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Originally Posted by Hip Priest
I wonder if those international films will genuinely be shown to the public. I suspect only officials and dignitaries will be present (like that Rolling Stones gig in China).
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There is a better article about an American journalist who attended the festival a year or so ago, posing as a German, including an illegal passport. Many bits of strangeness occur during his stay, and eventually he is spooked into leaving.
Here it is:
http://www.gluckman.com/NKFilmTokion.html
I didn't know about the Stones incident in China. I've been reading a bit about how China is starting to becomes a bit more relaxed with its bizarre paranoia. China surely must realize that with its growing economic and political power, social change is inevitable.