Synopsis:
Shanghai, a fast-changing metropolis, a port city where people come and go.
Shanghai has hosted all kinds of people – revolutionaries, capitalists, politicians, soldiers, artists, and gangsters.
Shanghai has also hosted revolutions, assassinations, love stories.
After the Chinese Communists’ victory in 1949, thousands of Shanghaiers left for Hong Kong and Taiwan. To leave meant being separated from home for thirty years; to stay meant suffering through the Cultural Revo...
The trailer of the EU Film Festival 2009, which showcased 26 films from 26 EU countries in November 2009 in Beijing, Chengdu (Sichuan province) and Nanjing (Jiangsu province).
Sponsored by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television of
PRC and Zhejiang Provincial People’s Government, organized by Hangzhou
Municipal People’s Government, Zhejiang Provincial Administration of
Radio and Television and Zhejiang Radio and Television Group, the 5th
China International Cartoon & Animation Festival (CICAF) will be
grandly held in beautiful Hangzhou from April 25 to May 3, 2009.
Director: Liu Zhihai.
Background: The Chinese government implemented family planning from 1970s,and the ‘illegal resident’ was one result of this policy – the person who cannot get his /her household registry with normal process by the relevant organization, such as the bastard, extra birth or who miss the household registry due to other reasons. In China, people will lose their legal identity and right of citizen if they don’t get their household registry, For example, they cannot go to school, marry or find a legal job. In addition, they cannot get a death certificate after pass away. Therefore, the offspring of ‘illegal resident’ are ‘illegal resident’ forever.
Outline: A Jiao was pregnant with the child of her and Weiqiang, a local man, although they had not got married. Unfortunately, one day Weiqiang died in an accident, and then their daughter A Qing was born. Because A Jiao and Weiqiang were not married, A Qing, as an illegal bastard, can not register household and become an ‘illegal resident’. In order to let A Qing could go to school like other children, A Jiao tried many ways to solve her household registry. However, all the replies were same, A Qing cannot register household just because her mother didn’t got the marriage certificate. With a strong desire to let A Qing could have a normal life, at last A Jiao married a local simpleton under the suggestion of the Police Station superintendent just to get a marriage certificate which can use to solve A Qing’s household registry.
The Meiwenti Shanghai Short Film Contest has been held twice a year since December 2005. The aim of the organizers is to create a independent film movement in a city that was once a powerhouse of cinema..