All screenings are free but booking is recommended! All films are in English and Chinese with English subtitles. Introduction and post-film discussion for each night. You can also find information aobut the event by visiting thier website at: www.scot-china.org

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PROGRAMME

Friday 18 October 2002, 7.30pm
Introduction and post-film discussion by David Yip, Actor and Film Director.

Blue Funnel by Paul Mayeda Berges
(UK. 1990. 12)
With: David Yip, Anna Chan, Burt Kwouk
Daniel wants to send his father's ashes back to their ancestral village in China. Unable to recall its exact location, he inquires with relatives and friends only to realise that he knows neither his father nor his own sense of identity as well as he thought. A contemporary drama set in Liverpool's Chinese community, 'Blue Funnel' is a touching meditation on loss and a subtle observation of the Asian Diaspora. It reveals the gap between first- and second-generation British Chinese and captures the cultural dislocation typical of growing up in another world.

Chinese Whispers by David Yip
(UK. 10 min. 12)
Images of the present and past collide to send an urgent message to the city of Liverpool that it acknowledge the history and presence of the city's Chinese population.

Ping Pong by Po Chih Leong
(UK. 1987. 100 min. 12. Courtesy of Film Four/Channel 4)
With: David Yip, Lucy Sheen, Lam Fung, Robert Lee, Alan Wong, Victoria Wicks, Rex Wei and Phillip Voon. Law student Elaine Choi becomes a "Ping Pong Diplomat," bouncing between modern family relationships and traditional Chinese customs, in an effort to discover the secrets of Sam Wong's enigmatic will.

Saturday 19 October, 7.30pm
Introduction by Jane Wong, Film Director, and Wing-Fai Leung, Liverpool School of Art and Design.

Dim Sum (A Little Bit of Heart) by Jane Wong
(UK. 2002. 38 min. 12)
Three Chinese women (Wah So, Marietta, and Linda) sit making dumplings in a Chinese grocery in Liverpool. The filmmaker, Jane Wong, also happens to be the daughter of Marietta and wants to understand what drives these women. The film travels with them; their struggles with language, their sacrifices and their values. What can the filmmaker and viewer take from these women?

Red by Rosa Fong
(UK. 1995. 26 min. 12)
With: Jennifer Lim, Tom Wu, Pik Sen Lim, Antuan.
Xiao Mei would do anything to leave her native China and go to London. She is even prepared to marry a stranger. But can one live with a husband who is obsessed with Elvis Presley, a mother-in-law who is a bit of a tyrant and inhibiting memories that are brought back by a child's toy? Can one stop seeing red and instead see life through rose-tinted spectacles?

Sour Sweet by Mike Newell
(UK. 1989. 110 min. 12)
With: Sylvia Chang, Danny Dun, Jodi Long, Soon-Teck Oh, William Chow, King Shih-chieh
After their wedding in Hong Kong, Lily and Chen arrive in London's Chinatown to begin building a life together in the West. Chen has finally raised enough capital to start his own business which takes off, and his family seems to have achieved the ideal of modern capitalist success. Soon however, Chen is caught up in a violent feud between rival Chinese gangs, each of which wants to muscle in on his lucrative outfit. The sobering social commentary of Mike Newell (the award-winning director of 'Four Weddings and a Funeral') meets with the airy charm of his romantic films to depict Chinese immigrant life in Margaret Thatcher's economically depressed England. Sour Sweet is based on a novel by Timothy Mo.

Saturday 26 October, 7.30pm
Introduction by Julian Ward, Edinburgh School of Asian Studies.

Journey by Robert Chiu
(UK. 2000. 5min. 12)
A short digital film created as part of a final piece of work for a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design. Images of the director from birth to present are intermingled with live footage of an actual journey. When combined with an orchestral soundtrack, this film portrays a powerful piece of personal history.

Man from China by Zhang Tielin
(UK. 1990. 45 min. 12)
With: Yang Ying Sheng, Marina Barker
A Chinese artist comes to England six months after the massacre in Tiananmen Square, but finds it hard to come to terms with leaving China, despite his English girlfriend's efforts to help him.

Foreign Moon by Zhang Zeming
(UK. 1995. 90 min. 12)
With: Vicky Chen Hsiao-Hsuen, Harrison Liu, Chen da Ming
Best Original Screenplay, Golden Horse Award (Taiwan Film Festival). Best Director, Zhu Hai Film Festival. Lan Lan, a young music student, dreams of a life of freedom in the West, but when she arrives in London on a music scholarship, she finds that her Chinese sponsor had hidden motives for her. She strikes out on her own and is befriended by Su Tong, an older Chinese man whose wife and son are waiting in China for a visa to join him, and Su Tong's flatmate, Deng Lin, a younger and more restless man. The friends go into business running an illegal takeaway from their tiny bed-sit apartment and it looks like they're going to make it, just so long as they all stick together. But when Su Tong and Lan Lan start to fall in love, the stakes become suddenly too high… Foreign Moon has been partly inspired by the experiences of writer/director Zhang Zeming, who is contemporary of film directors Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige.

Saturday 2 November 2002, 7.30pm – Taiwanese Night
Introduction by Song Hwee Lim, Leeds University Department of East Asian Studies.

Yellow Fever by Raymond Yeung
(UK. 1998. 26 min. 12)
With: Adrian Pang, Gerald Chew, Ivan Heng, Gordon Yeung
Audience Award, Madrid Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
What could be scarier than love? Loving another Asian! At least, that is, for the young Chinese British Anglophile in this wild romantic comedy. A love story set in 1990's London, 'Yellow Fever' follows the life of Monty, a gay Chinese Anglophile desperately seeking his "white knight." A chance encounter with his new Chinese neighbour, Jai Ming, turns Monty's Vivienne Westwood wardrobe upside down. Initially repulsed by the idea of being with his own kind, Monty experiences unfamiliar feelings of attraction followed by reactionary denial and a long-overdue look in the mirror at his own inferiority complex. A modern comedy with a dash of camp and a trace of glamour, YELLOW FEVER is an offbeat and witty portrayal of gay Chinese subculture in a European-dominated society. 'Provocative fun. Like Sex & The City, but with better wardrobe!'

The Wedding Banquet by Ang Lee
(Taiwan/USA. 1993. 106 min. 12)
With: Mitchell Lichtenstein, Jeanne Kuo Chang, Winston Chao, May Chin, Sihung Lung, Ah-Leh Gua
Winner of the Berlin Festival Golden Bear
A gay Taiwanese-American man is in a happy long term relationship in Manhattan, but his parents in Taiwan are always pressuring him to marry. His tenant, a young Chinese girl, needs to marry an American citizen to obtain her green card, so a deal is made. Complications arise when the joyous parents arrive for the wedding...

Saturday 9 November 2002, 7.30pm
Introduction Hannah Robinson, Film Director, Pamela So, Artist and Kevin Wong, Film writer

Lemon Crush by Shane O'Sullivan
(UK. 2002. 15 min. 12)
With: Tuyet Le, Carl Wu, Richard Ng.
A young Chinese waiter bumps into his high-school sweetheart on her way to a date with her French teacher. A nostalgic look back at first love, LEMON CRUSH was shot in London's Chinatown and features a cameo from Hong Kong comedian Richard Ng.

Night Swimmer by Hannah Robinson
(UK. 2000. 24 min. 18)
With: Ysé Tran, Adrian Pang, Rebecca Robinson, Bill Nash. Producer: Gill Parry
Now that they have moved from Malaysia to Glasgow, Emily and Kenneth Tan don't have sex anymore. But Emily's encounters in the changing rooms of the local swimming pool are about to change everything.

Peggy Su! by Frances Anne Solomon
(UK. 1996. 92 min. 12. Courtesy of BBC Films)
With: Jacqui Chan, Adrian Pang, Daphne Cheung, Glen Goei, Daniel York, Sukie Smith, Vince Pellegrino. Writer: Kevin Wong
A comedic look at Chinese migration to England during 1950's and '60's. Nineteen-year-old Peggy Su (Pamela Oei) scrambles to start a new life in Britain when news comes from the mainland announcing the imminent arrival of her father and would-be husband. With no time to waste, she tries to circumvent tradition and find a love match before her father arrives...

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