South Korean director Bong Joon Ho's Palme d'Or-winning film "Parasite" was dropped from China's first film festival due to "technical reasons".
The screening of the critically-acclaimed movie was cancelled on Sunday as the closing film of the 10-day festival in Xining, Qinghai province, reported Variety.
The festival seeks to support new talent by focusing on Chinese directors' first and second films.
"Parasite" is an audaciously original take on the sharp rich-poor divide and its shocking repercussions in the city of Seoul. Joon-Ho is the second Asian director in succession to win the Palme d'Or, after Japan's Hirokazu Kore-eda, who won last year for the film "Shoplifters".
The organisers of the festival released a statement on their official social media account the night before, which read: "The closing screening of 'Parasite' originally scheduled for July 28 has been canceled for technical reasons."
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