RUES DE PÉKIN / BEIJING'S STREETS

China took up this huge challenge: reshape the entire city of Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. Official sources says that only 30% of the old Beijing is remaining after this big construction works.

BEIJING’S STREETS offers a 12 parts documentary shot in this Old Beijing, just before the Olympics: the “vanishing Beijing”. Each part explores one theme, on peculiar aspect of the Old Beijing. The treatment is very simple. It is made in a way that the spectator can feel like he actually is in Beijing. Like a walker, you’re pacing up and down the streets and lanes, looking for the most traditional and yet alive Beijing. You’re stopping in front of a shoemaker fixing a shoe, an old man taking his bird to the park in a cage or men playing cards in the street.

The movie catches an ancient time-space, far from the noises of construction works and ring roads and from the agitations of the shopping centers.

The Beijing that were, that is but maybe won’t be anymore…

www.ruesdepekin.fr

About the director:

Born in 1980 in Paris’s suburb, Pablo Tréhin-Marçot makes movies since his 15th birthday.
He has a MASTER’s degree in Cinema: creation and direction (Sorbonne Nouvelle & Paris VIII). His fist feature film Filmbyen, the new Mecqua of cinema? is a movie about Lars VON TRIER film-town. He is also an educator for young people in trouble whom he is teaching how to make movies.

Other films on 23. 05. 2009:

KosmosTheater

18:30 - 19:05 Home

19:20 - 20:15 Walking with Cecilia

20:30 - 20:45 Mimoune

from 20:45 on: Arbeiten oder nicht arbeiten?

Café 7*Stern:

18:30 - 18:45 Not for a Dime