring Film Festival of Chinese films at the Shang Cineplex from February 3-9, 2010.
Now on its fourth year, the festival aims to promote Chinese language and culture in mainstream Philippine society, particularly among young Filipinos, so that they can become bridges between China and the Philippines. This year’s festival features films from three acclaimed Chinese directors and a young director’s debut film that performed phenomenally at the box office.
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Zhang Yuan’s "Seventeen Years" 過年回家 won Best Director at the Shanghai Film Critics Award (2000) and the Singapore International Film Festival (2000). In her teenage years, Tao Lan accidentally kills her stepsister and is convicted of murder. After seventeen years, she is granted a new year’s furlough, but her parents do not fetch her from prison. Tao Lan befriends a prison guard who helps her mount a reunion with her family, but after the tragedy and the heartache, is a reunion possible?
"In Love We Trust" 左右, by Wang Xiaoshuai, won the Silver Bear at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival. Meizhu and Xiaolu were once happily married and a lovely daughter, Hehe, is born to them. After their divorce, both remarry, but when Hehe contracts leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant from a sibling, they face the dilemma of their lives. Their loyalty, relationships, love and commitment are all put to the test.
‘The World" 世界’ refers to a theme park that invites visitors to see the world without leaving Beijing. With its replicas of world icons such as the Eiffel Tower and the leaning tower of Pisa, the park and its shows are a glittering attraction, but behind it are lonely workers struggling to communicate and find love. The story follows the pretty dancer Tao and the security guard Taisheng in a film that tries to reflect on the fate of individuals in the face of globalization. The World is directed by Jia Zhangke and won Best Foreign Film at the Toronto Film Critics Association in 2005.
Wei Te-Sheng’s first film, "Cape No. 7" 海角七号, was multi-awarded at the 2008 Golden Horse Awards. It was also the all-time top-grossing film of Taiwan. Aga, a frustrated-rock-star-turned-substitute-postman, tries to form a band for a concert organized by the Japanese talent agent, Tomoko. They soon find themselves linked to an earlier time, when a Japanese schoolteacher fell in love with a Taiwanese girl he had to leave behind. This romantic comedy-musical is a fresh approach to Taiwan’s history as a Japanese colony.
View the screening schedule.
With four diverse films featured in Spring Film Festival 2010, there is something to pique the interest of anyone who wants to learn more about contemporary Chinese culture.
Sponsors of this festival include the Confucius Institute, Chinese-Filipino Business Club, Remal Enterprises, Inc, Richwell Trading Corporation, Jollibee Foods Corporation, Alasco Vinyl Corporation, Philstar.com, load.com.ph and Red Ribbon.
For more information, please call Ateneo Leong Center 426-6001 local 5208-5209; 5280. For tickets, please call Shang Cineplex at 633-2227.
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