Chinese Cinema Cycle

The Confucius Institute is organising its monthly Chinese Cinema Cycle in partnership with the Cercle Cité. This is a unique opportunity to discover Chinese films and documentaries (with English and/or French subtitles). The Confucius Institute worked with the Allers-Retours Association to select the films.
Free entrance and open to all.

More information: https://confucius-institute.uni.lu

The Land of Peach Blossoms - Movie by ZHOU Mingying
2019 / China / Documentary / 99 minutes / Chinese (English subtitles)

In Chongqi, in south-west China, ‘The Peach Spring’ is a unique restaurant. Customers are served by actors who perform singing and martial arts during their meal, but behind the scenes a collectivist and authoritarian micro-society has organised itself around the charismatic founder.

A fascinating documentary on the rise and fall of one man's wild utopia. By sharing the daily lives of the restaurant's employees, ZHOU Mingying shows the inner workings of the restaurant and documents its collapse step by step.