Lean In Media is thrilled to announce the co-distribution the Chinese box office phenomenon Twenty Two in the U.K. and Europe with The Next Day Agency.
Director Guo Ke follows his multiple-award winning short Thirty Two with the searching and highly moving documentary Twenty Two, which again focuses on the subject of Chinese ‘comfort women’ during World War II. One of the rare documentaries to be granted a certificate in China, on its release in September 2017, the film became a box-office phenomenon and China’s highest-grossing and most-popular documentary of all time.
It was officially selected for competition in Busan International Film Festival’s Wide Angle Section, screened at the Chinese Visual Festival in London, the Royal Anthropological Film Festival (RAI) and the German International Ethnographic Film Festival.
For any screening requests and acquisition inquiries, please contact aiping@leaninmedia.co.uk.