Chinese Documentary Festival Special Screenings

2023 Paris · France & Berlin · Germany

1st Chinese Documentary Festival · International Screening

In Pursuit of Light
Director: ZHANG Tongdao
86min, 2022

In the film, Lisa Lu talks about her life, career, and her ongoing process of dream pursuing inside the movie world. During this journey, she'll also bring out a couple more memorable Chinese filmmakers. Including one of the first Asian actress who has her own "star" on the Hollywood Boulevard, Anna May Wong; Minwei Li, who made a huge contribution to China by documenting the warfare; Chusheng Cai, one of the founders of Chinese feature film; and the world-famous martial artist, Bruce Lee.

The River in Me
Directors: KE Yongquan, YANG Zhichun, HE Yuan
98min, 2019

Stretching from the Tibetan Plateau to Shandong, and home to a third of Chinese people, the Yellow River is the cultural and environmental inheritance of 1.3 billion people in China.Traversing 700,000 square kilometers over 700 days, the filmmakers bring the stories of five people who crisscross the Yellow River to perform their art. At the center of the web is Su Yang, a contemporary artist and musician heavily influenced by the traditional work of Qin Opera, Shadow Puppetry, Hua'er, and Shaanbei Storytelling, and his exchange with traditional practitioners.

The China Documentary Festival was upgraded after the successful five sessions of the Beijing Documentary Week. In August 2023, four screenings were held in Paris and Berlin, showing two documentary works, In Pursuit of Light and The River in Me.

ACCE and Berlin NewGen, as the overseas executive team for the special screenings, aim to promote humanistic documentaries with universal values and foster multicultural exchanges through movies.