''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 The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary f ...

. 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 The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...

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 {{hist-documentary-film-stub