Professor Kees Van Oostrum from Shanghai Theatre Academy, a jury member of the 14th Beijing International Film Festival, says it is better to "know your own culture first" when sharing cross-cultural teaching experience "because if you're not familiar with your own culture, you have nothing to fall back on."

Talking about Chinese culture, the professor said learning the way Chinese people think, write and interpret poetry and visual imagery was amazing but suggested that film students first master their own talent and find themselves within their own culture.

"When I started to get more involved with master classes all around the world, I started to meet these young people that I thought were just concentrating too much in the myth and too little on their own talent and their own culture," he said.

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