KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4, 2026 - (ACN Newswire) - An award-winning documentary about six international students finding theirfooting in Shanghai drew students, academics and filmmakers to the Golden Screen Cinema (GSC) MyTOWN on 1August 2026, for its special Malaysian screening presented by Fudan University and YoyWow.

The Moon Is Yours - follows students from Italy, Zimbabwe, Croatia, Russia, the United States and Thailand through18 months at Fudan University. It is less a film about studying abroad than about what surrounds it: the languagestumbles, the homesickness, the friendships formed across six different first languages, and the slow work of making an unfamiliar city feel like home.

The screening arrives at a moment of deepening educational ties between the two countries. More than 5,000Malaysian students were enrolled at Chinese higher education institutions as of April 2026, according to the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Malaysia.

Over 80 guests attended the screening event, including faculty and students from Kuala Lumpur University of Science and Technology, which has been instrumental in promoting the documentary, as well as representatives from various local and international universities in Malaysia, all coming together to witness the film’s premiere in Malaysia.

Rather than dwelling on academic achievement, the documentary lingers on ordinary moments - a shared meal, adifficult phone call home, a small breakthrough in a lecture hall - through which its six protagonists build independence and a working understanding of one another.

Mr Wu Bei, Director; Fudan University alumnus, said the film set out to show international education through thepeople living it: "The students in this documentary come from very different places, but they carry the same hopes and the same uncertainties as young people anywhere," he said.

"We wanted to show that studying abroad is not only an academic journey. It is also one of self-discovery, of friendship, and of learning to see the world through someone else's experience. Bringing the film to Malaysia gives students, academics and audiences here a chance to exchange perspectives, and to consider how education andstorytelling can bring societies closer together."

Professor Tang Jun, Producer; Department of Journalism, Fudan University, said that the documentary reflectsthe human side of international education beyond academic achievements: "A university is often described through its rankings and its research output. That tells you very little about what actually happens inside it.

"Documentary work lets us show the human side of a campus - the friendships, the misunderstandings, the small adjustments people make for each other. For a School of Journalism, this is also how we teach. Our students learn to observe and to tell someone else's story with care."

Yu Chuchu, a student from the School of Journalism at Fudan University, served as a full-time crew memberfor the documentary commented on the filmmaking approach: "We filmed for over a year, and most of what madethe final cut was not planned. It was the students cooking together at midnight or sitting quietly after an exhausting day. Those were the moments that told us who they were becoming.

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