EMBASSY OF THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA

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INDO CINE APPRECIATION FOUNDATION

Present

CHINESE FILM FESTIVAL

2 BECOME 1/ Tin sun yut dui - 3 Sept 2008 6-15pm

Director:Wing-cheong Law - 2006/ Colour / 97 min/ Cantonese

Plot : A regular white-collar woman named Bing, who leads a carefree city life that includes guarding her turf in the office and dating and gossiping with her three girlfriends. However, her carefree life soon turns upside down when she found a lump in her breast. Everything begins to fall apart as she tries to cope with the loss of femininity in a series of bittersweet events. With the help of a happy-go-lucky doctor V and a shy but talented teenager Sing, Bing begins to find new meanings in her turmoil and the will to face her own demons.

Awards:1 nomination

THE BIRTHDAY - 3 Sept 2008 7-45pm

Director Ning Jingwu - 2007 / Colour / 91 min

Plot : Change is in the air as the family gather for Dad’s 65^th birthday, with their house due to be knocked down to make way for a new industrial zone. His wife worries about his illness and how they can ensure that their youngest boy, a simpleton, is looked after. The second son hires a wife for the weekend, while the oldest son is preoccupied with his own secrets, his wife is determined to ensure they get a good share of the compensation for the house. This film highlights the widening generation gap. With their children’s increasingly westernised ideals, the parents are fading victims.

BEAUTIFUL HOMELAND - 4 Sept 2008 6-15pm

Directed by Gao Feng. - 2004 / colour/ 98min

Plot In a charming pasture in western China, a Kazak old man and his family lead a traditional nomadic life. Their peaceful life together is disrupted by a lovesick girl. Soon afterwards, the youngest son decides to leave the pasture for the remote and unpredictable city. In an attempt to persuade him to stay, the old man decides to give all his possessions to him, and even tries to marry him to a widowed daughter-in-law. A struggle for the youngest son’s heart ensues between the unforgettable grassy plain of the Kazakh homeland and the sophisticated allure of the city.

CALL FOR LOVE / Ai qing hu jiao zhuan yi - 4 Sept 2008 8-00pm

Director Zhang Jianya - 2007/ Colour / 95 min/ Mandarin

Plot Call for Love is a surreal comedy about a divorced man (Xu Zheng), who gets a magical mobile phone from a whimsical angel. By pressing the phone’s buttons he finds he can contact 12 beauties, each one stranger than the other. During his quest for variety and new experiences the man learns a valuable lesson about life and love. The film takes us in the middle of a Chinese society caught in the torrents of modernization, where all-mighty technology can no longer satisfy the profound human longing for love.

FULL MOON OVER LIANGZHOU - 5 Sept 2008 6-15pm

Director : Wang Xingjun - 2005/ Colour / 98 min

Plot : This is a historic film based on the book of the Family Tree of Sajia which was written by a Tibetan monk in 1692. The story happened in Liangzhou, today’s Wuwei, Gansu Province, in 1247 AD, showing the peaceful union of Tibet to China. 1247 AD, Kuo Duan the Mongolian King led his men to fight Tibetans for unifying the country as a whole. But Kuo Duan changes his mind and sends his envoy Dao Na Ba to invite Saban, an eminent Tibetan monk to talk in Liangzhou for peace. The eminent monk accepts the invitation and withholds the fight, and leads his nephew Pagpa, to sign the historically renowned “Liangzhou Covenant”, which ends the 400-year war in Tibet and realized the harmonious unification among Tibetan, Mongolian and the Han.

TURPANS LOVE SONGS / Tu Lu Fan Qing Ge - 5 Sept 2008 8-00pm

Director Jin Lini Xi’erzti Yahefu - 2005 / Colour / 94 min

Plot : The Turpan Love Song depicts the life and relationships of two generations of people from an ethnic minority group living in Xinjiang in northwest China. The movie skillfully combines comedy, music and a touch of tragedy. The warm and romantic story tells about Mr. Halike’s family and their attempts to find a husband for their oldest daughter, Kangbarhan. People fall in love and couples will be formed, but there will also be problems. Besides the heartache and worries of the young lovers, some love tangles left unresolved some years back will also eventually reach closure. Generation gaps shrink away when love takes center stage.