Lu Chuan finds new film-makers a bold lot

Chinese filmmaker Lu Chuan is once again in the spotlight with his short film The Road to Our Beautiful Life, which is showing at the China Pavilion's multi-screen theater at the Shanghai expo.

He not only sketches four generations of Chinese in eight minutes, but also shares his definition of the so-called seventh-generation directors.

"All the sixth-generation directors are of the same age, share similar family backgrounds, have been nurtured by foreign film festivals, and deal with similar issues in their films," says Lu. "But the seventh generation, or the new generation of filmmakers, deal with a variety of themes and present a range of personal interpretations."