BURNING ICE BIĪĪNG SHÀNG SHÍKÈ

DIRECTOR LIU HANXIANG
Script LIU HANXIANG

Camera ZHAI CIFENG

Music CHEN BIAO

Producers NING XINRAN, CHEN KUN

Production INHOPE PICTURES

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China, 2021, 97’
2 October 16:15, Saturn IMAX #2
Ice hockey has been gradually becoming professional in China since the moment Beijing got the right to organize the 2022 Winter Olympics. Qu Ruichen, Qu Lifan, and Zhai Zinan are three nine-year-old strikers for a Beijing junior ice hockey team. While they are doing their best on the court, their parents have to face the alternative: should they support their children and help them to become professional or should they force them to forget their dreams?


LIU HANXIANG

Graduated from the prestigious Beijing Film Academy. He is a multi-award winning director that has always focused on documentaries about youth. “Burning Ice” is his first feature documentary to hit the silver screen. It had its international premiere at the Moscow IFF this year. His filmography also includes “Tiger Hunt” (2011, short), ”Malan’s Singing” (2011, short), “Liang Yi’ Children’s Day” (2012, short), “Summer Mobile Cinema” (2014), “Juvenile” (2016, TV doc.).