Doc-China Festival Screening Programme (19/11)

Doc-China Festival screening programme initiated by Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China and China Global Television Network has been rolling out globally since June 2022. China Cultural Centre in Sydney is part of this programme and will project 8 selected documentaries, Beyond the Mountains: Life in Xinjiang, Sanxingdui: Rediscovering a Lost Civilisation, Facing the Flood, My New Year, Princess of the Beavers, No Child Left Behind, Foodwise：Quanzhou, Fujian Puppetry, China Untapped: Changsha. This programme will tell vivid stories about the Chinese people building their beautiful homeland, present an old-and-modern and booming China, enhance people-to-people exchange and promote exchange and cooperation in film and television between China and Australia.

Beyond the Mountains: Life in Xinjiang
Time: 10:00am-11:20am (80min)
The main roles in the documentary are the ordinary people in Xinjiang. They are student, textile mill worker, cotton farmer, winery manager, coffee shop owner and musician and so on. Everyone is a facet of the diamond of Xinjiang and reflects the colourful daily life in Xianjiang.

China Untapped: Changsha
Time: 14:00 pm-14:30 pm (30min)
This documentary presents the cultural and tourism resources of Changsha City through several lively urban stories, highlighting the mutually reinforcing relationship between the people and the city.

Facing the Flood
Time: 14:45 pm-15:15 pm (30min)
The period from June to August marks the rainy season in China. But this year's rain was extraordinary. Relentless rain caused severe flooding in many parts of China like in Anhui Province. The documentary is about two stories, one is about Say Xiangyu and Wang Sisi, rescue volunteers, who risked their lives to save stranded residents; the other is about villagers who sacrificed their farmland to prevent other areas from being flooded.

My New Year
Time: 16:00 pm-17:00 pm (60min)
This story recording Kyila’s 14 days of the Tibetan New Year, not only shows a Tibetan cultural celebration to the audience, but also keeps a New Year dairy of the true life for Kyila, a blind Tibetan lady. In this programme, there is no narration or voice-over, but just people’s real life dialogue and monologue to tell a true story of Kyila. Six years ago, when Kyila was 23, she established Tibet’s first blind kindergarten, only for blind kids. She herself got education until she was 12.Before that she was just hidden at home doing nothing. Education revealed a new world to her. She’d got the chance to learn English in Braille Without Borders in Lhasa. Now she can speak fluent English and has got experience to manage special schools for blind kids. She said she found that she was slow in reading with Braille, as she began to study Braille too late, so she believes that early stage education is very keen for kids, which is one of the most important reasons for her to establish a kindergarten for the blind. She was facing double discrimination: one is for being a woman, and one is for being disabled. Now she can realize her own dream, and her experience can absolutely inspire other women to pursuit their own dreams.