Chinese director Zhang Yang will team up with lead actors Sun Haiying and Chen Chong to meet an audience on Wednesday afternoon at the China Youth Theater to promote his latest film Sunflower.
This film took home Best Director and Best Photography Silver Shell awards at the San-Sebastian film festival in Spain last month. It was the second time Zhang has won a Silver Shell. He received his first one in 1999.
The award-winning film will open to Chinese audiences from 18th October.
Sunflower tells the story of a family set against thirty years of Chinese history.
It starts in the last year of the Cultural Revolution (1976), when the little 9-year-old Xiangyang reencounters the father he can't remember - a father who has spent the last six years of his life in a labor camp. During this time Xiangyang has grown fond of his independence, of playing with other children and roaming the streets of Beijing. But his father decides to make up for lost time, and the happy-go-lucky boy starts sensing that the fun is about to end.
(CRI October 10, 2005)
