“May I Live Longer” Disappointment: Beijing Film Festival Screening Cancelled

“May I Live Longer” was shortlisted for the Beijing Film Festival but was cancelled: I’m sorry to disappoint the audience who bought the tickets.

Hong Kong film “Hope You Live Forever” written, directed and starring new director Zhu Ziyan has been shortlisted for the “Focus on the Future” section of the 14th Beijing International Film Festival. It was originally scheduled to be filmed today (20th ) and next Tuesday (23rd) Two screenings were canceled The official explanation was that “the copy was damaged beyond repair.”

Zhu Ziyan wrote on IG Story: “I just learned in the early hours of the morning that both screenings of “May We Live Forever” in Beijing have been suddenly cancelled. I have been looking forward to the Beijing Film Festival for a long time , and I also learned that “May We Live Forever” has one ticket for the Beijing screening It’s hard to find I originally planned to go to Beijing to attend the screening in the last two days I’m sorry to disappoint the audience who bought the tickets.

I really hope that more people will be able to see “May I Live Longer” in the near future.

Zi Yan

2024.4.20

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“May I Live Longer” was shortlisted for the Beijing Film Festival but was cancelled: I’m sorry to disappoint the audience who bought the tickets.

“May I Live Longer” is a work written, directed and starred by Zhu Ziyan

The film focuses on the estranged father-daughter relationship (still from “May We Live Forever”)

Zhu Ziyan playing Lin Ziyuan in 2017 (pictures from “May You Live Forever”)

The screening of “May We Live Forever” in Beijing was suddenly cancelled, sparking a lot of discussion among netizens. Some netizens speculated that Wu Kangren, who played the father in the film, had a drug addiction, which made him the authorities considered him unfit for drugs. Some netizens believed that the film was anti- The screening was suddenly canceled due to the plot of the protest movement of the New Territories of the Northeast.

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