According to the Palm Springs International Film festival, the reason why the China Film Group has pulled two films from the fest (which got under way Tuesday) is to protest the showing of Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s pro-Tibet doc The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom (trailer on jump). So China pulled the horrific Nanking film The City of Life and Death, which scored with audiences and critics at September’s Toronto Film Fest; National Geographic Films is set to release it in March. The film’s director, Lu Chuan, told the Hollywood Reporter that China is protesting the fest’s inclusion of a film about the Dalai Lama. China also pulled a second film, Ye Kai’s short Quick Quick Slow Slow. This is not the first time China has interfered with its filmmakers showing their work abroad.
- 1/6/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
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