Free screening of Canada’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 2023 Oscars®. Q&A session with film director.
Canada’s first-ever animated entry to the Oscars® features a unique blend of animation and live action. Eternal Spring has received 27 international, national, and film festival prizes and was the only film in 2023 to qualify for the Oscars in all three categories of Best Animated Feature, Best Documentary Feature, and Best International Feature.
In March 2002, a state TV signal in China is hacked by members of the banned spiritual group Falun Gong. Their goal is to counter the government narrative about their practice.
In the aftermath, police raids sweep Changchun City, and comic book illustrator Daxiong (Justice League, Star Wars), a Falun Gong practitioner, is forced to flee. He arrives in North America, blaming the hijacking for worsening a violent repression. But his views are challenged when he meets the lone surviving participant to have escaped China, now living in Seoul, South Korea.
Combining present-day footage with 3D animation inspired by Daxiong’s art, Eternal Spring retraces the event on its 20th anniversary, and brings to life an unprecedented story of defiance, harrowing eyewitness accounts of persecution, and an exhilarating tale of determination to speak up for political and religious freedoms, no matter the cost.
For more information about the film, please visit https://eternalspringfilm.com/