Upcoming festival offers Kazakh viewers a cinematic treat

Six movies, including Go Away Mr Tumor, Jackie Chan's action comedy Kung Fu Yoga and The ILI River, will be screened during the upcoming Chinese film exhibition in Kazakhstan. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Meanwhile, Jean-Jacques Annaud's wildlife drama Wolf Totem, a Sino-French coproduction centering on the relationship between humans and animals in the vast Inner Mongolia autonomous region's prairie, is also being screened, as is Go Away Mr Tumor, which represented China at the Oscars in 2015.

Kung Fu Yoga took home 18 million yuan ($2.63 million), Wolf Totem earned 7 million yuan and Go Away Mr Tumor took 5.1 million yuan, making them all top-grossing hits in China.

The other three films are less known.

One of them, Genuine Love is based on the real-life tale of a Uygur mother who adopted 19 children from six ethnic groups.

The ILI River chronicles the changes in a family that raises bees. The 105-minute feature has won several awards at international film events, such as the San Diego International Kids Film Festival.