About the film
Fei Mu's Spring in a Small Town (小城之春, 1948) is widely held to be one of the great works of Chinese cinema — a quiet, devastating chamber drama set in the ruins of a provincial town just after the war. Long unavailable in the West, the film has been digitally restored from original elements held by the China Film Archive.
Introduction
Film historian Marie-Claude Beaud will introduce the film in a 15-minute talk before the screening, situating Spring against the post-war Chinese cinematic landscape it both belongs to and quietly resists.
Format
35mm restoration, screened in Mandarin with French and English subtitles. Total programme length, including introduction, approximately 110 minutes.