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.


BEL AMI
漂亮朋友 (2024)  Directed by Geng Jun 耿军 (China) 
Program: Panorama of Chinese FilmIn a frozen town unwilling to stagnate, a middle-aged man meets true love and decides to come out of the closet. A lesbian couple decide to look for a gay man to marry and have a child. A restaurant owner wants to unite all the gays. Behind their fiery love stories is an absurd drama of identity politics. The ghost of communism often wanders around the lonely souls.

February, 2026

Past event.
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.