Chinese HIV/AIDS documentary to screen at Berlin film festival

MUMBAI: A Chinese documentary Together that deals with the discrimination against HIV/AIDS sufferers will screen at the upcoming Berlin International Film Festival. This is the only Chinese film to screen at the festival that runs from 10 to 20 February.

The documentary would feature in the Panorama section of the Berlinale‘s film program.

Director Gu Changwei and producer Zhao Liang were moved to make the documentary while shooting for another HIV/AIDS awareness film, A Tale of Magic on which people living with HIV/AIDS had featured. The documentary recorded how the six people with HIV/AIDS were found and persuaded to take part in the shooting process of the film.

The documentary, that released in China on 1 December last year, World AIDS Day, would help raise HIV/AIDS awareness in China and change public discrimination against HIV/AIDS.