International Courant
The Shanghai Worldwide Movie Pageant unveiled the competitors choice for its upcoming twenty sixth version Wednesday, that includes a lineup characteristically heavy on Chinese language titles. As lately, the lineup additionally features a bevy of European, Japanese and Central Asian motion pictures, however not a single movie from the US or South Korea.
Essentially the most anticipated movie from the pageant’s 14-title essential competitors in 2024 is undoubtedly Chinese language director Guan Hu’s drama A Man and a Lady, that includes a pair of lead performances from the massive native stars Huang Bo and Ni Ni. Guan wowed critics on the Cannes Movie Pageant only a week in the past along with his darkly comedian thriller Black Canine, which took residence the French pageant’s prestigious Un Sure Regard prize. Guan additionally is not any stranger to the Shanghai pageant. His WWII tentpole The Eight Hundred was scheduled to open the 2019 version of the occasion, however it was withdrawn on the final minute attributable to reported censorship points (adjustments have been later made to the movie and it turned a large blockbuster). Little has been revealed to the Western press about Guan’s newest, A Man and a Lady, however his current essential and industrial scorching streak will make it one of many pageant’s most in-demand tickets.
Chinese language director Wei Shujun’s function Do not Fear, Be Glad is one other competitors standout, as is Zhang Dalei’s Starfall. Wei’s most up-to-date movie, Solely the River Flows, premiered at Cannes final yr, with THR’s critic summing it up as “a puzzle-like homage to the noir style.” Zhang’s function debut, The Summer season Is Gone (2016), was awarded finest movie at Taipei’s Golden Horse Movie Pageant.
Japanese director Mipo O’s drama Residing in Two Worlds makes for an additional spotlight. The movie is O’s first function in 9 years and tells the story of a younger man raised in rural Japan by deaf dad and mom. One in all Japan’s most distinguished feminine filmmakers, O beforehand noticed her 2014 movie The Mild Shines Solely There chosen by her nation as its official submission to the Oscars.
The twenty sixth Shanghai Worldwide Movie Pageant runs June 14 to 23. Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung (Oscar-nominated in 1994 for Scent of the Inexperienced Papaya and Cannes’ finest director winner final yr with The Style of Issues) has been named the pageant’s president of the jury for the principle competitors part. Becoming a member of Tran on the jury are Australian director Rolf de Heer, German filmmaker Matthias Glasner, Hong Kong star Tony Leung Ka-fai, Argentinian director Santiago Mitre, Chinese language actress Zhou Xun and Tibetan director Sonthar Gyal.
The total 2024 Shanghai Worldwide Movie Pageant choice is beneath.
Important Competitors
A BATHROOM OF ONE’S OWN
Director: Lucía Casañ Rodríguez
Nation/Area: Spain
World Premiere
A MAN AND A WOMAN
Director: GUAN Hu
Nation/Area: Mainland, China/Hong Kong
World Premiere
ADULT
Director: Mariano Gonzalez
Nation/Area: Argentina
World Premiere
ANOTHER GERMAN TANK STORY
Director: Jannis Alexander Kiefer
Nation/Area: Germany
World Premiere
CHASING JOHNNY
Director: Baptiste Debraux
Nation/Area: France
Worldwide Premiere
DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY
Director: WEI Shujun
Nation/Area: China
World Premiere
THE HEDGEHOG
Director: GU Changwei
Nation/Area: China
World Premiere
EVERY SECOND CHANCE
Director: Vito Palmieri
Nation/Area: Italy
Worldwide Premiere
LIVING IN TWO WORLDS
Director: Mipo O
Nation/Area: Japan
World Premiere
SILENCE OF THE SEASHELL
Director: Kamar Ahmad Simon
Nation/Area: Bangladesh/Germany
World Premiere
SNOWFLAKES IN MY YARD
Director: Bakur Bakuradze
Nation/Area: Georgia/Russia
World Premiere
STARFALL
Director: ZHANG Dalei
Nation/Area: China
World Premiere
THE DIVORCE
Director: Daniyar Salamat
Nation/Area: Kazakhstan
World Premiere
THE WASTEMAN
Director: Ahmad Bahrami
Nation/Area: Iran
World Premiere
Asian New Expertise Competitors
3 DAYS, 3 MURDER
Director: Masoud Amini Tirani
Nation/Area: Iran
World Premiere
BIRD OF A DIFFERENT FEATHER
Director: Manohara Ok
Nation/Area: India
World Premiere
DREAMING OF MOTHER AND HOME
Director: WANG Xinrui
Nation/Area: China
World Premiere
FISHBONE
Director: ZHANG Xuyu
Nation/Area: China
World Premiere
FRIDAY, FUNFAIR
Director: ZENG Zhi
Nation/Area: China
World Premiere
HABITATS
Director: ZHANG Luoping
Nation/Area: China
World Premiere
IN THE NAME OF FIRE
Director: Abhilash Sharma
Nation/Area: India
World Premiere
LONGER THAN A DAY
Director: Malika Mukhamejan
Nation/Area: Russia/Kazakhstan/Italy
World Premiere
THE ABSENT
Director: LU Dan
Nation/Area: China
World Premiere
THE LOST DAUGHTER
Director: ZANG Lianrong, XU Ruogu
Nation/Area: China
World Premiere
VICISSITUDE
Director: Takuro Ijichi
Nation/Area: Japan
World Premiere
Animation Movie
BUFFALO KIDS
Director: Pedro Solis, Juan Jesús García Galocha ‘Galo’
Nation/Area: Spain
Asian Premiere
LIVING AWAY
Director: Kristina Dufková
Nation/Area: Czech, Slovakia, France
Asian Premiere
THE GLASSWORKER
Director: Usman Riaz
Nation/Area: Pakistan/United States
Asian Premiere
THE ROYAL CAT
Director: CAO Liang
Nation/Area: China
World Premiere
THE COLORS WITHIN
Director: Naoko Yamada
Nation/Area: Japan
Asian Premiere
Documentary Movie
ALL AND NOTHING
Director: Liao I-Ling Chu Po-Ying
Nation/Area: Taiwan, China
Worldwide Premiere
GERI’S WISH
Director: Tonislav Hristov
Nation/Area: Finland Bulgaria
World Premiere
MS. HU’S GARDEN
Director: PAN Zhiqi
Nation/Area: China
World Premiere
REQUIEM FOR A TRIBE
Director: Marjan Khosravi
Nation/Area: Iran/Spain/Qatar
World Premiere
THE LANDSCAPE AND THE FURY
Director: Nicole Vögele
Nation/Area: Switzerland/Bosnia and Herzegovina
Worldwide Premiere
