Beijing, January 08: Two Chinese movies have been pulled from the Palm Springs International Film Festival to protest another film about the Dalai Lama and Tibet, One of the movie is being produced by a Indian Film producer.
The Chinese movies “Nanjing! Nanjing!” (also known as “City of Life and Death”), about the Japanese occupation of Nanjing in 1937, and “Quick Quick Slow,” were withdrawn, according to China’s state-run Beijing Times, because the Palm Springs festival plans to screen a movie called “The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom.”
That film, a documentary by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam, follows the Dalai Lama for a year, and its description in the festival’s program said that it chronicled “the 2008 protests in Tibet, the long march in India, the Beijing Olympics and the breakdown of talks with China.”
A representative for “Nanjing! Nanjing!” said that the films were pulled on the order of China’s ministry of foreign affairs, its film bureau and the consulate general of China in Los Angeles.
--Agencies
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