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.


THE LAST EMPEROR
末代皇帝 (1987)  Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy) 
Program: Once Upon A Time In 華語 CinemaTracing the life of Aisin-Gioro Puyi 愛新覺羅·溥儀, China’s final Qing dynasty monarch, this sweeping epic unfolds through memories of imperial splendour and the stark realities of Communist re-education. Moving between the gilded confines of the Forbidden City and a rapidly transforming nation, the film spans more than half a century of upheaval and reinvention. Monumental in scale yet intimate in psychological detail, it becomes a meditation on identity, privilege and loss — a universal portrait of humanity caught between memory and modernity.
Sunday, April 5, 2pm

ACMI (Melb) 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.