23 oktober – 20:30
CHINESE ART FILM FESTIVAL – The Road Not Taken
A film by Tang Gaopeng
Opening Night – Chinese Art Film Festival
19.00 Opening and Welcome Drink
20.30 The Road Not Taken
An indebted ostrich farmer, an unidentified boy and a female trucker cross their path in Western China. For three days and two nights, the trio with vastly different personalities briefly forms a family group to cross the Gobi desert on one of the many roads not taken. The film is Director Tang Gaopeng’s debut feature film. It won the Best Picture Award at the 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival’s Asian New Talent Competition.
Film introduction and contextualization by Olivier Meys, Belgian Director