Before the Flood

CHINA/2004/Chinese/Color/Video/143min
Directors: Li Yifan, Yan Yu

The Three Gorges Dam will become world's largest when completed in 2009. This powerful, epic cinematic poem incisively captures the surging waves of time through the changing circumstances of people and towns whose futures lie beneath a deluge of water.

9.16(Sat) 17:20 @Polepole Higashinakano theater
9.29(Fri) 12:30 @Polepole Higashinakano theater
10.20(Fri) 18:30 @Athenee Francais Cultural Center

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Last House Standing

CHINA/2004/Chinese/Color, B&W
Video/54min
Directors: Gan Chao, Liang Zi

Innocent

SINGAPORE/2004/English, Chinese, others
Color, B&W/Video/27min

Directors: Gek Li San, Ho Choon Hiong

In Last House Standing, Mr. Jiang has watched over Shanghai through the years. As a young tomboyish lodger staying at his soon-to-be-demolished house questions him, his remarkable life gradually unfolds. In Innocent, the director first found out about her aunt's suicide at the funeral. Discovering the truth by reading between the lines of relatives' testimonies, a sense of stagnation in Singapore seeps through.

10.11(Wed) 15:00 @Athenee Francais Cultural Center
10.14(Sat) 16:00 @Athenee Francais Cultural Center

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Try to Remember

CHINA/2005/Chinese/Color/Video/90min
Director: Zhong Jian

As he travels with his mother to her home village, the director, at the height of his youth, records his mother’s childhood recollections of the Cultural Revolution.

10.11(Wed) 17:00 @Athenee Francais Cultural Center
10.19(Thu) 19:00 @Athenee Francais Cultural Center

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White Tower

CHINA/2003/Chinese/Color/Video/83min
Director: Su Qing, Mi Na

The very first of its kind in China, this human drama of love and marriage revolves around deaf women and men. Their vibrant exchange in sign language creates a dynamism faster than sonic velocity.

10.11(Wed) 19:00 @Athenee Francais Cultural Center
10.20(Fri) 16:30 @Athenee Francais Cultural Center

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Blossoming in the Wind

CHINA/2004/Tibetan, Chinese/Color/Video/60min
Director: Sun Yueling

Chen Lu

CHINA/2004/Chinese/Color, B&W/Video/29min
Director: Lin Xin

Blossoming in the Wind shows us a blissful journey by young Tibetan monks, their disciples and the director through snow-covered sacred mountains. Animals and human beings, all are full of life. Chen Lu in China is a town famous for ceramics. People’s faces when talking about their town, the landscape and the beauty of the ceramics are portrayed with artistic elegance.

10.14(Sat) 18:00 @Athenee Francais Cultural Center
10.20(Fri) 14:30 @Athenee Francais Cultural Center

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Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks

Part I 240min/Part II 175min/Part III 130min
CHINA/2003/Chinese/Color/Video/545min
Director, Photography, Editing: Wang Bing

The Tie Xi district in Shenyang in northeast China was established during the Japanese occupation and transformed into a highly populated industrial area. This unusually long-form documentary, taking us on a tour of this now decaying area, spreads over nine hours and three parts entitled Rust, Remnants, and Rails. Factories and towns become ruins, people are buffeted by change, and time ebbs away. An extraordinary documentary that puts the realities facing Chinese society into stark relief, through an exclusive and extended exploration of the region.

9.25(Mon) 12:30 Part I @Polepole Higashinakano theater
9.25(Mon) 17:05 Part II @Polepole Higashinakano theater
9.25(Mon) 20:35 Part III @Polepole Higashinakano theater

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