Eternal Spring (2022)
- Original title
- Eternal Spring (長春)
- Directed by
- Jason Loftus
- Genre
- documentary, animation, history
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 7.9 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This adult animated documentary focuses on a 2002 incident where Falun Gong hijacked broadcast television stations in Changchun, China. It also examines ongoing repression of ethnic and religious minorities in the country.
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What happens
Eternal Spring (Chinese: 长春) is a 2022 Canadian adult animated documentary film written, directed, and co-produced by Jason Loftus. Based around the animation of Chinese artist Daxiong, the film centres on Falun Gong's 2002 hijacking of broadcast television stations in Changchun and China's continued repression of ethnic and religious minority groups. The film premiered at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival on March 15, 2022. It was subsequently screened at the 2022 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where it was named the overall winner of the Hot Docs Audience Award for most popular film in the festival, and the first-place winner of the Rogers Audience Award for the most popular Canadian film. In August 2022, the film was announced as Canada's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. It was the first documentary film and the first animated film ever submitted by Canada, and only the fourth time since 1971 that a film was selected in a language other than French. On November 9, 2022, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially deemed the film eligible for consideration in the Best Animated Feature category. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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