Date: November 15, 2026
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: Evergreen Cultural Center: 1205 Pinetree Wy, Coquitlam
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Date: October 26, 2025
Time: start at 1:00 PM
Location: Annex
Position: 823 Seymour St, Vancouver
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Date: November 16, 2026
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Landmark Cinemas Surrey, Guildford: 15051 101 Ave, Surrey, BC V3R 7Z1
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Regarded as a clown, while wandering with his mentally disturbed mother. In a traffic accident, the homeless man Chen Dazhi sacrifices his life heroically to save a child, becoming a household hero and thus unveiling his mysterious past. Thirty years prior, Chen Dazhi worked as a rural teacher. After his younger sister died in an accident, his mother suffered a mental breakdown from overwhelming grief and longing for her daughter. Following numerous failed medical treatments, Chen Dazhi put on his late sister’s clothes to amuse his mother and kept cross-dressing for thirty years.
Date: November 16, 2026
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Evergreen Cultural Centre, 1205 Pinetree Wy, Coquitlam, BC V3B 7Z4
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At Tibet’s Purog Kangri Glacier, Gesar singer Tsering Gabu, facing cultural decline, realizes he is Gesar. On a snowy peak, he sings *The Birth of Gesar* as his child is born, their voices merging across heaven and earth.
Date: November 16, 2026
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Evergreen Cultural Centre, 1205 Pinetree Wy, Coquitlam, BC V3B 7Z4
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Realistic feature film 520·Grain Buds is written and directed by Guo Tong, shot on location in Taishun, Zhejiang Province. It centers on the hardships and kindness of ordinary people from the grassroots. The protagonist Gu Yaqin is abandoned by her husband after his bankruptcy. Raising her daughter Xiaoman, who lives with mild autism, alone, she works as a night-shift taxi driver to make ends meet and protect her child through all struggles. The film also depicts other little people bearing heavy life burdens: Chen Ben, a one-legged deliveryman, and Captain He, a security guard. Multiple storylines interweave, showing the individual crises in ordinary lives. The title comes from the solar term Grain Buds, which implies that life does not need perfection; small satisfactions hold warmth. Avoiding deliberate sentimentality, the film explores understanding, mutual support and kindness between people amid daily hardships and simple joys. It delivers quiet, touching human warmth and contemplates love, perseverance and the life philosophy that contentment in small things brings peace.