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.


REPUBLIC
我们的共和国 (2023)  
Directed by Jin Jiang 晋江 (China)
Program: Panorama of Chinese Film + Q&A at Elsewhere BooksChinese hippie Eryang lives out his own version of communism in REPUBLIC, his six-square-meter apartment where young Beijing misfits hang about. Time comes to a halt for the drug-addled adolescents in this cluttered room, somewhere between psychedelic utopia and claustrophobic hell, dream and reality. Jin Jiang’s camera remains unobtrusive, an impressive achievement in such a cramped, swarming mess, as Eryang and his visitors wax poetic in a verbal cocktail of political philosophy and internet babble.  
August, 2025

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.