LOS ANGELES—The award-winning documentary “Eternal Spring” premiered on June 15 at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, where audience members were moved to tears by a tale of unwavering, peaceful resistance to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) repression of freedom of speech, assembly, and belief.
Screened at Dances with Films, an annual independent film festival in Los Angeles, the Canadian documentary uses a novel combination of animation and in-person interviews to reconstruct a 2002 incident—where a group of people hijacked a state television broadcast in China’s northeastern city of Changchun to counter the CCP’s hateful narrative about their meditation practice, Falun Gong, which centers on values of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.
