Events

The AGM is on 15 March at 7pm at Golden King in Woden

ACFS Film Night At 7.30pm on Wednesday 27 April 2022 the Australia China Friendship Society (www.acfs.org.au) will screen the 2016 drama “Someone to talk to” in the Catchpoles Room, Southern Cross Club Jamison. The film examines loneliness and alienation in contemporary Chinese society and our desire/need to find a soulmate. The dialogue is in Mandarin […]

Chinese Heritage Walk The Chinese Heritage walk in Queanbeyan, scheduled for last September, will be held on Sunday 5 June. The walk will be in the morning, followed by lunch (details of lunch later). The walk will be a roughly 2 hour mostly urban walk of about 3.5km, with some hilly parts and unpaved sections in a cemetery […]

Chinese Film Festival (September 7 – 12)  Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with six recent films from China, which has become the world's largest film industry over the past two years. Selections include an animated coming-of-age story about lion dancers (I Am What I Am), a look at the early days of COVID-19 in Wuhan (Ode […]

THURSDAY 8 SEPTEMBER @ 7:30 PM – ODE TO THE SPRING (你是我的春天) Directors: Zhou Nan, Zhang Chi, Tian Yusheng, Dong Yue, Rao Xiaozhi Five intertwined tales exploring ordinary heroes – doctors, patients, volunteers – as they face the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan. (M, 122 mins, 2022)

FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER @ 7:30 PM – SISTER (我的姐姐) Director: Yin Ruoxi When her parents are killed in an accident, a young woman must choose between independence or raising her 6-year-old half brother. (M, 127 mins, 2021)

SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER @ 7:30 PM – NICE VIEW (奇迹·笨小孩) Director: Wen Muye A tech-savvy 20-year-old orphan sets out to do whatever it takes to earn enough money to pay for his 6-year-old sister's heart surgery. (PG, 106 mins, 2022)

SUNDAY 11 SEPTEMBER @ 3 PM – MOZART FROM SPACE (外太空的莫扎特) Director: Chen Sicheng The lives of a father and his rebellious 14-year-old son are changed forever by the mysterious arrival of a musical alien named Mozart. (PG, 136 mins, 2022)

MONDAY 12 SEPTEMBER @ 7:30 PM – THE EIGHT HUNDRED (八佰) Director: Guan Hu In 1937, during the Battle of Shanghai, a group of Chinese soldiers are ordered to defend a warehouse from invading Japanese forces. (MA, 149 mins, 2020)