Tired of predictable movies and endings?
Join the rest of the foreign movie buffs as we all look forward to the 8th Spring Film Festival on January 24 – February 2, 2014 at the Shangri-La Plaza Mall.
The Spring Festival is one of the most celebrated festivals in the Chinese-Filipino community. For the past eight years, the Ateneo de Manila University Ricardo Leong Center for Chinese Studies and the Ateneo Celadon have brought the joys and artistry of the culture of Chinese films to the Philippines through the annual Spring Film Festival.
Over the years, the festival simultaneously have held in Metro Manila, Cebu and Davao, with the recent addition of Ilo-Ilo and Cagayan de Oro last year. On the 8th Spring Film Festival, people from Naga, Dagupan, and Baguio can also experience the artistry of Chinese movies showing eight (8) Chinese films.
Admission is free.
Here are the list of the movies to be shown on the 8th Spring Film Festival:
May, a singer from mainland China, suddenly lost her voice and had conflicts with Ah Lei, her producer and secret lover. In anger, she came to Old Town of Jingtong where she met Xiao Mo, a warmhearted man. Xiao Mo helped May find a dwelling place, and introduced her to work at a local restaurant. Thanks to their constant contacts, they made a good impression with each other. May found happiness and consolation from the old streets of the small town, and her voice was getting better and better. However, May had left her heart at another place. Gradually, Xiao Mo understood that when one deliberately disappears, one wants to be looked for by others. Along with a sudden appearance of Jack, a muckraking journalist, the situation began to develop towards the uncontrolled direction.
He Zhipeng is a senior student in high school who lives in a big old Beijing hutong yard with his mother and grandmother. He loves parkour, an extremely dangerous sport in most people’s eyes. With his good psychology and physique, he becomes the star player of “City Monkey” parkour club. But his mother strongly disapproves it and hopes he could focus only on his entrance exams to university. Clashes of different concepts, rebellion of the youth, and persistence to the ideal are unavoidable problems for them. What would the two generations do?
