Enter the Year of the Dragon
Beamafilm
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09/02/2024
As we usher in the Year of the Dragon, let's celebrate the vibrant traditions and rich culture of the Lunar New Year for 2024. This year holds a special significance as it marks the first time the Lunar New Year is featured as a floating holiday in the United Nations calendar, a testament to the global significance of this joyous occasion.
2024 is also the year of the wood dragon, uniquely characterized by all “yang” energies and symbolised by masculine, far-reaching decisions. This lunar new year also marks the start of an entirely new 20-year fengshui cycle, in which the fire element will dominate.
So, why not gather your loved ones and enjoy a movie marathon featuring Lunar New Year-themed films from the Beamafilm catalogue? From heartwarming family dramas to action-packed adventures, there's something for everyone to enjoy. ANZ audiences: be sure to also mark your calendar for the release of Bernardo Bertolucci's multi-Oscar winning epic 'The Last Emperor' on Thursday, February 22nd.
Gong hei fat choy - may the Year of the Dragon bring you happiness, connection and community!
Watch for FREE with a participating library card or on a 30-day trial. Also, you can rent a film for 48 hours.
Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
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Five films accompany a travel writer on a mission: Bradley Mayhew, 40, a senior writer for Lonely Planet Publications re-travels the Silk Road on the tracks of its most well-known voyager: the mediaeval traveller and writer Marco Polo.
A father and his daughters experience generational conflict at the dinner table.
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A story set in nineteenth-century China and focusing on the life-long friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid social norms imposed on women.
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This film explores the life, ideas, and work of the Chinese sage, known to the west as, Confucius.
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Though only 14 years old, May is selected to be the third wife of a wealthy landowner in 19th century rural Vietnam.
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John Stamford, an expatriate Australian, now a private detective in Singapore, becomes involved in a fake pharmaceuticals case and a dangerous love triangle.
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In order to keep a promise he made to his wife, an old man and his granddaughter set off to her native village with a bird in a cage.
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Harry Yuan returns to China after living abroad and travels along the Yangtze River to explore its impact on Chinese communities and heritage.
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A successful but cold-hearted Hong Kong banker returns to Singapore to decide the fate of a mysterious shophouse inherited from her great-grandmother, only to uncover a complicated history of scandals and controversy.
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Swinging from old to new, this documentary gives a panoramic view of the biggest construction boom in history and charts the modern face of Beijing and its newly iconic buildings.
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Inside a spaceship at Jiuquan Launch Facility, three men sit on top of 500 tons of liquid fuel. A controlled explosion will blast them three hundred kilometers into space, and into the record books. This is China’s next great leap into space – an historic mission where one...
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A taxi driver goes on the run after an attempt to carry out a hit on a professor goes terribly awry.
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Lunar New Year