Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square

Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square is a Canadian documentary from the year 1998.

Action

With the help of message films, photographs and artistic work of the director Shui -Bo Wang whose life is told from childhood. The boy grows under the communist Mao's teachings, becoming a young man who is interested in art, but at the same time serves as a soldier in the army. He is also confronted with the ideas and thoughts of the people who do not agree with the social system of China. It comes to a popular uprising that is brutally crushed on 3 and 4 June 1989 ( Tiananmen Square Massacre ).

Awards

1999, the film was nominated in the category of Best Short Documentary Oscar.

The National Educational Media Network recorded the movie from the Gold Apple. At the San Francisco International Film Festival, he was conferred an honorary certificate.

Background

The premiere of the film, which was produced on behalf of the National Film Board of Canada, took place on 16 October 1998.

The film can be seen online at the NFB.

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