''Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square'' (french: Le jour se lève sur la place Tienanmen) is a 1998
short animated documentary
The animated documentary (also known as anidoc) is a moving image form that combines animation and documentary. This form should not be confused with documentaries about movie and TV animation history that feature excerpts.
History
The fi ...
directed by Shui-Bo Wang and distributed by the
National Film Board of Canada
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. It is an autobiography about the director's life, career and ultimate disillusionment with the
Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil ...
. It was nominated for an
Academy Award
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for
Best Documentary Short, but lost to ''
The Personals''.
Other honours for the film included the
Gemini Award for Best History/Biography Documentary program, the
Yorkton Film Festival
Yorkton Film Festival (YFF) is an annual film festival held in late May in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada.
In 1947, the Yorkton Film Council (YFC) was founded and in 1950 the first international documentary film festival officially opened in we ...
Golden Sheaf Award for Best Documentary
Short Subject, and the award for Best Short Documentary at
Hot Docs.
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1998 films
1998 documentary films
English-language Canadian films
Documentary films about historical events
Canadian short documentary films
Canadian animated documentary films
Chinese documentary films
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in popular culture
Canadian Screen Award-winning television shows
National Film Board of Canada documentaries
Films about Chinese Canadians
Autobiographical documentary films
Documentary films about China
National Film Board of Canada short films
1990s English-language films
1990s Canadian films
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