Sophia Lam

The annual event, centered on the themes of justice, freedom, and human rights, selected the documentary as its opening film.

The film festival organizer said, “When we called, they told us, ‘We don’t support festivals with political nature.'”

Wang Zhanhai was one of seven practitioners who tapped into a local cable network in 2002 to expose the Chinese regime’s brutal persecution.

The clampdown on citizens who flocked to the Chinese capital seeking justice for a wide range of grievances intensified over the past two weeks.

The two elderly practitioners from Guangdong Province in China were sentenced to prison and fined thousands of dollars for their beliefs.

At least 136 practitioners have been arrested and around 189 harassed in the first two months of 2025, a watchdog reports.

Yan Xuguang was arrested in 2015 after lodging a lawsuit against former CCP head Jiang Zemin over the violent persecution of his faith group.

Wei Shuyuan was sentenced to three years behind bars for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that the CCP has brutally persecuted since 1999.

Sun Caiyan’s children have already lost their father and both grandfathers as the result of the regime’s persecution.

‘Practicing one’s faith should not be a crime,’ Yao’s son said.