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6 movies to watch at 12th Spring Filmfest

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Now on its 12th year, the Ateneo de Manila University’s Ricardo Leong Center for Chinese Studies, together with Film Development Council of the Philippines, and Credit Suisse, with the cooperation of Ateneo Celadon, and Shangri-La Plaza and Shang Cineplex, once again bring you the Spring Film Festival.

Running until Feb. 18, the film festival is organized every year to promote Chinese language and culture in mainstream Philippine society, particularly among young Filipinos, so that they may become bridges between the Philippines and China.

Here is this year’s lineup:

Our Shining Days

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In order to win the heart of the handsome leader of the Classical Orchestra, wacky sophomore student Jing (Xu Lu) teams up with her male buddy You (Peng Yuchang) to form a Chinese music ensemble along with a bunch of cosplaying outcast. What started out as a reluctant alliance among a group of misfit slowly becomes a journey of self-discovery, and ultimately a daring quest to revitalize what has long been considered ageing musical tradition. Despite all odds, Jing and You manage to hold the band together and prove that it’s not the appearance, but the heart and will that shine and define you as a person.

What a Wonderful Family

A husband (Lee Lichun) and wife (Zhang Weixin) have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies that she wants a divorce. The wife’s divorce announcement sends the entire family into chaos. Their three children are thrown into a state of panic to hear this news of separation, not to mention their own issues: the marriage crisis between the eldest son (Huang Lei) and his wife (Sun Li), the domestic conflict between the career daughter (Christina Hai) and her deadbeat husband (Wang Xun), and the financial struggle between the youngest son (Wei Daxun) and his fiancée (Ren Rongxuan). Amid the sudden tumult of life, each member of the family begins to voice out their respective grievances.

Walking Past the Future

Yaoting, daughter of aging migrant workers living in the city, is coping with harsh reality whilst their dreams of a better future are crumbling in an era of drastic changes in China. With a dim hope of providing her family with a home of their own, she takes part in a series of highly-paid medical experiments, with tragic consequences.

Office

Billion-dollar Company Jones & Sunn is going public. Chairman Ho Chung-ping (Chow Yun Fat) has promised CEO Chang (Sylvia Chang), who has been his mistress for more than twenty years, to become a major shareholder of the company. As the IPO team enters the company to audit its accounts, a series of inside stories start to be revealed. Lee Xiang (Wang Ziyi), a new hire at Jones & Sunn, brings with him youthful ideals and dreams. Within the neoliberal market, the logic of intrigue rules, complicated by entanglements of love-hate relationships, which weaves a power play and a pathos-laden tragedy inside the office.

Monster Hunt

The film takes place in the distant past, where the Human race existed alongside the Monster race. They once shared the world in peace and harmony until the Humans drove the Monsters out from their home, for they sought total dominion over their lands. Recently, a civil war took place in the Monster Realm which resulted in the usurpation of the Monster King’s throne from a treacherous minister, who later sought the Monster Queen and her unborn baby, and the Monster Queen fled to the Human Realm. The story begins with Song Tianyin (Jing Boran), an unnerved young village mayor who becomes pregnant with the Monster Queen’s baby, and he encounters an aspiring Monster-hunter named Huo Xiaolan (Bai Baihe), and they both embark on an adventure to protect the baby from villains of the Human and Monster worlds alike.

Cold War 2

In this sequel to the 2012 Hong Kong mega hit, a psychotic killer’s desperate escape attempt turns rival police chiefs against one another, battling it out on the streets and at the station.“Cold War”, the codename for the rescue operation of five hijacked police officers, is deemed a partial success. Despite political outcry, the potent rescue led by Acting Police Commissioner Sean Lau (Aaron Kwok) gains him promotion to the highest rank in the police force, yet causes Deputy Police Commissioner Waise Lee (Tony Leung Ka Fai) his reputable career. Joe Lee (Eddie Peng Yuyan), son of Waise and the sole suspect of the conspiracy, is captured and taken into custody. The missing of the hi-tech police sprinter is still a misery.

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