China Shuts the Gate The Gate of Heavenly Peace .
Nobody puts a damper on a film festival quite like China.
Of course, few nations have had so much experience. Widely lauded as a balanced treatment of the 1989 student demonstrations and the crackdown on Tiananmen Square, the documentary had nevertheless provoked China's fierce opposition at several other film festivals around the world. Privately, officials said Samsung's entertainment subsidiary was worried about its movie-distribution plans in China. Three of the festival's five judges quit, along with some support staff and much of the volunteer corps. It's only thinking about its short-term economic profit.