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Chinese Festival on Screen
09/05/08
CHINA NOW, Britain’s largest ever festival of Chinese culture, will present Zhang Yang’s family saga Sunflower at City Screen, York, on May 20 as part of the widest-reaching tour of Chinese mainstream films ever seen here. The Press has tickets to be won for the screening.
The tour will visit 17 film houses nationwide and will show 11 films, including premieres of box-office hits such as Sunflower, to reflect the social changes in China over the past 20 years.
Made in 2005, the 129-minute Sunflower (PG) stars Joan Chen, Sun Hai Ying, Liu Zi Feng in a saga that unfolds over 25 years, combining personal memories and salient moments of recent history to reveal the impact on one family of the changes that have produced a new China.
Zhang’s ode to change focuses on a troubled father-son relationship to analyse the enduring importance of the family in Chinese culture. In 1976, the death of Chairman Mao and the downfall of the Gang of Four mean that the painter Geng Nian is finally released after years in a labour camp. He returns to his nine-year-old son, Xiang Yang, who does not recognise him, denies his authority and refuses to accept his dream that he should become a painter too.
Win tickets
Courtesy of CHINA NOW and City Screen, York, YorkTwenty4Seven has five pairs of tickets to be won for the May 20 screening of Sunflower.
Question: Who directed Sunflower?
Send your answer with your name, address and daytime phone number, on a postcard, to Charles Hutchinson, Sunflower Competition, The Press, 76-86 Walmgate, York, YO1 9YN, by next Friday. Usual competition rules apply.
CHINA NOW is a six-month nationwide festival of more than 1000 Chinese events including exhibitions, performances and activities spanning Chinese film, cuisine, comics, art, literature, music, design, science, technology, business, education and sport.
The festival was launched to coincide with Chinese New Year and runs through to the end of July and the opening of the Beijing Olympics. Visit www.chinanow.org.uk/events for more details.
The China Now One World Tour will show four films at City Screen, York: Zhuang Zhuang Tian’s The Go Master on Tuesday (May 13); Sunflower, May 20; Jia Zhangke’s Still Life (PG), May 27; and Jennifer Baichwal’s Manufactured Landscapes (U), June 3. For tickets, ring 0871 704 2054.
The tour will visit 17 film houses nationwide and will show 11 films, including premieres of box-office hits such as Sunflower, to reflect the social changes in China over the past 20 years.
Made in 2005, the 129-minute Sunflower (PG) stars Joan Chen, Sun Hai Ying, Liu Zi Feng in a saga that unfolds over 25 years, combining personal memories and salient moments of recent history to reveal the impact on one family of the changes that have produced a new China.
Zhang’s ode to change focuses on a troubled father-son relationship to analyse the enduring importance of the family in Chinese culture. In 1976, the death of Chairman Mao and the downfall of the Gang of Four mean that the painter Geng Nian is finally released after years in a labour camp. He returns to his nine-year-old son, Xiang Yang, who does not recognise him, denies his authority and refuses to accept his dream that he should become a painter too.
Win tickets
Courtesy of CHINA NOW and City Screen, York, YorkTwenty4Seven has five pairs of tickets to be won for the May 20 screening of Sunflower.
Question: Who directed Sunflower?
Send your answer with your name, address and daytime phone number, on a postcard, to Charles Hutchinson, Sunflower Competition, The Press, 76-86 Walmgate, York, YO1 9YN, by next Friday. Usual competition rules apply.
CHINA NOW is a six-month nationwide festival of more than 1000 Chinese events including exhibitions, performances and activities spanning Chinese film, cuisine, comics, art, literature, music, design, science, technology, business, education and sport.
The festival was launched to coincide with Chinese New Year and runs through to the end of July and the opening of the Beijing Olympics. Visit www.chinanow.org.uk/events for more details.
The China Now One World Tour will show four films at City Screen, York: Zhuang Zhuang Tian’s The Go Master on Tuesday (May 13); Sunflower, May 20; Jia Zhangke’s Still Life (PG), May 27; and Jennifer Baichwal’s Manufactured Landscapes (U), June 3. For tickets, ring 0871 704 2054.
