8:00PM - Capawock Theatre (Opening Night Film)

BEIJING TAXI

Writer/Director: Miao Wang
Documentary/ China and USA / 78 mins

Introduction and Q&A with director Miao Wang, just back from China.

Miao Wang's new film follows three cabdrivers in the lead-up to the 2008 Olympics. Powerful and uncensored, the film shadows the cabbies as they move through a rapidly changing city where historical districts are razed and luxury complexes thrown up. A intimate portrait of three average Chinese citizens riding the never-smooth road to modernization. The director “vividly portrays Beijing undergoing a profound transformation arch…through a humanistic lens,” says IndieWire.

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OPENING NIGHT FILM IS PRECEDED BY RECEPTION AT MANSION HOUSE INN - 5:30-7:00 PM - Your admission ticket is for both events (no "movie only" ticket available). This film will replay on Sunday at 12:00 noon. See Events Page for more details about Reception.