Mao’s Last Dancer

2009 | 1 h 57mins |U/A 13+| Drama | Romance

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.

Starring: Amanda Schull , Chi Cao , Chengwu Guo.