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URL:https://events.nfb.ca/events/the-zoo/
SUMMARY:The Zoo
DESCRIPTION:TORONTO PREMIERE AT TORONTO REEL ASIAN\nINTERNATIONAL FILM FEST
 IVAL!\nPart of ‘Spatial Awareness (Youth Shorts Program)’\n?️ Monday
 \,  November 11\,  2019 | 1:30 p.m.\n*To buy tickets\, please click here
 .\n&nbsp\;\n\nJulia Kwan\n2018 | 11 min 51 sec\n\n\nAcclaimed Vancouver f
 ilmmaker Julia Kwan’s first animated film is a poignant visual poem that
  explores themes of abandonment\, home\, and change\, while touching on so
 me of the debates swirling around two seemingly disparate subjects: the de
 cline of ethnic neighbourhoods and urban zoos.\n\nInspired by a real bear 
 that once lived in Vancouver’s Stanley Park\, The Zoo follows the para
 llel and intersecting lives of Kut\, a polar bear cub\, and Jun\, a Chines
 e boy who first visits Kut during the zoo’s glory days and returns numer
 ous times over the decades to observe the majestic captive pacing his ceme
 nt jail. Eventually\, they both enter their twilight years\; the elderly J
 un lives in a cramped room in Chinatown\, while Kut ekes out his final day
 s in a zoo that’s closing.\n\nCharming yet bittersweet\, Julia Kwan’s 
 use of cutout animation makes a statement about ethnic neighbourhoods\, ge
 ntrification\, and abandonment of the elderly. The Zoo leaves its viewer
 s with a lingering and profound sense of hope that home can be found withi
 n.\n\nKwan\, who made her feature film debut with Eve and the Fire Horse\
 , won the coveted Special Jury Prize for World Cinema at Sundance. In her 
 2014 NFB feature doc\, Everything Will Be\, she explored the ongoing gent
 rification of Vancouver’s Chinatown.\n\nThe Zoo is produced by Fire Ho
 rse Productions Ltd. (Julia Kwan\, Ruth Vincent) in co-production with the
  National Film Board of Canada\, BC &amp\; Yukon Studio (Shirley Vercruyss
 e\, producer\; Michael Fukushima\, executive producer).\n\n\n\n\n&nbsp\;\
 n\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n&nbsp\;
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