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Peter Chan's Kung Fu movie, "Wu Xia," will open the festival. [Photo: douban.com]
The organizing committee of the 6th Paris Chinese Film Festival held a press conference to announce the schedule of the great event yesterday at the Pagota Cinema in Paris.
The chairman of the festival, Gao Chunfang, attended the ceremony and introduced details of the festival.
According to Gao, 14 films of the famous Chinese director Sang Hu (1916-2004) will be screened during the festival, which runs from September 20th to October 10th. The screening list includes the well-known movies, "The Butterfly Lovers", "Marriage of the Fairy Princess", "New Year Sacrifice", and "The White Hair Girl".
Gao said, the late director started his creative career in the early 1940's, and his movies will help French audiences gain a better understanding of modern Chinese history.
Meanwhile, director Peter Chan's Kung Fu movie, "Wu Xia," will open the festival. The director and his wife Sandra Ng will attend the opening ceremony.
In addition, the movies "If you are the one", the Sino-French co-production of "The Kite", and other Chinese documentaries and animations will be screened during the festival.
Gao also revealed to the media that a welfare charity auction will be held during the festival, from which all the proceeds made during the sales will be donated towards projects which aim to protect the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey.
By Chen Nan
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