Port Louis, Mauritius - Oct 10, 2019 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of guests signing on wall at launching ceremony of 2019 China Film Week in Mauritius
2. Guests posing for group photo
3. Film poster of "The Wandering Earth"
4. Guo Fan, director of film "The Wandering Earth" (L), Stanley Tong, director of film "Kungfu Yoga" (R), posing for photo
5. Various of guests at launching ceremony
6. Launching ceremony
7. Various of organizers of China, Mauritius, changing presents
8. Launching ceremony
9. Promo clips of 2019 China Film Week in Mauritius
10. Trailer of film "The Wandering Earth"
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Vecchia Juda, festival goer:
"So firstly I would like to say it's an absolutely amazing movie. My impression was I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. I was sitting on the edge. It was so impactful, it was so thrilling. I absolutely loved it."
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Jordan, festival goer (full name not given):
"Watching 'The Wandering Earth' is a wonderful experience for me in the sense that I could see the global scientific cooperation that will save humanity, and that was so wonderful. And there is also a dosage of humanity and wonderful feelings in the film."
13. Trailer of film "The Wandering Earth"
14. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Guo Fan, director, film "The Wandering Earth" (starting with shot 13/partially overlaid with shot 15/ending with shot 16):
"It is a Chinese science-fiction film so it always has a Chinese feel. I hope that there will be more opportunities for our films to go abroad, so that the audience around the world can watch them and more viewers will know and accept Chinese films. This is our responsibility as literary and art workers. We hope to pass on more positive values and energy to the world."
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15. Guo during interview
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16. Promo clips of 2019 China Film Week in Mauritius
17. Various of Chinese film posters

The 2019 China Film Festival opened on Thursday in Port Louis, capital of Mauritius, in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China and to boost the bilateral ties between China and Mauritius.

The event is co-organized by the China Cultural Center in Mauritius and the Mauritius Film Development Bureau.

A total of six Chinese films were specially selected by the organizers and are screened with no admission fees in the hope of attracting the widest possible audience.

Chinese sci-fi blockbuster "The Wandering Earth" was screened as the opening film. The film earned over 4.6 billion yuan (about 649 million U.S. dollars), which makes it the third most successful film in the Chinese box office.

The film tells a story of an epic project to move the earth and its 3.5 billion residents to a remote star system in the near future because the sun is dying and is about to swallow up the earth.

"So firstly I would like to say it's an absolutely amazing movie. My impression was I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. I was sitting on the edge. It was so impactful, it was so thrilling. I absolutely loved it," said Vecchia Juda, a festival goer.

"Watching 'The Wandering Earth' is a wonderful experience for me in the sense that I could see the global scientific cooperation that will save humanity, and that was so wonderful. And there is also a dosage of humanity and wonderful feelings in the film," said Jordan who also watched the film.

"It is a Chinese science-fiction film so it always has a Chinese feel. I hope that there will be more opportunities for our films to go abroad, so that the audience around the world can watch them and more viewers will know and accept Chinese films. This is our responsibility as literary and art workers. We hope to pass on more positive values and energy to the world," said Guo Fan, director of "The Wandering Earth".

Currently, China's movie industry is now the world's second largest. China has the world's biggest film studios and the highest number of movie screens.