Chinese films to stream in US during Spring Festival
- By Zhang Rui
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E-mail China.org.cn, January 30, 2022
To celebrate Chinese New Year, starting Feb. 1, 2022, Asian Pop-Up Cinema, a semi-annual Asian film festival, will present a Happy Chinese New Year free streaming series for U.S. and Canadian viewers.
Films chosen by the festival's founder and executive director, Sophia Wong Boccio, include three North American premieres and three special encore films, "Continuing our tradition of celebrating the Chinese New Year with some Chinese films with significant cultural and historical aspects," Wong Boccio said, " We are happy to present three films that have never before exhibited in North America."
Premiering are two exploratory documentaries and one feature film -- "The Road of China," a collection of observational shorts by international youth who visited China as part of an ongoing international cultural exchange program "Looking China Youth Film Project"; "Spring City," capturing the first-person explorations of Kunming, Yunnan province, by director He Yanqing; and "Life of Buda," a feature-length drama based on the true story of a grassland hero and the establishment of China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
The three encore feature films include Wei Shujun's "Striding into the Wind," Liu Ze's "Being Mortal," and Chinese anthology blockbuster "My People, My Country."
The movies will be streamed Feb. 1-15, and are free to watch. The event is powered by the Smart Cinema USA platform and sponsored by the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Chicago. Viewers can watch from anywhere in North America. All films have English subtitles.
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