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Huanxi also operates a subscription streaming platform, which the company envisions as an HBO-like destination for premium film and series content. At the recent European Film Market in Berlin, Huanxi picked up the Chinese streaming rights to a trio of prestige European dramas, including Julian Schnabel's Vincent Van Gogh biopic At Eternity's Gate, German filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Oscar nominee Never Look Away and the upcoming period soccer film The Keeper. The many Chinese directors the studio has under contract are also producing content exclusively for the platform. Huanxi also recently hit its first difficult patch in Berlin, however. The studio's second major festival contender, Zhang Yimou's hotly anticipated period drama One Second, was abruptly pulled from the Berlin International Film Festival's competition lineup because of suspected censorship issues at home in Beijing. The status of the film and the repercussion of the incident remain unclear.