Manchester Airport, alongside Hainan Airlines, is launching a Chinese film festival that will travel the length and breadth of the UK to celebrate movies and culture from China. Starting in Manchester on 22nd February the Chinese film festival will run until 11th April and take place in 12 UK cities. Each event is free of charge. Films […]
“How much sorrow can one man have to bear? As much as a river of spring water flowing east” Often cited as one of the masterpieces of Chinese cinema, The Spring River Flows East, made in 1947, is an epic and tragic melodrama set in Shanghai and Chungking around the time of the Second Sino-Japanese […]
Interview by Han Li As I walked into the interview room, lights brightly illuminating the room’s four corners from its centre, I was led in by a polite entourage of young men and women with ear pieces and billboards. As one of the cameramen walked towards me, I saw Donnie Yen sitting across an empty […]
Both Sides Now 3 – Final Frontiers brings together a collection of film and video from China and Hong Kong that explores displacement, migration and memory. The films explore developments within the culture and society of Hong Kong and China over several decades, including work which reflects on the ongoing dynamics of cultures in Hong Kong, […]
Ying Xian LIM is a vivacious and passionate young woman who dares to tread upon the road not taken in order to pursue her dream of being a film producer. After graduating with a Bachelors in English Language and Literature from UCL (2013) and a Masters in Film Studies from Kings College (2014), she became […]
Opening this year on 20th October at ODEON Leicester Square with South Korea’s Academy Award submission The Age of Shadows (UK premiere), the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF) will run for 11 days from 20th to 30th October. It will close with Johnnie To’s Three at Ham Yard Hotel Cinema. Building on the ‘0th […]
Exploring 50 years of Chinese history across a diverse range of footage from 1900 – 1948, the collection includes what might be the oldest surviving film to be shot in China which remained unseen for 115 years. Also to be seen is Shanghai’s bustling, cosmopolitan Nanjing Road in 1900, the Great World Amusement Park in […]
Nee Hao Magazine’s Deputy Editor, Yinsey Wang, interviews Zhu on the film and her background and aspirations as an artist. Xiaowen Zhu is a documentary filmmaker, media artist, curator and writer. A master of various mediums, the Shanghai-born and raised artist is currently based in London. Her work has been exhibited in a variety of […]
Two Chinese films are being showcased for this year’s Open City Documentary Festival, Another Year and The Lost Arcade. Another Year (UK Premier) China /2016 / 181min /Sunday, June 26- 13:30/ Regent Street Cinema Directed by Shengzhe Zhu. It’s a slow and meditative family portrait. Twelve months, thirteen meals. The story of a family in […]
THE ASSASSIN has been lauded as the result of a renowned filmmaker at the peak of his powers. The first foray into the ‘Wuxia’ Martial Arts genre by the legendary Hou Hsiao-Hsien, the saga transports the viewer into a lavish spectacle of courtly intrigue, love, honour and power in Tang dynasty China. The magnetic Shu […]