Yan Ting Yuen

Yan Ting Yuen is a Chinese-Dutch filmmaker and screenwriter, originally from Hong Kong, based in Amsterdam. She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, specialized in hybrid forms of filmmaking. Her films have been aired by national and international television channels and have been premiered and screened at Sundance Film Festival, Le FIFA in Montreal, IDFA, IFFR, and MIFF.

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Mr. Hu and the Temple

How hard could it be to start a new Buddhist temple? Quite hard indeed, the Chinese businessman Mr. Hu discovers during this documentary, as unforeseen tensions with the sponsoring monastery in China threaten his dream of…

By Yan Ting Yuen

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