2020 | Chinese New Year Screening: Mountains May Depart

Chinese New Year Screening: Mountains May Depart “From China to Australia, the lives, loves, hopes and disillusions of three individuals in a society changing at breakneck speed.” – MUBI In collaboration with BFI, we are going to screen another amazing film of Jia Zhangke “Mountains May Depart (2015)”, as part of the Chinese New Year…

Filming East & CAN Festival 2019

The 1st Filming East Shorts Award will assemble young Chinese ethnicity filmmakers working in the UK and screen the winners’ films across narrative, animation, fashion video and documentaries. The screening session will be followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers sharing their thoughts and experiences.

MOTI X Filming East Festival Immersive Screening

MOTI X Filming East Festival Immersive Screening | Ash is Purest White In collaboration with MOTI UK, Filming East is pleased to announce this exciting immersive screening event at Lola’s Room in The Hippodrome Casino. Ash is Purest White (The Sons and Daughters of Jianghu) is a tragicomedy gangster-style melodrama set from 2001 to 2018…

2018 | Callout: Filming East & CAN Short Film Award

We are delighted to launch the Short Film Callout for the 2019 Filming East & CAN Festival. Organised by both Filming East Festival and Chinese Arts Now, the Short Film Competition is part of the ‘British Chinese Film Day’ of CAN’s festival in January and early February 2019, which aims to support and encourage UK-based Chinese filmmakers to engage a wide range of audiences through their short films.