KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 7 (NNN-XINHUA) – Malaysian audiences will get to experience 100 years of Chinese filmmaking, during an upcoming film festival, which will be held here from Sept 15 to Sept 18, the China Cultural Centre in Kuala Lumpur announced yesterday.
With the theme of “China Film Centennial – The Inheritance of Films,” the festival will feature a total of 18 outstanding Chinese productions in recent years, restored classic films and two local Malaysian films, it said in a statement.
“This film festival also portrays major cinematic achievements of the Chinese film industry and showcases the great potential of collaboration between Chinese and Malaysian filmmakers. It is hoped that film can be the special medium that pulls together Chinese and Malaysian talents, and continue to use this medium to tell great stories and forge new friendships,” Zhang Jiexin, the centre’s director, said.
Film exchange between China and Malaysia spans over a century. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the earliest Chinese silent film available today. The silent film, ‘New Friend,’ produced in 1927, is also the first Chinese silent film shot entirely in Singapore and Malaya.
Some of the Chinese films to be screened include Cliff Walkers, Hi, Mom, A Writer’s Odyssey, Leap, and The Wandering Earth.
Chinese-Malaysian co-productions include On Your Mark and Three Adventures of Brooke; animation Boonie Bears: Back to Earth and White Snake, while restored films from the 1920s to the 1960s include Labourer’s Love and Uproar in Heaven, and the documentary The Great Learning, as well as, the Chinese opera, White Snake, are also listed.
This year’s festival is a collaborative effort brought to audiences by the China Film Archive, entrusted by China Film Administration, in partnership with the China Cultural Centre in Kuala Lumpur and the Chinese Film Association of Malaysia.– NNN-XINHUA
