Chinese Visual Festival 2018

Don't miss the 2018 edition of the excellent

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To view the full schedule and bookyour  tickets, please visit the CVF website:
http://chinesevisualfestival.org/chinese-visual-festival-2018/2018-programme/.

This year's highlights include:

• Festival opens with Zhou Ziyang's award-winning Old Beast and closes with the UK Premiere of the Taiwanese LGBTQ hit Alifu, The Prince/ss

• 12 European and UK premières from the Chinese language speaking world, including the UK première of Wang Bing's award-winning documentary Mrs. Fang

• Guests include acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Cheung King-wai presenting the UK Premiere of his latest work Somewhere Beyond the Mist, Hong Kong Fresh Waves filmmakers, and more

• Special sessions focusing on LGBTQ cinema, including queer filmmaker Kit Hung in conversation

• UK premières of two challenging documentaries on aging, dementia and death - of special interest to people involved in the Medical and Health Humanities: Please Remember Me 我只认识你, dir. Zhao Qing 2015; and Mrs Fang 方绣英, dir. Wang Bing, winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno

• Full-day international conference on 'Critical Voices; Critical Silences: Chinese and Sinophone Film Theory and Criticism'.

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