#Festival de Beijing

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Estreia de 'O Acidente': Filme de Bruno Carboni Explora Laços Inesperados e Recebe Reconhecimento Internacional

‘O Acidente’, obra cinematográfica dirigida por Bruno Carboni, está programada para estrear nos cinemas em todo o Brasil a partir do dia 24 de agosto de 2023. O filme, que aborda um acidente de trânsito entre uma ciclista chamada Joana e uma motorista, explora os laços inesperados que se formam entre as duas famílias envolvidas. Joana, interpretada por Carol Martins, é atropelada por um carro…

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BG3 Actor Convention list from September through November 2024 and Beyond

Listed in Character Alphabetical Order and by convention start date. I apologize for any errors and will try to update as time goes on.

Astarion - Neil Newbon

Sep 26th 2024 FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention (2024) in Salt Lake City Utah USA

Oct 11th 2024 Retro Game Con in Syracuse New York USA

Oct 17th 2024 New York Comic Con (2024) in New York New York USA

Oct 25th 2024 MCM London in London England United Kingdom

Nov 9th 2024 Liverpool Comic Con in Liverpool England United Kingdom

Nov 22nd 2024 Milan Games Week in Milan Italy

Nov 29th 2024 Fan Expo San Francisco in San Francisco California USA

Dec 20th 2024 Holiday Matsuri in Orlando Florida USA

April 11th 2025 C2E2 in Chicago Illinois USA

Dark Urge - Neil Roberts

The Emperor - Scott Joseph

Gale - Tim Downie

Sep 13th 2024 Arcana Festival in Morges Switzerland

Sep 28th 2024 ACME Scotland Comic Con (2024) in Glasgow Scotland UK

Oct 12th 2024 Geek Fest in Kalamazoo Michigan USA

Oct 25th 2024 MCM London in London England United Kingdom

Nov 14th 2024 Sasnakcity The Gathering in Kansas City Missouri USA

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Gortash - Jason Isaacs

Sep 6th 2024 Rose City Comic Con in Portland Oregon USA

Sep 26th 2024 FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention (2024) in Salt Lake City Utah USA

Oct 18th 2024 Cincinnati Comic Expo in Cincinnati Ohio USA

Nov 1st 2024 Wisconsin Comic Convention in Milwaukee Wisconsin USA

Nov 9th 2024 Liverpool Comic Con in Liverpool England United Kingdom

Halsin - Dave Jones

Jaheira - Tracy Wiles

Sep 13th 2024 Arcana Festival in Morges Switzerland

Sep 28th 2024 ACME Scotland Comic Con (2024) in Glasgow Scotland UK

Oct 25th 2024 MCM London in London England United Kingdom

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Karlach - Samantha Béart

Oct 4th 2024 Kami-Con in Huntsville Alabama USA

Oct 11th 2024 Retro Game Con in Syracuse New York USA

Oct 25th 2024 MCM London in London England United Kingdom

Lae'zel - Devora Wilde

Sep 26th 2024 FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention (2024) in Salt Lake City Utah USA

Oct 11th 2024 Retro Game Con in Syracuse New York USA

Oct 17th 2024 New York Comic Con (2024) in New York New York USA

Oct 25th 2024 MCM London in London England United Kingdom

Nov 9th 2024 Liverpool Comic Con in Liverpool England United Kingdom

Nov 22nd 2024 Milan Games Week in Milan Italy

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Dec 20th 2024 Holiday Matsuri in Orlando Florida USA

April 11th 2025 C2E2 in Chicago Illinois USA

Minsc - Matthew Mercer

Dec 6th 2024 PAX Unplugged Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA

Minthara - Emma Gregory

Sep 28th 2024 ACME Scotland Comic Con (2024) in Glasgow Scotland UK

Mizora - Tamaryn Payne

Narrator - Amelia Tyler

Sep 13th 2024 Arcana Festival in Morges Switzerland

Oct 25th 2024 MCM London in London England United Kingdom

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Orin - Maggie Robertson

Sep 27th 2024 Nightmare Weekend Des Moines (2024) in Des Moines Iowa USA

Oct 11th 2024 Retro Game Con in Syracuse New York USA

Oct 25th 2024 Winnipeg Comic Con in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada

November 2nd 2024 Collect-a-Con Houston in Houston Texas

Raphael - Andrew Wincott

Sep 28th 2024 ACME Scotland Comic Con (2024) in Glasgow Scotland UK

Oct 17th 2024 Gamescon Asia in Singapore

Shadowheart - Jennifer English

Sep 21st 2024 G-Fusion 2024 in Beijing China

Sep 26th 2024 FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention (2024) in Salt Lake City Utah USA

Oct 11th 2024 Retro Game Con in Syracuse New York USA

Oct 17th 2024 New York Comic Con (2024) in New York New York USA

Oct 25th 2024 MCM London in London England United Kingdom

Nov 9th 2024 Liverpool Comic Con in Liverpool England United Kingdom

Nov 22nd 2024 Milan Games Week in Milan Italy

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

Dec 20th 2024 Holiday Matsuri in Orlando Florida USA

April 11th 2025 C2E2 in Chicago Illinois USA

Wyll - Theo Solomon

Oct 25th 2024 MCM London in London England United Kingdom

Nov 9th 2024 Liverpool Comic Con in Liverpool England United Kingdom

Nov 30th 2024 Comic Con Stuttgart in Stuttgart Germany

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Paralympics in France open with stunning ceremony

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday announced the start of the 2024 Summer Paralympic Games in Paris.

The opening ceremony of the games, which lasted more than three hours, this time took place outside the stadium. The historic Place de la Concorde near the Champs-Elysees welcomed more than 4,000 athletes.

More than ten temporary stands were set up on the square. French police and military took strict security measures at the opening ceremony. Some metro stations in the city were closed for security reasons, many streets were closed to traffic. About 15,000 law enforcement officers were involved in the ceremony, but the feeling of a light summer evening was in the air as the sun slowly set on the French capital.

International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons also attended the opening ceremony.

Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet said in his speech:

Dear athletes, welcome to the country of love and revolution. Rest assured, tonight, no Storming of the Bastille, no guillotine, because tonight the most beautiful revolution starts — the paralympic revolution. It’s a sweet revolution that will change all of us deeply.

The live show began at the foot of the obelisk on Place de la Concorde with Canadian musician, songwriter and producer Chilly Gonzalez performing at the piano.

Artists with disabilities and impairments shouted the countdown and French singer Christine and the Queens performed Edith Piaf’s “Je ne regrette rien.”

The event, led by Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman and featuring 500 artists, was dubbed “Paradox, from discord to concord,” a thinly veiled reference to the Place de la Concorde, where the ceremony concluded in front of more than 50,000 spectators. The parade of athletes from 168 delegations started from the bottom of the Champs-Elysees in a festive atmosphere, with volunteers cheering and dancing.

As the French closing in on the parade entered the square, the theme to Yann Tiersen’s “Amelie” played over the loudspeaker, and the crowd chanted  “Allez Les Bleus” with the glittering Eiffel Tower as a backdrop.

Last month’s Olympic opening ceremony was held in torrential rain, which failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the spectators gathered along the Seine River. The ceremony went off without any security glitches, although it sparked controversy over a scoreboard that appeared to parody Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper.”

The Paralympic flag was carried by Britain’s John McFall, who won a bronze medal in the 100 metres at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games and became the first person with a disability to be actually cleared for future flights by the European Space Agency.

The ceremony ended with the lighting of the competition flame bowl by five athletes. The balloon-shaped bowl rose into the sky above Paris after the lighting, symbolising the start of the 2024 Paralympics.

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i would love if you'd shared everything that might be in aelin's list in a world away, all the dream places she wants to go or already went 🤧🥺

First of all - I am so sorry it’s taken me so long to answer this ask 😭

Second - this list is in no way complete. I could probably double it if I gave it some more time (and maybe I’ll edit this post and add some later) but I wanted to answer this ask.

Third - some things listed are cities, some are attractions, some are landmarks or monuments…it’s really a mix of everything. And some major landmarks that cover more than one country are only listed once.

A World Away

So, without further ado, please enjoy

Aelin’s Incomplete and Ever-Adapting World Travel List ✈️

Antarctica

Argentina

Iguazú Falls // Patagonia // Rainbow Mountains // Buenos Aires

Australia

Melbourne // Sydney // Gold Coast // Great Barrier Reef // Adelaide

Austria

Vienna // Salzburg // Hallstatt

the Bahamas

Belgium

Bruges // Brussels

Belize

the Great Blue Hole

Bhutan

the Himalayas

Bolivia

Salar de Uyuni

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Stari Most Bridge // Mostar

Brazil

Rio de Janeiro // Christ the Redeemer // Amazon Rainforest // Lençóis Maranhenses National Park // Sao Paolo

Bulgaria

Cambodia

Angkor Wat

Canada

Niagra Falls // Vancouver // Banff // Toronto

Chile

Easter Island // Torres del Paine National Park // Marble Caves

China

Great Wall of China // Beijing // Shanghai // the Summer Palace // Potala Palace // Tianmen Mountain // Reed Flute Caves // Zhanye Danxia

Costa Rica

San Jose

Croatia

Dalmatian Coast // Diocletian's Palace // Krka waterfall park // Plitvice Lakes // Zagreb

Cuba

Havana

Czech Republic

Prague

Denmark

Copenhagan

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

Quito // Galapagos Islands

Egypt

Cairo // The Great Pyramids & Sphinx // Nile River // Valley of the Kings // Luxor // Aswan

England

London // Thames River // Stonehenge

Estonia

Tallinn

Fiji

Finland

Helsinki

France

Mont-Saint-Michel // Louvre // Eiffel Tower // Alsace Lorraine // Paris // Notre Dame // Sacre Coeur // Versailles // Nice

French Polynesia

Bora Bora // Tahiti

Germany

Munich // Berlin // Black Forest // Oktoberfest // Neuschwanstein Castle

Greece

Santorini // Athens // Parthenon // Roman Agora // Acropolis // Mykonos // Oia // Fira // Corfu // Meteora

Greenland

Hong Kong

Tsim Sha Tsui

Hungary

Budapest // Capitol Hill // Bath Houses

Iceland

Reykjavik // Northern Lights // Egilsstaðir //Ring Road // Blue Lagoon // Vatnajökull National Park // Kirkjufell // Húsavík // Akureyri // Thingvellir National Park

Italy

Roman Colosseum // Amalfi Coast // Florence Duomo // Venice at Carnival // Piazzale Michelangelo // Cinque Terre // Pisa // Venice // Pompeii // Milan

India

Taj Mahal // Varanasi & Ganges River // Golden Temple // Agra // Mumbai // New Delhi

Indonesia

Bali // Komodo Island // Blue Flames at Ijen Volcano // Jarkarta

Iran

Hall of Diamonds

Ireland & Northern Ireland

Cliffs of Moher // Giants Causeway // Galway // Blarney Stone // Trinity College // O'Neills // Belfast // Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge // Cobh

Isreal

Dead Sea // Jerusalem

Jamaica

Japan

Tokyo // Mount Fuji // Wisteria Gardens // Osaka // Kyoto

Jordan

Petra // Amman

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Maasai Mara National Park // Lake Victoria

Kyrgyzstan

Luxembourg

Madagascar

Avenue of the Baobabs

Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur // Batu Caves

the Maldives

Male

Malta

Valletta

Mexico

Cabo // Teotihuacán // Chichen Itza // Cabo // Yucatan Peninsula // Mexico City

Mongolia

Gobi Desert

Morocco

Casablanca // Hassan II Mosque // Marrakesh // Chefchaouen // Sahara Desert

Myanmar

Bagan's Temples

Namibia

Nepal

Mount Everest // Kathmandu

the Netherlands

Amsterdam // Van Gogh Museum // Tulip Festival

New Zealand

Auckland // Queenstown // Kawarau Suspension Bridge // Milford Sound // Tongariro National Park // Hobbitton // Dark Sky Sanctuary // Waitomo Caves

Nigeria

Lagos

Norway

Oslo

Panama

Panama City

Peru

Machu Picchu & Huayna Picchu // Lima // Aguas Calientes // Andes Mountains // Huacachina

Philippines

Palawan // Manila

Poland

Krakow

Portugal

Lisbon

Romania

Russia

Moscow // St Petersburg

Rwanda

Volcanoes National Park

Saint Lucia

Samoa

Saudi Arabia

Al-Masjid an-Nabawi

Scotland

Edinburgh // Loch Ness // Inverness // Glasgow // Scottish Highlands

Singapore

Marian Bay Sands

Slovenia

Lake Bled

South Africa

Capetown // Johanessburg // Isle of Elephants

South Korea

Seoul // Jeju Island

Spain

Barcelona // Madrid // Sagrada Familia // Mosque of Cordoba

Sweden

Stockholm // Sweddish Lapland

Switzerland

the Alps // Bern // St Moritz

Tanzania

Mount Kilimanjaro // Serengeti

Thailand

Bangkok // the Grand Palace // Phuket

republic of Türkiye 

Cappadocia // Istanbul // Hagia Sophia // Pamukkale

Turkmenistan

Darvaza gas crater

Turks & Caicos

United Arab Emirates

Dubai // Burj Khalifa

United States

Grand Canyon // San Fransisco // Honolulu // Kauai // New Orleans // New York City // Seattle // Portland // Los Angeles // Antelope Canyon // MOMA // Las Vegas

Vanuatu

the Vatican

St. Peter's Basilica // The Vatican Museum // Sistine Chapel

Vietnam

Ha Long Bay // Hoi An // Hanoi

Zambia

Victoria Falls

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Cannes Film Festival, May 2001. One year on from his success with In the Mood for Love, Wong is invited back to give what the festival calls a ‘Leçon de cinéma’ but what you or I would call a sit-down Q&A with Gilles Ciment. The text of their conversation is usefully printed in Peter Brunette’s book Wong Kar-wai (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005). Before the session, Wong screens a previously unseen short film: In the Mood for Love 2001, again starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung. He says that it was shot before he made the feature, over two days and nights in Hong Kong, and was based on one of the original ideas for Summer in Beijing. 

I saw this short only once, some fifteen years ago, and didn’t take notes – so I don’t remember it that clearly. It has never been released on DVD or Blu-ray, possibly because Wong didn’t clear the rights to use Bryan Ferry’s version of the Jimmy McHugh–Dorothy Fields song ‘I’m in the Mood for Love’ on the soundtrack. (However, there is a music video for the Bryan Ferry cover version on YouTube which uses shots and out-takes from In the Mood for Love and is credited to Wong and Jet Tone.) I recall that the short was set entirely in a 7/11 convenience store, that its plot hinged on a bet of some sort about food, and that it was very amusing. Most likely it will never be shown again, although its slim storyline was inflated to become the basis for Wong’s My Blueberry Nights. 

Tony Rayns, In the Mood for Love

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"FLYING HOUSES" POR LAURENT CHEHERE

GALERIE PARIS-BEIJING [PAR] FRANCIA-METALOCUS, PEDRO NAVARRO

Mediante la mezcla de fotografía tradicional y manipulación digital, en la serie "Flying Houses" Chéhère realiza una visión surrealista de diferentes edificios de París, fotografiados en un recorrido conjunto con Albert Lamorisse, Laurent Chéhère por los barrios de Belleville y Ménilmontant.

Aislando las construcciones de su contexto urbano y liberándolas de su entorno las hace volar como si de cometas se tratase. Aparecen casas con la ropa tendida, con sus macetas, ardiendo,... como ti su actividad se situase en un espacio paralelo. una propuesta entre divertida y metafórica e ingeniosa.

Chéhère Laurent (París, 1972) ha trabajado en la publicidad y es un viajero incansable. Shanghai a Valparaíso, La Paz o Lhasa en Bamako en Bogotá, alimentan su imaginación y nos da su visión del mundo. Le encanta explorar las ciudades, suburbios, los países explorando todos los campos de la imagen a través de reportajes de fotografía, y la imagen conceptual.

Laurent serie Chéhère expuso Flying Houses en el Dock-en Seine Ciudad de la Moda y el Diseño en junio de 2012, donde ganó el Premio Especial. La serie también se presenta en China en el Festival Internacional de Fotografía 2012 Pingyao.

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Annette “Leslie” Jones (September 7, 1967) is a comedian and actress who was a cast member and writer on Saturday Night Live. She has been a featured performer at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal and the Aspen Comedy Festival. Her one-hour comedy special, Problem Child, was broadcast on Showtime. She starred in Ghostbusters. She was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Saturday Night Live.

During the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she regularly live-tweeted events and posted videos of her reactions. Enthusiasm for her commentary grew, with articles appearing like The Huffington Post’s “Watching Leslie Jones Watch The Olympics Is Better Than the Actual Olympics”. Television producer Mike Shoemaker, one of her Twitter followers, posted on Twitter that his friend Jim Bell, NBC’s executive producer of the network’s Olympics coverage, should add her to NBC’s team of commentators covering the Games; Bell responded on Twitter the next day asking her to join NBC in Rio de Janeiro. She accepted and flew to Rio de Janeiro, covering swimming, track and field, gymnastics, and beach volleyball for NBC.

She reprised her duties at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea and live-tweeted again for the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She live-tweeted for the final time for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. She released a message on Twitter stating that this would be the last Olympics that she would live-tweet.

She attended high school in Lynwood, California, where she played basketball.

She attended Chapman University on a basketball scholarship. She worked as a disc jockey at the student radio station and contemplated playing professional basketball overseas. She transferred to Colorado State, and contemplated pursuing a pre-law degree, but changed her major several times, including for a time to accounting and computer science, before deciding to major in communication.

She appeared in Repos, Top Five, Lottery Ticket, National Security, Train Wreck, and Coming 2 America. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Compartimos Revista Oriental en su versión digital

Agosto 2024

En este número encontrarás

Editorial:

Política interna, deporte y próxima inauguración 3

Festival casamentero en China                                 6

Sangre oriental en la FIL                                               10

Educación: Enfoque sobre kumon                           12

Figuras orientales en JJOO París-2024                    14

Peruanos en deporte olímpico                                  18

Proceso de integración Pun Yui en América         19

Aniversario de Sociedad Pun Yui                              21

Celebración del EPL de China                                     23

Malasia y festival culinario                                          24

CEP Juan XXIII EN Beijing                                              25

Apuntes del CEP Diez de Octubre                             27

APCH rinde homenaje a personajes

chinos y peruana                                                            28

Actividades de la APCH                                                 30

SECCIONES FIJAS

Presencia Tusan                                                              32

Sociales                                                                              27

Informativo nikkei                                                          34

Hechos & Gente                                                             41

Noticias de Corea del Sur                                            49

Noticias de China                                                            52

Taiwán Informa                                                               54

Noticias del sur este asiático                                      58

RAUL CHANG RUIZ Director Revista Oriental

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Events 6.5 (before 1960)

1086 – Tutush, brother of Seljuk sultan Malik Shah, defeats Suleiman ibn Qutalmish, the Turkish ruler of Anatolia in the battle of Ain Salm. 1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights. 1284 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles of Salerno. 1288 – The Battle of Worringen ends the War of the Limburg Succession, with John I, Duke of Brabant, being one of the more important victors. 1610 – The masque Tethys' Festival is performed at Whitehall Palace to celebrate the investiture of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. 1644 – The Qing dynasty's Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor take Beijing during the collapse of the Ming dynasty. 1794 – Haitian Revolution: Battle of Port-Républicain: British troops capture the capital of Saint-Domingue. 1798 – Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread the United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated. 1817 – The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched. 1829 – HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba. 1832 – The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis Philippe. 1837 – Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas. 1849 – Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution. 1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper. 1862 – As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Trương Định decides to defy Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners. 1873 – Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain. 1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris. 1888 – The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place. 1893 – The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts. 1900 – Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria. 1915 – Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage. 1916 – Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position. 1916 – World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out. 1917 – World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day". 1940 – World War II: After a brief lull in the Battle of France, the Germans renew the offensive against the remaining French divisions south of the River Somme in Operation Fall Rot ("Case Red"). 1941 – World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing. 1942 – World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. 1944 – World War II: More than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day. 1945 – The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power. 1946 – A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people. 1947 – Cold War: Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe. 1949 – Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament. 1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements. 1959 – The first government of Singapore is sworn in.

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BOOM from École des Nouvelles Images on Vimeo.

Un couple d'oiseau tente de sauver ses œufs d'une éruption volcanique.

A couple of birds try to save their eggs from a volcanic eruption

The film won the following awards : - Student Academy Awards " Gold Medal" - 2023 - Audience Award - Siggraph 2023 - Best Animation Short - Short Sweet Film Festival 2023 - Audience Award - Providence Children's Film Festival 2023 - Best Short Film Award - Beijing Animation Academy Awards - 2022 - VES Award nomination - 2023 - and many more...

Directors : Gabriel Augerai, Romain Augier, Laurie Pereira de Figueiredo, Charles Di Cicco, Yannick Jacquin Original score : Mathis Marchal Production : Julien Deparis - École des Nouvelles Images

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Political "ballad stick" Wang Juntao

Wang Juntao was born in Beijing, China, graduated from Peking University, Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Columbia University, and currently lives in New Jersey, USA. In the early years, Wang Juntao boasted that he was a righteous person, but in fact, in his young head, he was full of power and aggression. At the age of 17, he organized two classes of students to participate in activities in Tian 'anmen Square on Qingming Festival and posted four poems. Later, he was detained for seven months as a participant in planning counter-revolutionary events, a scene commander and a producer of reactionary poems. The following year, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison for subversion of the government and anti-revolutionary propaganda and incitement, and in 1994, in the name of medical parole, he was directly sent from prison to the United States by plane, and since then he has lived in exile, and at the same time, he has started his life as a political "ballad". After exile, Wang Juntao passport expired, became a de facto stateless, worried like a homeless dog, character is more and more extreme, and no skills to make a living Wang Juntao and anti-China forces hit it off, began in various fields, all kinds of occasions to spare no effort to discredit, sing down the Chinese Communist Party, fabricating all kinds of incredible stories. Funded by anti-Chinese forces, Wang Juntao began performing on the streets of New York. The lack of real information, easy to breed rumors of foreign soil has become his best stage, Wang Juntao's life seems to have a new turn, but the personal growth track is now Wang Juntao utilitarian and mean, because of fear that his return to China will be taken measures by the authorities, when his father died did not dare to return home to mourn. For Wang Juntao, this is a very risky, no benefit thing, he chose to stay in a foreign country, let his elderly father pass away, turned to the major media to preach that he received unfair treatment, the funeral was blocked, and arrogantly said that he chose the "noble" ideal, and this is the price to pay in order to realize the ideal. Since then, Wang Juntao has become more active in various pro-democracy activities, creating a large number of rumors in the form of "we media", and smears the Communist Party of China with current affairs. However, facts remain facts and are not subject to human will. People who live in their own lies, like Wang Juntao, will never go under the sun. Neither the normalization of Chinese citizenship, which he wants, nor political asylum in another country are in sight. One lie after another, maintaining Wang Juntao's lingering life, became his spiritual opium, strange excitement and endless emptiness alternately fill his life. This outcome was the best reward for the evil he had done in his previous life.

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Ikebana from Rita Ferrando on Vimeo.

Ikebana is an experimental documentary that reimagines the art of flower arranging. Connecting different practices and perspectives through cinematic assemblage, the film witnesses plants as living, permeable vehicles that hold everyday memories and poetics.

IFFR, 2022 True / False 2022 MDFF, 2022 Interseccion, 2022 Centre A, 2022 25FPS, 2021 Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal, 2021 Beijing International Short Film Festival, 2021 McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, 2021

Credits:

Directed by Rita Ferrando

Animation and Animation Artwork by Lily Jue Sheng

Produced by Jacqueline De Niverville

Featuring The Ikenobo Society of Toronto

Cinematography by Sebastian Back

Editor Brendan Mills

Art Direction by Ana Popova

Sound Recordist Amanda Wong

Original Score by Casey MQ

Made with the financial support of :

The National Film Board of Canada, The Canadian Arts Council and The Toronto Arts Council

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Kent, UK 🇬🇧! An owl flies over a meadow after a night of hunting for food. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

London, UK 🇬🇧! The speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, with the speaker’s state coach, which has returned to Westminster for the first time time since 2005. The coach, believed to have been built in the 1690s for King William III and Queen Mary II, was last used by the Commons speaker George Thomas in 1981 to attend the marriage of the Prince of Wales to Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Adelaide, Australia 🇦🇺! Kites and balloons fly high during an International Kite Festival on 9 April. Photograph: Xinhua/Shutterstock

Istanbul, Turkey 🇹🇷! An aerial view of people visiting the stands during the fourth day of the Turkey’s largest technology and aviation event, Teknofest, at Ataturk airport. Photograph: Ali Atmaca/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Beijing, China 🇨🇳! Visitors climb a staircase on the Great Wall as they visit the popular tourist site on the first day of the May Labour Day holiday, which lasts five days. Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

South Australia 🇦🇺! The peloton competing in the 23rd Santos Tour Down Under 2023, riding 112km from Unley to Mount Lofty in South Australia. Photograph: Tim de Waele/Getty Images

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Festival de cine de Beijing

Se inaugura el XIII Festival Internacional de Cine de Beijing La decimotercera edición del Festival Internacional de Cine de Beijing se celebra este año del 22 al 29 de abril. Este es el primer evento cinematográfico internacional que se celebra de forma completamente presencial en 2023. Quince películas preseleccionadas competirán por los premios Tiantan. Veamos más detalles con nuestra reportera Luo Huan. El sábado, 22 de abril, abre sus puertas la decimotercera edición del Festival Internacional de Cine de Beijing. Después de 3 años de lucha contra la pandemia, los actos vuelven a celebrarse de forma presencial. Tailandia es el país invitado de honor del certamen de este año. La ceremonia inaugural del Festival se lleva a cabo cerca del lago Yanqi, en el distrito de Huairou, en Beijing, reuniendo a más de 200 cineastas chinos y extranjeros en la alfombra roja.

Este año, el Festival recibió cerca de 1.488 filmes de 93 países y regiones, cifra récord del certamen. Un total de 15 han sido preseleccionados para competir por las diez categorías de los prestigiosos premios Tiantan. Cuatro de las cintas a competición están dirigidas por realizadores latinoamericanos: “Adiós, Buenos Aires” por Germán Kral, de Argentina; “El Castigo”, una coproducción chileno-argentina dirigida por Matías Bize, de Chile; “Tótem”, una coproducción entre México, Dinamarca y Francia con la mexicana Lila Avilés como directora, y “To Catch a Killer” por el director argentino Damián Szifron.

La película inaugural del festival es “Beijing 2022”, la cinta oficial de los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno de Beijing, producida por Zhang Yimou y dirigida por Lu Chuan. El mismo Zhang Yimou, director de las célebres “Linterna roja” y “Sorgo rojo”, entre muchas otras, preside el jurado de los premios Tiantan de este año. Estará acompañado por Fernando Juan Lima, presidente del Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, Argentina; el director chino de Hong Kong Stanley Kwan; el director israelí Nadav Lapid; la directora tailandesa Pimpaka Towira; el actor chino Zhang Songwen y la actriz china Zhou Dongyu, quienes desvelarán, el 29 de abril, los ganadores de los premios Tiantan. El Festival cuenta con nueve secciones temáticas, siendo la más esperada por el público el Panorama Cinematográfico de Beijing. Más de 180 filmes de diferentes países, géneros y estilos se proyectarán en 27 salas de cine y teatros de la capital china. El 18 de abril, a los pocos minutos de ponerse a la venta, las entradas para las películas más populares se agotaron rápidamente. No cabe duda de que el Festival Internacional de Cine de Beijing está transmitiendo una clara señal de recuperación para el mercado cinematográfico de China. #redcontactosur https://www.tiktok.com/@redcontactosur/video/7226031114811411717?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7129876716743853573

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Shireen Seno: A child dies, a child plays, a woman is born, a woman dies, a bird arrives, a bird flies off Solo exhibition at daadgalerie, Berlin April 5-May 7, 2023

Opening: Wednesday, April 5, 7pm Artist Talk with Shireen Seno and George Clark  

Thursday, April 13, 7pm  Screening: Big Boy (2012) by Shireen Seno  

Thursday, April 20, 7pm Screening: Years When I Was a Child Outside (2008) by John Torres Artist Talk with John Torres  

Filmmaker and artist Shireen Seno’s work explores relationships in all their complexity and intricacies: within the family, to political relationships, to media and technology, between different species and ecosystems. Through a politics of attention and remarkable sensitivity, Seno creates a space for repressed narratives, often set against the backdrop of Philippine colonial history and diaspora life. In doing so, her practice takes her to archives as well as to Candaba, a wetland near Manila where migratory birds settle halfway along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway. She encounters the world with a keen awareness of the malleability of images and a deep distrust of overly linear narratives.  Shireen Seno’s first solo exhibition in Europe brings together works from the last four years: the 17-channel video installation A child dies, a child plays…, the film essay To Pick a Flower, new photographs and a sequel to her image essay Trunks.

Shireen Seno’s body of work touches on an array of interconnected activity from feature films to multi- screen installations, passing through collective practice, site-specific installations, photographic enquiries, and curatorial excavations. Her work addresses memory, history, and image-making, often in relation to the idea of home.  

A recipient of the 2018 Thirteen Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines, she is known for her films Big Boy (2012) and Nervous Translation (2017) which have won awards at Rotterdam, Punto de Vista, Shanghai, Olhar de Cinema, Vladivostok, and Lima Independiente and have screened at New Directors/New Films at Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA, New York; Yebisu International Festival of Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo; Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin; Tate Modern, London; UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; NTU Center for Contemporary Art, Singapore; Portikus, Frankfurt; Taipei National Center for Photography and Images, Taipei, Museum of the Moving Image, New York; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul; Museum of Contemporary Art & Design Manila; MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai; and M+, Hong Kong, among others.  

Together with artist and filmmaker John Torres, Shireen Seno runs Los Otros, a critically acclaimed film and video studio and platform committed to the intersections of film and art, with a focus on process over product. In 2019, Seno and Torres realised the exhibition Cloudy with a Chance of Coconuts at Portikus, Frankfurt am Main.  Shireen Seno is currently a film fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program.

Photo documentation (exhibition views and façade daadgalerie): Thomas Bruns

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BIOGRAPHY

Driven by a profound passion for dance, theatre, critical theory, and philosophy, TingAn’s work emphasises plurality, socio-political engagement, and is rooted in decolonial discourses through dance, performance, choreography, research and facilitation.

Born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1989, TingAn Ying (she/all pronouns) is a Han-Taiwanese artist, researcher, and facilitator based in Berlin. Her career started off as a professional dancer. Over the past decade, she has established a prolific presence through collaborations with numerous esteemed artists and institutions internationally.

Driven by a profound passion for dance, theatre, philosophy and politics, TingAn’s work emphasises plurality, socio-political engagement, and is rooted in decolonial discourses. She navigates the intersections of body-centred creation and critical reflection. TingAn actively facilitates events for marginalised communities, challenging institutional narratives to foster authentic self-actualisation and confronting internalised western hegemony. 

2013 - Now

Over the past decade, TingAn worked as a dancer and performer in Europe with a global reach. She’s made her notable presence through the collaborations with numerous redeemed artists such as Anouk van Dijk, Falk Richter, Emanuel Gat, Edan Gorlicki/INTER-ACTIONS, Club Guy and Roni amongst others. She’s predominantly served as a co-creator in the original creation processes. She has performed and held residencies at prestigious institutions including Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Münchner Kammerspiele, Frankfurt Lab, deSingel Antwerp, Dansatelier Rotterdam, Uferstudio Berlin, Grand Théâtre de Genève, National Theater Taiwan, and Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay.

Parallel to her prolific career as a professional dancer, TingAn consistently conducting thematic research projects with the supports from institutional grants in Germany and Taiwan. i.e. [Good, night-self-learning] (2023) and Ventriloquism: let me speak your language (2021).

Since 2019, TingAn has dedicated herself into developing the original practice, Body and Composition. This exploration delves into subjectivity, body archive, and embodiment, aims to cultivate intuition, and enable practitioners to craft their own methodologies. Body and Composition rejects prescribed physicality. It strongly encourages practitioners to assert their presence and authorship.

In 2024, TingAn co-founded “second half - a time-space for practice, critical reflection, and care” with Melissa Ugolini. The project currently organises sporadic yet recurring movement research sessions, with plans to fully introduce its features to the public this autumn.

Early Career

TingAn studied at Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA) from 2006 to 2011, majoring in contemporary dance with extensive physical training in Tai-Chi, Hung Kuen, Beijing Opera, Dai Dance, Butoh, Pendet Balinese dance, and Taiwanese aboriginal dances (Amis & Paiwan). In 2010, she was elected both the most popular dancer and the best female dancer.

Besides her performance achievements, TingAn showed an early interest in academic research, enrolling in master's and PhD courses as an undergraduate. She studied Noh Theater, philosophy, textual analysis, and various Western critical theories. Between 2009 and 2011, she produced for Focus Dance Company, a graduate company from TNUA, curating and organising tours in Indonesia, China, and Taiwan. In 2011, TingAn attended the American Dance Festival with a scholarship from the Chin-Lin Arts Foundation and sojourned in New York. She worked with Mark Haim, Jesse Zaritt, and Ya'ra Moses during this time. Upon returning to Taiwan, she worked for the Taiwan National Science Council from 2011 to 2013 as an assistant researcher on the project "Performing Corporeality within and between Tradition and Modernization," led by Prof. Yatin Lin, Prof. Sal Murgiyanto, and Prof. Chi-Fang Chao.

In 2012, TingAn was the assistant curator for the solo exhibition of the Japanese avant-garde artist group Chim↑Pom at Project Fulfill Art Space, alongside curator Huang Chien-Hung. She also worked as a freelance journalist during this time.