The Chinese Independent Film Foundation (CIFF) is a
not-for-profit screen culture organisation dedicated
to showcasing new and old art-house Chinese-language
cinema across Australia. Founded in Narrm/Melbourne,
CIFF works with collaborators across mainland China,
Hong Kong and Taiwan to present films that
rarely receive theatrical release locally.


CHINESE AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILMS

A new wave of Chinese-Australian filmmakers are emerging as a bold generation of storytellers, eager to assert their place within both national and global cinema.

This program gathers seven award-winning shorts, previously screened at Festival de Cannes, Toronto International Film Festival, MIFF, BFI London and more. Featuring Australian diaspora filmmakers, alongside directors from Singapore and mainland China who have lived and worked in Australia, the selection traces the stories shaping contemporary Chinese-Australian screen culture.

The screening will be followed with a panel discussion with the filmmakers, moderated by curator and artist Nikki Lam.

FARAWAYS (2012), dir. Audrey Lam
WITHERED BLOSSOMS (2024), dir. Lionel Seah
A GENTLE NIGHT  (2017), dir. Qiu Yang
THE DANCING GIRL & THE BALLOON MAN (2023), dir. David Ma
BONG XI FA CAI (2024), dir. Johnathan Lo
TUI NA (2022), dir. William Duan
IDOL (2020), dir. Alex Wu

Where: ACMI, Fed Square
When: Thursday, March 26,  7.30pm

Tickets

Address: Elsewhere Books
Level 3, 139 Franklin Street, Melbourne

CIFF acknowledges the Traditional Owners of
the unceded land on which we work and create,
the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong
peoples, and the wider Kulin Nations.