This year’s Spring Film Festival focuses on genre movies
CELEBRATE the coming Lunar by Lu Jiamin. The film is about New Year by watching one of a young Beijing student who the six featured films at the 11th left his home to work in Inner Spring Film Festival. Mongolia during China’s Cultural There are also other related Revolution. The film tells of his activities such as a Chinese painting life among the nomadic herdsmen exhibit, a Chinese music concert, and how he adopts wolf cub and Chinese pastel painting in an attempt to save it. The film workshop. was chosen as China’s foreignlanguage The festival — scheduled entry for the Academy from Jan. 25-29 at Cinema 4 of Awards in 2015. the Shangri- La Plaza Mall in A Complicated Story ( 2013), Mandaluyong City — was organized directed by Kiwi Chow, tells by Ateneo de Manila the story of a Hong Kong university University’s Ricardo Leong student in dire need of Center for Chinese Studies. The money who decides to take up six films (fewer than last year’s an offer to become a surrogate 10) were “chosen for Filipinos’ mother for an elite couple. After disposition towards [ genres the contract gets terminated such as] rom- com, family and abruptly, she refuses to give up comedy,” said the center’s director, the child and goes into hiding, Sidney Christopher T. Bata, until the child’s biological father during a press preview on Jan. finds her. 18 at the Shangri- La Cineplex, Book of Love (2016), also called Mandaluyong City. Finding Mr. Right 2 as it is director/writer Headlining the list of films is Xie Xiaolu’s follow-up Wolf Totem ( 2015) directed by to the 2013 film Finding Mr. Right, Jean-Jacques Annaud, an adaptation follows a casino hostess from Macau of a novel of the same name and a realtor based in Los Angeles
who cross paths and form a connection after stumbling upon the same book.
Everybody’s Fine ( 2016), directed by Zhang Meng, is the second remake of the 1990 Italian drama film of the same name. It tells the story of a widower who anticipated the annual summer visit of his four children, all of whom suddenly cancel — an action which prompts him to leave his house and visit them instead.
Horseplay (2014), directed by Lee Chi-ngai, is an action comedy where an entertainment journalist tracks down a notorious art thief called the Nine-Tailed Fox who then asks her for help in recovering a Tang Dynasty pottery horse while, at the same time, a detective is asking the journalist’s help in capturing the art thief.
Finally, there is Red Amnesia ( 2014) by Wang Xiaoshuai, a thriller about an elderly woman who insists on taking care of her two sons and her mother. Her routines center on the care of her family until it’s all thrown into disarray after she receives mysterious anonymous calls.
All of the films will be shown in DCP (Digital Cinema Package), according to Mr. Bata, in response to patrons “telling us to better our [film] quality.”
Aside from the six films which will be screened at the Shang Cineplex Cinema 4 of the Shangri-La Plaza Mall in Mandaluyong City, a Chinese painting exhibit at the mall’s grand atrium will run from Jan. 25-31 while a Chinese music concert is scheduled on Jan. 28 at 3 p.m. A Pastel Painting Workshop with Fidel Sarmiento, president of the Art Association of the Philippines, is slated on Jan. 29 at 1 p.m. Finally, a Chinese Dragon and Lion Dance performance is set on Feb. 5 at 2 p.m.
Admission to the film festival and other activities are free. For inquiries, call 370-2597 or 98 or visit faceboo k.com/sh anrilaplazaoffi —