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Shanghai Family Value is an observational documentary structured around the director’s childhood home in the old French quarter of Shanghai. The central story line unfolds around her ongoing effort to understand the new and old Chinese society by focusing on the house which her mother built and owned in the forties. Keeping with her role as an observer, the filmmaker attempts to explore the contrasts between Chinese and Western perceptions about society, decision-making and time. This leads us to the universal question: what is memory?

Cinéma Vérité: Defining the Moment is a major retrospective of some of the century’s finest non-fiction films, and a celebration of the contemporary legacy of the Cinéma Vérité revolution of the late 50s and 60s. The revolution had many names: Free Cinema, Direct Cinema, Candid Eye, Cinéma Vérité. And it broke out simultaneously in England, France, the US and Canada. Wherever it appeared, the form marked a completely new way of understanding film, the audience, and the world.

Free market capitalism has not only effected the flow of capital but also the global migration of labor. Laborers cross national borders to “developed” or “developing” countries and take on low-paying job in the service sector. The growing number of international laborers and new immigrants, usually of various nations and ethnicity, has now begun to have certain impact on the host society. For example, in Taiwan, the lure if high income might subject them to the employer’s exploitations. And policy makers and employers rarely take into account their sense of displacement.

The greatest Rock'n Roll film of the greatest Rock'n Roll band. The Rolling Stone in America , on a musical odyssey. In 1969 anything could happen. One night at Altamont, it did.