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Eternal Spring (Chinese: 长春) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jason Loftus and released in 2022.[1] Based around the animation of Chinese artist Daxiong, the film centres on Falun Gong's 2002 hijacking of broadcast television stations in Changchun, and China's continued repression of ethnic and religious minority groups.[1]

Eternal Spring
Film poster
Traditional	長春
Simplified	长春
Mandarin	Chángchūn
Literally	Eternal Spring / Changchun
Directed by	Jason Loftus
Written by	Jason Loftus
Produced by	Jason Loftus Masha Loftus Yvan Pinard Kevin Koo
Starring	Daxiong
Cinematography	John Minh Tran
Edited by	David Schmidt
Music by	Thomas William Hill
Production company	Lofty Sky Entertainment
Release date	March 15, 2022 (2022-03-15) (Thessaloniki)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	Canada
Languages	English Mandarin

The film premiered at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival on March 15, 2022.[2] It was subsequently screened at the 2022 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where it was named the overall winner of the Hot Docs Audience Award for most popular film in the festival, and the first-place winner of the Rogers Audience Award for the most popular Canadian film.[3]

In August 2022, the film was announced as Canada's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.[4] It was the first documentary film and the first animated film ever submitted by Canada, and only the fourth time since 1971 that a film was selected in a language other than French.[4]

See also

• List of submissions to the 95th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
• List of Canadian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

References

External links

• Eternal Spring at IMDb
• Official website

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