FLYING MONKS TEMPLE
SPECIAL SCREENING
On the first day of the festival VFS Films will premiere a documentary project that took years in the making. At the centre of it all – a Latvian architect and a Chinese mountain miner. The process – an ambitious structure in the “centre of the World” – the Sacred Songshan mountain in the Henan province of China. Cultures differ, traditional assumptions and conventions need to be reassessed, personal ambitions become two sides of the same coin. Quanqi Zhu wants to bring the West into China, Austris Mailītis deeply values Eastern philosophy, and Shaolin monks fly in the air in the world’s first building constructed for probably the most fundamental of human ambitions – levitation.
PROD Uldis Cekulis PROD COMP VFS Films CAM Valdis Celmiņš, Jānis Jurkovskis, Norbert Shieh MUSIC Voldemārs Johansons