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Mountain Patrol: Kekexili and In the City of Sylvi...

Mountain Patrol: Kekexili and In the City of Sylvia

The Portsmouth Film Festival continues today with a showing of Mountain Patrol: Kekexili (15) at the No.3 Cinema in Portsmouth’s central library in Guildhall Square. A film inspired by a people’s remarkable mission surrounding the illegal Tibetan antelope poaching in the region of Kekexili, the largest animal reserve in China. The story is brought to the screen with great detail by director Lu Chuan. Set against the exquisite backdrop of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Chuan tells the tale of brave local Tibetans who face death and starvation to save the endangered antelope herds from a band of ruthless hunter. The film starts at 6:30pm.

Mountain Patrol: Kekexili is then followed at 8:30pm by In the City of Sylvia (PG). This film, by the Spanish director and cinema academic José Luis Guerín, is outstanding, a superbly shot and hauntingly enigmatic interior drama of longing, which has acquired cult status on the festival circuit and now has a very welcome UK release.

Tickets: £5, Concs:£3.50 or both films: £8, Concs:£6.

Check out the festivals’ website for full details.


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