Date: Wednesday 23 November
Time: 7.00pm – 9:30pm
Venue: Committee Room One, Wellington City Council, 101 Wakefield Street
7-7:30pm –NZ Chinese Language Association National AGM
7:30 Feature Film—Life 人生 (105 minutes with English subtitles)
Director: Wu Tianming; Starring: Zhou Lijing, Wu Yufang
Adapted from the novel with the same title, this is a tragedy that occurs in “modern” China. Through a vivid description of the frustrated life story of Gao Jialin, a high school graduate who is first dismissed from his teaching post and then enrolled as a journalist in the city and finally dismissed from the post to become a farmer again, this movie presents the young man a serious issue of how to deal with his life.