BERLIN : Fan Bingbing, one of China's biggest film stars, strode onto the Berlinale red carpet on Thursday, marking her return to cinema following a five-year pause.Her reappearance also spotlighted the return of Chinese-language film to the international stage, as mainland China and Hong Kong have eased
BERLIN : Fan Bingbing, one of China's biggest film stars, strode onto the Berlinale red carpet on Thursday, marking her return to cinema following a five-year pause.
Her role in"Green Night" - a racy thriller by Chinese director Han Shuai set in the crime-infested underworld of Seoul, South Korea - brings that chapter to a close, Fan told journalists ahead of Thursday's premiere. Beijing and Hong Kong both employed targeted lockdowns, mass testing and quarantines as part of zero-COVID policies near the start of the pandemic, before easing restrictions towards the end of last year as anti-COVID protests swept the mainland.
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