There’s nothing like the passing of a few years to help people look back fondly at times of famine, classicide and bewildering cruelty. Or so it would seem with the emerging trend for “red tourism” in China, where people joyfully don period costume and re-enact significant chapters of the Cultural Revolution. Now one of the country’s biggest developers Wanda Group is ploughing $1.74bn (€1.53bn) into a theme park dedicated to glorifying the formation of the Communist party. The park will sit in the party’s birthplace, Yan’an, with construction beginning in 2019 with completion by the first half of 2021 – in time for the Chinese Communist party’s centenary celebrations.

Today the cameras start rolling at the European Film Awards in Seville. The programme for the 31st edition of what is sometimes known as the European Oscars includes this year’s Cannes-selected Italian revenge drama Dogman, Swedish genre-blurring Border and Polish Cold War, which leads the charge for awards with five nominations. Though critically acclaimed, most of this year’s nominations didn’t manage to translate critical success to the box office. Film-making in Europe is much less financially driven than in the US and distributing to other countries remains a problem. Netflix’s plan to launch a European production hub in Madrid next year is likely to shake up the European industry.