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Actress Zhao Liying Source: Weibo
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(Xinhua) The 83rd Venice International Film Festival closed on Saturday on Venice's Lido, with Chinese VR short film The Pigeon Ring winning the Venice Immersive Grand Prize. Directed by Zhang Yuqi and Tao Shixin, the 35-minute film follows a grandfather and granddaughter searching for a lost pigeon ring, using the story to explore memories and family ties in an ordinary Chinese family. The film's win marked a notable achievement for Chinese cinema at this year's festival. At the closing

(China Daily) A folk dance drama adaptation of the Chinese literature classic A Dream of Red Mansions made its New York debut on Friday, drawing hundreds of theatergoers who greeted the performers with a thunderous ovation at the close of the two-hour performance. The show will continue its run at the David H Koch Theater in New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts through Sept 13. Over the centuries, the masterpiece written by Cao Xueqin (1715-1763) during the Qing Dynasty (164




(Variety) Dirty Monkeys’ war comedy-drama “Once Upon a Time in the Middle East” held the number one spot at the mainland China box office for the fifth straight frame, collecting RMB52.9 million ($7.8 million) over the Sept. 11–13 weekend, according to data from Artisan Gateway. Directed by Wen Muye (“Dying to Survive”) and starring Shen Teng, Jiang Qiming, Aarif Rahman, and Omar Sherif, the late-summer hit has lifted its cume to $318.4 million since opening on Aug. 11. The story tracks a Ch

(China Daily) Veteran Chinese TV host and writer Jing Yidan passed away on Sept 13, according to an obituary released by her daughter, Wang Erqing. Jing suffered an acute cerebral hemorrhage in June 2026 in her hometown of Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, and was later transferred to Beijing for in-patient treatment, where she passed away. Public records show that Jing was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang in 1955. She graduated from the Beijing Broadcasting Institute, now known as




(China Daily) Dressed in an elaborate period costume, Sun Kemin stood on the set of an ancient Chinese street at Hengdian World Studios — the country's largest film and television production base, preparing for a confrontation. She was the descendant of a family that had mastered the traditional craft of ronghua, or velvet flowers. Her best friend, playing the villain, had secretly learned the technique and was passing it off as her own. Now the two were competing for the chance to have

(China Daily) For Chaozhou-born singer Zheng Zhili, watching the Chinese film Dear You in Los Angeles felt less like sitting through a movie than opening a door to memories of home. More than a decade ago, while pursuing his career in one of China's major cities, Zheng wrote Tea Fragrance, a song inspired by his longing for his hometown of Jieyang in Guangdong province. Years later, now living overseas himself, he found the film's portrayal of migration, family separation and attachment to o