![Having my obligatory Narita mcd's breakfast before the f... on Twitpic](http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/3u0nl8.jpg)
I then slept through more than 7 hours of my 11 hour flight to Amsterdam. Waking up only for the two meals, and watching I AM LOVE, starring Tilda Swinton (it was in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2009, the same year Kingyo was shown).
Nice film.
I then caught maybe half of MEGAMIND, but got interrupted when the plane arrived at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam.
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A car picked up and took me to Rotterdam, it was a 1-hour journey.
When I reached the main film festival building, I picked up my bag, and ensured that the press desk was covered with promotional items for THE TIGER FACTORY and EXHALATION.
![EXHALATION & TIGER FACTORY items at Rotterdam Film Festival press desk #iffr](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5254/5396457605_866a193c4d.jpg)
Chinling, one of the festival programmers, brought us to the Wuxia-themed WATER TIGER INN, where me, Matthieu (Bratislava Film Fest director, and many others) and Jessica Kam (PIANO IN THE FACTORY producer) could have a quick bite.
It was to my amusement that after serving us drinks, the waitress got into a heated encounter with a beggar who just walked into the place. And then they got into some martial arts stuff, and me and the customers were instantly turned into extras of a wuxia film!
Here's a video of their performance.
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Awesome. Yesterday was the first day of their 7-day performance, where a treasure-hunting story was supposed to take shape as it goes on.
I managed to take photo with the actress after it ended.
![The wuxia-themed WATER TIGER INN at Rotterdam film festival](http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5095/5397152551_235b66a54a.jpg)
It's 10:17AM right now. EXHALATION will be screening at 2PM, exciting.