New Generation-Independent Filmmakers
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Cube Magic and Cinéphilia West are delighted to host an event spread across four evenings, New Generation: Contemporary Independent Chinese Film. It is a showcase of some of the latest and most innovative and exciting films made by young generation Chinese filmmakers. In a series of four screenings: documentaries, animations, fictions and experimental videos, this event presents a new vision of contemporary China, under the themes of ‘Absurdity and Reality’, ‘Lost in ‘Now? – dream, memory and fantasy’, ‘Merging Fiction and Documentary?’, and ‘Searching for Identity ‘.
Most of the young film talents were born and grew up in post-socialist China, and they take a more personal and even first-person approach representing Chinese social reality. Among the showcased films, many are highlights from the Chongqing Independent Film and Video Festival, China (CIFVF).
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