Qiu Sheng’s SUBURBAN BIRDS Screens This Weekend at Webster University

Qiu Sheng’s SUBURBAN BIRDS (2018) screens at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood) Friday August 23rd, Saturday August 24th, and Sunday August 25th. The screenings begin at 7:30 each evening. Facebook invite can be found HERE.

A hit at Locarno and New Directors/New Films, Suburban Birds, the debut film from Qiu Sheng, was called a cross between Stand by Me and The Trial by The Hollywood Reporter upon its premiere. The story follows two young men named Hao—one a schoolboy who finds his friends keep turning up missing, the other an engineer who is investigating a series of sinkholes that have been appearing around a rapidly growing Chinese city. See this one early—it’s the type of film you’re likely to want to come back and catch again before its run with us ends.

In Mandarin with English subtitles.

Admission is:

$7 for the general public
$6 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$5 for Webster University staff and faculty

Free for Webster students with proper I.D.