Global Times | February 01, 2012 21:35
By Wei Xi
Movie shoots from director Tan Tan
Bringing Chinese film to the world stage has long been one of the missions of China's movie-makers. While the Golden Globes didn't award The Flowers of War with best foreign language film, domestic film buffs can take heart knowing that the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has devoted a whole program to Chinese independent films. As the theme of this program, Hidden Histories, focuses on the unknown side of Chinese society, its entrants depict material that is not a focus in other Chinese films.
Zhang Yaxuan, who planned the first China Independent Film Festival,