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Located in Beijings bustling Chaoyang District, the Sanlitun area is home to the citys ever-growing expatriate community due to its vibrant nightlife and proximity to various embassies, not to mention its luxury shopping center that constitutes a veritable retail wonderland for those who have secured big salaries through relocation to the Concrete Dragon. Sanlituns social scene is enjoyed as much by self-consciously fashionable Beijingers as it is by foreigners, although the circumstances behind its big screen breakthrough in the independent comedy This is Sanlitun are very much in keeping with its status as the citys foremost ex-pat hangout. Icelandic director Róbert I. Douglas, who achieved early success at home with The Icelandic Dream (...