Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) has unveiled the main competitors choices for its twenty fifth version (June 9-18), which would be the first to be held in a totally bodily format with worldwide company since earlier than the pandemic.
The competition’s Golden Goblet Awards includes 5 sections – Main Competition, Asian New Talent, Animation Film, Documentary Film and Short Film. Winners will probably be introduced at a ceremony within the Shanghai Grand Theater on June 17.
SIFF’s foremost competitors will display 12 movies, together with Mom, Is That You?!, from Japanese veteran filmmaker Yoji Yamada; European titles together with Muyeres, from Spanish director Marta Lallana, and The Chapel, from Belgium’s Dominique Deruddere; Indian director Haobam Paban Kumar’s Joseph’s Son; and three Chinese titles – Liu Jiayin’s All Ears, Johnathan Li’s Dust To Dust and Chen Shizhong’s Good Autumn, Mommy.
Poland’s Jerzy Skolimowski is heading the jury for the principle competitors, which additionally contains India’s Nandita Das, Indonesia’s Garin Nugroho, German DoP Lutz Reitemeier and China’s Song Jia, Vivian Qu and Zhang Lu.
Asian New Talent has chosen 12 movies from China, Iran, Japan, Laos, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, together with two Hong Kong-China co-productions – Lawrence Kan’s In Broad Daylight and Nick Cheuk’s Time Still Turns The Pages.
See beneath for the total line-up of SIFF’s competitors sections and chosen titles.
As beforehand introduced, UK filmmaker Mike Leigh will probably be featured in a Tribute To Masters part, screening eight of his works, together with Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Mr. Turner.
The competition runs concurrently business platform, SIFF Market, which this 12 months is transferring to Longemont Hotel, inserting it nearer to SIFF’s foremost venue on the Shanghai Film Art Center and adjoining Crowne Plaza Hotel.
SIFF MAIN COMPETITION:
All Ears – Director: Liu Jiayin (China)
Dust To Dust – Director: Jonathan Li (China)
Good Autumn, Mommy – Director: Chen Shizhong (China)
Joseph’s Son – Director: Haobam Paban Kumar (India)
Kindling – Director: Connor O’Hara (UK)
Mom, Is That You?! – Director: Yôji Yamada (Japan)
Muyeres – Director: Marta Lallana (Spain)
Nina – Director: Oksana Bychkova (Russia/Georgia)
The Annoyed – Director: Mehdi Fard Ghaderi (Iran)
The Chapel – Director: Dominique Deruddere (Belgium)
The First Day Of My Life – Director: Paolo Genovese (Italy)
Yoko – Director: Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (Japan)
SIFF ASIAN NEW TALENT:
1.5 Horsepower – Director: Rasool Kahani (Iran)
Cause Of Death: Unknown – Director: Ali Zarnegar (Iran)
Day Dreaming – Director: Wang Zichuan (China)
Gone With The Boat – Director: Chen Xiaoyu (China)
In Broad Daylight – Director: Lawrence Kan (Hong Kong, China)
Love, My Way – Director: Liu Bing (China)
May – Director: Luo Dong (China)
People Who Talk To Plushies Are Kind – Director: Yurina Kaneko (Japan)
Qash – Director: Aisultan Seit (Kazakhstan)
Sunday – Director: Shokir Kholikov (Uzbekistan)
The Signal – Director: Lee Phongsavanh (Laos)
Time Still Turns The Pages – Director: Nick Cheuk (Hong Kong, China)
SIFF ANIMATION FILM:
Dolphin Boy – Director: Mohammad Kheirandish (Iran/Türkiye)
Four Souls Of Coyote – Director: Áron Gauder (Hungary)
Gonta: The Story Of The Two-Named Dog In The Fukushima Disaster – Director: Akio Nishizawa (Japan)
Master Zhong – Director: Wang Yuxi/Huang Shanchuan (China)
The Inseparables – Director: Jérémie Degruson (Belgium/France/Spain)
SIFF DOCUMENTARY FILM:
Anxious In Beirut – Director: Zakaria Jaber (Jordan/Lebanon/Qatar/Spain)
Leap Of Faith – Director: Yang Lina (China)
Moses’ Spies – Director: Itzik Lerner (Israel)
The Caravan – Director: Núria Clavero/Aitor Palacios (Spain/Mexico)
The Passion Of Mahmoud – Director: Davoud Abdolmaleki (Iran)
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