6-19 (Sun) 14:00-15:30 State of Play

6-19 (Sun) 16:00-17:00 Mother

6-19 (Sun) 18:00-19:30 The Rocking Sky

State of Play

Director: Steven Dhoedt

Genre: Documentary

Country: Korea

Runtime: 85 min.

Every year thousands of South-Koreans flock to one of the many game stadiums in Seoul to watch the Pro League Competition. Over there, during the time span of a regular football season, young South Koreans compete to the title of champion. To be the best in one single video game: Starcraft.

Mother

Director: Xu Huijing

Genre: Documentary

Country: China

Runtime: 68 min.

Zhang Qing-mei is a well-known psychic, who worships the “Goddess of Child-giving.” She is also the family planning chief of her village, located in Shanxi Province, China. In the village, there have been sterilization workshops for woman, once a year, for the past some years. However, this year, there will be two workshops, and a quota of14 woman must be sterilized. The problem is there are not that many women to sterilize. If the village officials are unable to meet this quota, they will be voted off the committee. Therefore, the officials have decided to implement a program: sterilize all the women who have been avoiding sterilization. Now, Rong-rong, an elementary school teacher, has found herself to be the primary target on their list. Ultimately, he captures Rong-rong, and she is forced to go through the sterilization procedure. Later Rong-rong laments, “I don’t want to be a woman in my next life.”

The Rocking Sky

Director: Zhang Zhaowei

Genre: Documentary

Country: China Taiwan

Runtime: 100 min.

In the early days of World War II, the Republic of China suffered immeasurably at the hands of invading Japanese forces. At that time, ROC only had 300 combat capable aircrafts, while the Japanese Air Force had over 2,000. Essentially, The Rocking Sky depicts not only the ROC pilots’ bravery but also mourns for the romance that was buried with the only thing worth fighting for at this darkest hour.

CNEX

CNEX is the short form of “Chinese Next” and “See Next.” It’s a non-profit foundation devoted to the production and promotion of documentaries of the Chinese people. CNEX strives to facilitate cultural exchange between China and the rest of the world through supporting documentaries depicting contemporary Chinese people of Chinese ethnicity, their living, and their society.

Beijing International Documentary Center (BIDC)

Established in 2013, the Beijing International Documentary Center (BIDC) is the first center in China for documentary and factual films sector. Strategic investors and partners of BIDC include China Television Artists Association, China National Documentary Film Group, Beijing Television Station, and RECREO Group.