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With ticket sales slumping after Chinese New Year, Beijing's regulators have begun granting last-minute permission for imported movies to open in March. 'Persian Lessons' will test China's market for emotionally potent foriegn indie filmmaking, which had been on the rise prior to the pandemic.
Vadim Perelman's modestly budgeted holocaust drama
Persian Lessons has been set for release in China on March 19 — in the shadow of James Cameron's surprise
The well-regarded Belarusian-Russian film will pose a test of China's market for emotionally potent foreign indie filmmaking, which had been growing steadily before the disastrous onset of the pandemic.