Cast members Ni Ni (L) and Jing Boran attend the premiere of film "Up in the Wind" in Beijing on December 26, 2013. The movie opens on December 31. [Photo/xinhuanet.com/ent]

His eclectic selection of Chinese cinema reflects the growing fascination here with Chinese culture.

While China has become Australia's key trading partner -- with two-way trade topping 120 billion US dollars last year accounting for a third of Australia's total exports -- it is the collision of culture in modern China that now holds the torch for so may Australians young and old.

Since 2007 Kraicer has been a programmer at the Vancouver International Film Festival, and has worked as a consultant for the Venice, Udine, Dubai, and Rotterdam film festivals, he told Xinhua the SFF's Focus on China program tries to bring together as dispirate and eclectic a collection of Chinese modern cinema as possible.

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