Venue: Committee Room One, Wellington City Council, 101 Wakefield Street. Gold coin donation.
7.15pm: 泥鳅也是鱼 (Loach is Fish Too) (98 minutes, 2006)
This is a movie about migrant workers attempting to eke out an existence in Beijing. A recent divorcee Ni Qiu (meaning “loach” in Chinese) took her cute little twin girls to Beijing in search of a better life. Along the way she meets a man who has the same name as her! They suffer many a misfortune, but manage to get on their feet, share some laughs, fall in love despite mutual misgivings and the baggage of past relationships.
Director: 杨亚洲 Yang Yazhou. Cast: 倪大红 Ni Dahong,倪萍 Ni Ping ,潘虹 Pan Hong
With Support from the Chinese Embassy and Confucius Institute, Victoria University of Wellington.