Category: Eternal Spring

2nd Protest Against Medical Benefit Cuts in Wuhan

Protests erupt in Wuhan. Tens of thousands of retirees are taking to the streets—but it’s not about COVID-19. It’s about health benefits getting slashed. Now, clashes between the elderly and authorities spark anger and calls for action. Any videos of the protests are being scrubbed from China’s internet. Locals are getting desperate in the face…


MPs Host Screening of Canada’s Oscar Contender for Best International Film on Parliament Hill

On Parliament Hill on Feb. 13, MPs hosted a special screening of “Eternal Spring,” an award-winning film depicting Beijing’s persecution of religious rights. The animated documentary is Canada’s selection in the category of Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards next month. Directed by Torontonian Jason Loftus and animated by acclaimed Chinese artist…


Art Exhibit Shows Award-Winning Documentary ‘Eternal Spring’ at Reception

MILPITAS, Calif.—The Classical Arts Foundation, a nonprofit aiming to preserve and nurture the classical arts, hosted a reception and showing for the award-winning film “Eternal Spring” at the Milpitas library on Jan. 21, ahead of the Lunar New Year. The reception and film showing was part of the foundation’s art exhibit inside the library. “The…


‘Eternal Spring’ Is One of the Great Movies of Our Time

Commentary Sometimes a movie is so good it goes past the censors. That is why it is so surprising that the supremely anti-totalitarian, anti-communist “Eternal Spring” is this year’s Canadian Oscar nominee in an unheard of three categories—best international film, best animation, and best documentary. The movie is that good. Having just seen it, I…


Meditation Group Hacks into Chinese State-Controlled TV in Award-Winning Documentary

A group of peaceful meditators who exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign of deception toward the spiritual practice Falun Gong are featured in in a documentary that’s returning to Southern California after a summer screening. The award-winning film “Eternal Spring” is playing for one week in AMC Theatres starting Friday, Oct. 21, and if weekend…


‘Eternal Spring’: Documentary That Retells a Daring Act of Defiance in Communist China Premieres in New York City

Two decades ago, a group of ordinary citizens in China’s northeast managed to pull off a feat that no Chinese had ever done before. For almost an hour, they took over the broadcast of Chinese state television to screen information about the spiritual group Falun Gong, which had been the target of an overwhelming official…


‘Eternal Spring’: Documentary That Retells a Daring Act of Defiance in Communist China Premieres in NY

Two decades ago, a group of ordinary citizens in China’s northeast managed to pull off a feat that no Chinese had ever done before. For almost an hour, they took over the broadcast of Chinese state television to screen information about the spiritual group Falun Gong, which had been the target of an overwhelming official…


‘Eternal Spring’: Documentary That Retells a Daring Act of Defiance in Communist China Premieres in NYC

Two decades ago, a group of ordinary citizens in China’s northeast managed to pull off a feat that no Chinese had ever done before. For almost an hour, they took over the broadcast of Chinese state television to screen information about the spiritual group Falun Gong, which had been the target of an overwhelming official…


Film Review: ‘Eternal Spring’: An Ominous Warning Cry From the Far East

Not Rated | 1h 25min | Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Animation | Oct. 14, 2022 (USA) On March 5, 2002, practitioners of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong hacked China’s state-run television in order to broadcast videos exposing their persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCP condemned the act as a hijacking by “enemies of the state.” In an animated scene…


Canada’s Oscars’ Selection for ‘Best International Film’ Coming to Theatres This Week

Canada’s Oscars’ selection in the category of Best International Feature Film will be screening in theatres across the country this week. “Eternal Spring,” an animated documentary based on the true story of 18 brave Chinese citizens who tapped into a communist-controlled television station to screen uncensored news, has won multiple awards, including at the Hot…