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.


TO LIVE 活著 (1994)  Directed by Zhang Yimou 張藝謀 (China) 
Program: Panorama of Chinese Film An adaption of Yu Hua 余華’s sweeping novel into an intimate epic of survival, tracing one family’s fate across decades of political upheaval. Led by a luminous performance from Gong Li 鞏俐, alongside Ge You 葛優, the film balances wry humour and devastating loss with emotional clarity and visual splendour. A landmark of Fifth Generation cinema and a deeply human portrait of endurance in the face of history.
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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.