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.


THREE CASTRATED GOATS 三个羯子 (2024) Directed by Ye Xingyu 叶星宇 (China) 
Program: Panorama of Chinese Film A rare comedy film capturing the absurd reality of rural China under the influence of Covid-19 pandemic back in 2022. Fei returns to his village from the city to sell goats. As pandemic breaks out in the city, Fei is trapped in the village. When volunteers come to do a PCR test, they notice one goat sneezing. Its escape into the village turns one man's quarantine into a complete farce.
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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.