2018.1.14 (Sun) 13:30-15:00 Still Tomorrow

2018.1.14 (Sun) 15:30-17:30 The Verse of Us

2018.1.14 (Sun) 18:30-20:00 Nezha

2018.1.15 (Mon) 19:00-22:00 The City of Exile

His Muse, His Lack of Possibilities

2018.1.16(Tue) 19:30-21:00 Orphan

Still Tomorrow

Director: Jian Fan

Cast: Yu Xiuhua, Zhou Jinxiang, Yu Wenhai, Yun Shiping

Genre: Documentary

Country: Mainland China

Language: Mandarin

Duration: 88 min

Awards: Nomination for Best Documentary of Goblet Awards at the 18^th Shanghai International Film Festival

This is a film that follows the life of the poet, Yu Xiuhua, suffering from cerebral palsy, whose poetry is renowned for its frank portrayals of body and desire, as she struggles to break free of her unhappy marriage and move into a room of her own.

The Verse of Us

Director: Wu Feiyue, Qin Xiaoyu

Cast: Chen Nianxi, Wu Xia, Wu Niaoniao, Lao Jing, Jikeayou

Genre: Documentary

Country: Mainland China

Language: Mandarin

Duration: 104 min

Awards: Nomination for Best Film Editing at the 52th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival

Nomination for Best Documentary at the 52th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival

Best Documentary of Golden Goblet Awards at the 18^th Shanghai International Film Festival

This film tells the story of a small embattled community—migrant poets—whose sober, lyrical poems reveal the dark underbelly of the “economic miracle” that is post-reform China.

Nezha

Director: Xiaofeng Li

Writers: Xiaofeng Li, Mu Wang, Yu Pan

Cast: Jiaqi Li, Haofei Li, Jin Chen, Peng Xin, Huan Li

Genre: Drama

Country: Mainland China

Duration: 98 min

Awards: Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 51^st Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival

Nomination for Best New Director at the 51^st Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival

Nomination for Best Film for the Asian New Talent Award at the 18^th Shanghai International Film Festival

Nomination for Best Screenplay for the Asian New Talent Award at the 18^th Shanghai International Film Festival

Nomination for Best Actress of Asia New Talent Awards at the 18^th Shanghai International Film Festival

Nomination for Best Documentary of New Currents Program at the 19^th Busan International Film Festival

When she is sixteen years old, transfer student Li Xiaolu meets class favorite Wang Xiaobing, and the two become best friends. Together, the two read books by Sanmao and explore Bao City—their favorite spots, the orchard and riverbank. However, over time, they grow apart and stop talking. The summer after high school graduation, however, Xiaobing comes to see Xiaolu—a reunion that recalls the day they met.

The City of Exile + Director Q&A

Director: Lü Meijing

Screenwriter: Lü Meijing

Cast: Xichuan, Tang Xiaodu, Wen Xin, Liang Hong, Wu Sijing, Li Ying

Genre: Documentary

Produced in: China

Language: Mandarin

Duration: 69 minutes

The City of Exile is the first documentary produced in Mainland China about the poet Gu Cheng, including interviews with the poets Yang Lian, Mangke, Xichuan, literary theorists Xie Mian and Tang Xiaodu, novelist Youyou, photographer Xiao Quan, curator Song Xinyu, editor Rong Tingjin, and more. The film takes the viewer to New Zealand’s Waiheke Island, ando the wooden hut in which Gu spent the final years of his life, as well as sites where he had poetry readings, like the Purple Bamboo Park, Yuyuantan Park, the Old Summer Palace. It also returns to Dongsi Shitiao, once the editorial headquarters of Today, the literary magazine, founded in 1978, that catapulted Bei Dao and the Misty Poets to fame. The documentary will also include previously unreleased supplementary material, such as photos, drafts, sound recordings. The actor Lü Yu provides narration.

His Muse, His Lack of Possibilities + Director Q&A

Director: Liu Kuan

Vice-director: Wang Ximin

Cast: Martin Walser, Huang Liaoyu

Genre: Documentary/Biography

Country: Mainland China

Language: German/Mandarin

Duration: 38 minutes

Martin Walser’s literary and popular reputation remains undiminished in Germany. Named the best known German public figure besides Pope Benedict XVI by the media, Walser is considered one of the three great German post-war regionalist writers, alongside Nobel laureates Heinrich Boll and Gunter Grass. He is the author of over twenty novels, the recipient of more than thirty literary awards, including the Georg Büchner Prize, the most important literary prize for authors writing in German, as well as the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. Through interviews with authors, translators, critics, ordinary readers, and Walser himself, this film takes viewers on a cross-cultural journey of literary influence.

Orphan

Director: Chen Jiapin

Country: China

Language: Mandarin

Language: Mandarin

Duration: 88 minutes

At daybreak, a priest reads in an orphanage. When the sun rises, the townspeople hold a funeral. In the autumn fog, a new church is being constructed. Insects, cats, dogs, orphans, townspeople attending services, all seek comfort. In the night, the priest, exhausted after a day of writing, falls asleep. Between reality and illusion, he arrives at a graveyard, exchanging glances with an old, dying person. The seasons change: rainy days, winter snows. The new church is built, and the towns people have the biggest celebration of the year—Christmas. The orphans, too, celebrate, gathered together over their meal in hushed silence, as if waiting for a theophany.

Owspace

Owspace, formerly known as One Way Street, is an independent bookstore known among the literary, academic and art worlds for its high-quality, hand-picked book selection, as well as the thousands of cultural salons it has organized in the last ten years, which take the form of lectures, seminars, charitable art sales, concerts, screenings, plays, and more. Owspace is also a content production company, offering the latest in youth intellectual culture through affiliated publications like the Owspace magazine, the Owspace app, the Owspace WeChat platform, and other programs.

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