In its fourth season, the festival will showcase the best new Chinese and Asian movies that are well known and distributed in the Far East.
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Eighteen films are scheduled to be shown, including the "Goddesses in Taiwan Cinema," a retrospective of six digitally restored movies starring legendary Taiwanese leading actresses, Pai Hong, Zhen Zhen, Brigitte Lin, Feng Fei-fei, Su Hui-lun and Kuai Lun-mei from the 1960s through the early 21st century.
The new comedies will also be shown: "Survival Family," a Japanese family that struggles to keep it together after a world-wide electrical power outage occurs; "My Egg Boy," about a young Taiwanese woman who's afraid she'll never have children freezes her eggs to prolong her fertility until the right man comes along; and "The Search," a documentary-narrative shot in Tibet by critically acclaimed director Pema Tseden about a photographer and a director traveling from village to village looking for actors to star in a film based on the Tibetan opera Drimé Kunden.
The Asian Pop-Up Cinema Season IV starts Wednesday At the AMC River East 21, Chicago
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COST: $10 for regular screenings and $15.00 for films with directors and other special guests in attendance.
Tickets are on sale now at: www.asianpopupcinema.org/tickets.
All ticketed screenings include a Q&A moderated by Ron Falzone, an associate professor at the Cinema Art and Science Department of Columbia College Chicago.