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Series looking at aspects of life in modern China gives an intimate view of the pressurised life of Liu Wei as he attempts to balance work and life commitments.
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How much freedom can there be in a marriage? How much freedom can there be in a Chinese marriage? Long and Jun get married when the two find out that she is pregnant. She wants to have her child (only one is allowed under the Chinese policy) and Long agrees to become a parent, too. But the two of them still have to acquire doctorates in order to be able to teach in a Chinese university. (Storyville)
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On the first day of spring term, directors Guo Jing and Ke Dingding began to film the lives of three 11-year-olds and their class in Shanghai Experimental Primary School. Focusing on the challenges of growing up, the film captures the flirting, fighting, showing off and anguish of children on the cusp of adolescence, and gives an insight into the formation of a new generation of Chinese children.
Assassin
Condenados por una bruja traidora a permanecer en muerte aparente para la eternidad, el despiadado emperador chino Dragón y sus diez mil guerreros han esperado en su amplia tumba de barro, olvidados de todos, durante cientos de años, cual ejército de terracota. Pero cuando el joven aventurero y arqueólogo Alex O'Connel es engañado para que despierte de su sueño eterno al temible gobernante, no le queda más remedio que pedir ayuda a las únicas personas que saben más que él acerca de los no muertos: sus padres.
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Documentary looking at Shanghai Circus school, where the gruelling training regimes result in some of the best acrobats and circus performers in the world. Children as young as eight have their unformed bodies stretched and tested to breaking point as they learn to master the most taxing feats of acrobatic grace and daring. Harsh demands are also made of teachers and parents as their proteges strive to be number one in the circus, the Chinese way. (Storyville)
