INTO THE SHAOLIN

DIRECTOR SUN HONGYUN
Script SUN HONGYUN

Camera LIZHONG SHEN

Design HEI MING

Music SZYMON BRZOSKAA

Producers LUO CAN, XU ZHENG

Production BEIJING ANDALOU MOTION PICTURE CO., LTD., HIZONE FILM & TELEVISION DEVLOPMENT CO., LTD.

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China, 2022, 92’
5 October 16:15, Saturn IMAX #2
Shaolin is the birthplace of Chinese Chan and Kung Fu, where in a seemingly paradoxical way, the monks pursue Buddhist peace and enlightenment through the practice of deadliest martial arts. The film observes the lives of several Shaolin monks and a young Serbian female anthropologist who came to conduct fieldwork. With so much chaos in today’s world, can these insiders and outsiders find the Buddhist inner peace and the end of suffering here?

SUN HONGYUN

Associate professor at China Film Culture Institute of Beijing Film Academy. She holds a PhD in film studies from Beijing Normal University and is a postdoctoral researcher at China Film Art Research Center and a visiting scholar at New York University. Her monograph is “Truth Game: New Documentary in the West”. She also edited “Joris Ivens and Documentary Film” and translated two books into Chinese. “Into the Shaolin” is her first feature length documentary.