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18 China on the Move MR TREE LAST TRAIN HOME China on the Move Marking Chinese New Year on Film Think you know China? Look again. To mark Chinese New Year, four award-winning films offer different perspectives on the complex transformations taking place in contemporary Chinese cinema, society and industry, and how they relate to the wider world. Presented by Take One Action Film Festivals, all screenings will be followed by expert and audience discussion. Supported by The Confucius Institute, University of Edinburgh, Scotland China Education Network, Scotland-China Association and The Blackford Trust. For more world-changing cinema visit www.takeoneaction.org.uk Mr Tree Hello! Shu Xian Sheng Wed 25 Jan at 8.15pm Han Jie • China 2011 • 1h28m • HD-Cam Mandarin with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Wang Baoqiang , Tan Zhuo. This double prize-winner at Shanghai Film Festival is a complex reflection on the challenges and questions arising from China’s rapidly changing rural economy. The film charts a year in the life of Mr Shu (aka Tree), a Chinese man with learning difficulties whose life allegorically mirrors the social and economic development of his hometown. Generally viewed as a benign but lazy idiot, Shu loses his job after a workplace accident, but at the same time transcends community hierarchies, giving the viewer a unique insight into the ties between local leaders, families, workers, businessmen, and even the past and future. Although it is never clear whether the dangers associated with a changing China are merely a mental disturbance or situated more widely, the film nonetheless begs the question: where is China going? “A satire that bridges the personal and political with fantasy and black humour.” The Hollywood Reporter Winner – Jury Prize, Best Director, Shanghai International Film Festival Followed by a discussion on the changing face of China’s rural economy and Chinese cinema. Last Train Home Thu 26 Jan at 8.15pm Lixin Fan • Canada/China/UK 2009 • 1h25m • Digibeta Mandarin with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos, as, all at once, a tidal wave of humanity attempts to return home by train. It is the Chinese New Year. The wave is made up of millions of migrant factory workers, and the homes they seek are the rural villages and families they left behind to find work in the booming coastal cities. It is an epic spectacle that tells us much about China, as it rapidly modernises and increases its global economic dominance. Last Train Home draws us into the fractured lives of a single migrant family caught up in this annual migration. Intimate and candid, the film paints a human portrait of the dramatic changes sweeping China. “An exceptional documentary… stunningly photographed.” IndieWire Winner – Best Feature Documentary, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam Followed by a discussion on urbanisation and the family. TICKETDEALS APART TOGETHER See any three (or more) films in this season and get 15% off This package is available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets. Tickets must all be bought at the same time.
China on the Move/Holocaust Memorial Day MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES Apart Together Tuan yuan Sat 28 Jan at 6.00pm Wang Quan’an • China 2010 • 1h37m • Digibeta Mandarin with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Lisa Lu, Ling Feng, Xu Cai-gen, Monica Mok, Baiyang. In his follow-up to the Berlin Golden Bear winner Tuya’s Marriage, director Wang Quan’an has fashioned a bittersweet late life romance, reuniting former lovers separated some fifty years earlier by the end of China’s civil war. When a political thaw permits surviving veterans in Taiwan to return to Shanghai to visit their families, ex-nationalist soldier Liu returns to his native city Shanghai to find the first love of his life, Qiao, who he left behind pregnant five decades earlier. In the meantime, Qiao has married and built a family, but Liu tracks her down and is determined to get the family’s approval to take her away with him. Made with support from the Chinese government, Apart Together marks a new frontier in representations of China’s history and its relationships with the outside world. “An engaging chamber piece about autumnal romance, bittersweet memory and self-sacrifice.” The Times Winner – Best Screenplay, Berlin International Film Festival Followed by a discussion on changing political landscapes in China. Manufactured Landscapes Sun 29 Jan at 6.00pm Jennifer Baichwal • Canada 2006 • 1h30m • Digital projection English, Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles • 12A Documentary In this series of extraordinary visual portraits, renowned artist Edward Burtynsky travels through China photographing the evidence and effects of its massive industrial revolution and the implicit impact on the environment. Director Jennifer Baichwal captures the artist at work amid some of the most surreal landscapes of the 21st century: the mountains of ‘ewaste’ in China where 50% of the world’s computers end up to be recycled; the Yangtze Valley where whole towns are being demolished to make way for the Three Gorges Dam, and the crowded skyline of Shanghai which has recently attracted millions of new inhabitants. “Powerful... engrossing... unsettlingly beautiful.” LA Times Winner – Best Canadian Film, Toronto International Film Festival Followed by discussion about Chinese industrialisation and its social and environmental impacts. See page 22 for details of Please Vote For Me, screening for schools on Wednesday 25 January at 10.30am, supported by SCEN. INSIDE HANA’S SUITCASE HOLOCAUSTMEMORIALDAY Inside Hana’s Suitcase Mon 23 Jan at 6.00pm Larry Weinstein • Canada/Czech Republic 2009 • 1h28m Digibeta • English, Czech and Japanese with English subtitles 12A • Documentary Hana Brady was just a little girl when she and her brother George were singled out as Jews, and sent away from home by the Nazis. Seventy years later a class of Japanese children received a package from the Holocaust museum in Germany. It contained what appears to be Hana’s suitcase and from this starting point the children and their teacher begin to unravel her story. Blending documentary, archive and reconstructions, the film tells Hana’s tragic story, and her brother’s more hopeful one. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Hana’s brother and Holocaust survivor George Brady, Fumika Ishioka and filmmaker Larry Weinstein. Filmhouse are delighted to work with The Scottish Inter Faith Council, The Scottish Government and Holocaust Memorial Trust on this very special event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. George Brady is one of the key speakers at the National Holocaust Memorial event in Dundee on 26 January and it is with great pleasure that he, Fumika Ishioka and Larry Weinstein will attend this Edinburgh screening. There is also a Filmhouse schools screening at 10am on 23 January, for details see page 22. 19
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