Pingyao Worldwide Movie Pageant (PYIFF) has introduced the line-up for its eighth version, together with its Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons sections, and opening movie A River With out Tears.
The competition additionally introduced that it’s screening a restored model of Chen Kaige’s award-winning Yellow Earth, to mark the fortieth anniversary of the movie, one of many first main titles of China’s Fifth Era motion, which gained a Silver Leopard at Locarno in addition to greatest cinematography for Zhang Yimou at Nantes Three Continents Movie Pageant.
Opening movie A River With out Tears, the second function of feminine director Liu Juan, is the story of a father who insists on discovering out the reality of his daughter’s suicide. Government produced by Chinese language auteur and Pingyao competition founder Jia Zhangke, the movie will even display screen as considered one of 12 titles within the competition’s Hidden Dragons part for rising Chinese language filmmakers (see full checklist beneath).
In the meantime, the Crouching Tigers competitors for rising worldwide filmmakers contains the China, Asia and worldwide premieres of a number of movies which have been making waves on the worldwide competition circuit – together with Matthew Rankin’s Common Language, which is Canada’s submission for the Finest Worldwide Function class of the Oscars, Magnus Von Horn’s The Lady With The Needle, Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’ Sujo, and Neo Sora’s Happyend (see full checklist beneath).
Seven movies are receiving Gala screenings on the competition together with Patricia Mazuy’s Visiting Hours, Roberto Minervini’s The Damned, Hiroshi Okuyama’s My Sunshine and Hong Kong filmmaker Yon Fan’s Crossing Years. Different sections embody Made-in-Shanxi for movies from the province the place the Pingyao competition is held, and a particular presentation of He Jianjun’s Huang Denglin.
Chen’s Yellow Earth will display screen in a Retrospective part of basic movies entitled “Earth” which will even display screen restored variations of Auguste Francois’ Pictures De Chine, Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali and Gaston Melies’ The Ruins Of Angkor, amongst different basic titles.
Pingyao is happening in a brand new time slot this yr – shifting from its typical October timing to run forward of the Busan movie competition. Marco Mueller, who co-founded the competition with Jia, stop final yr and is at the moment creative director of Taormina Movie Pageant in Sicily, Italy.
The competition introduced earlier this yr that Lin Xudong has been formally appointed as creative director, overseeing a programming staff that features Naoki Kamiya and Junko Fukatsu for foreign-language movies, Wu Jueren for Chinese language language movies, and Track Jia for shorts. Pingyao has additionally launched a movie fund, Wings Worldwide, to assist 5 non-Chinese language movie initiatives every year.
Pingyao Worldwide Movie Pageant 2024:
HIDDEN DRAGONS:
Good day, Spring (China) [Debut]
Dir: Ma Lanhua
Asian Premiere
Village Music (China)
Dir: Wang Lina
World Premiere
A Track River (China) [Documentary]
Dir: Zhu Xin
World Premiere
Karst (China) [Debut]
Dir: Yang Suiyi
World Premiere
Chinatown Cha-Cha (China) [Documentary, Debut]
Dir: Luka Yuanyuan Yang
World Premiere
Floating Clouds Obscure The Solar (China) [Debut]
Dir: Shen Tao
World Premiere
A River With out Tears (China)
Dir: Liu Juan
World Premiere
True Love, For As soon as In My Life (Hong Kong, China) [Debut]
Dir: Siu Koon Ho
World Premiere
Reflections In The Lake (China)
Dir: Zhai Yixiang
World Premiere
Betwixt And Between (China) [Debut]
Dir: Zhou Quan
World Premiere
Stars And The Moon (China)
Dir: Tang Yongkang
Asian Premiere
Inexperienced Wave (China)
Dir: Xu Lei
World Premiere
CROUCHING TIGERS:
Savanna And The Mountain (Portugal, Uruguay)
Dir: Paulo Carneiro
Asian Premiere
Common Language (Canada)
Dir: Matthew Rankin
Asian Premiere
Good One (US) [Debut]
Dir: India Donaldson
China Premiere
One thing Outdated, One thing New, One thing Borrowed (Argentina, Spain, Portugal)
Dir: Hernán Rosselli
Asian Premiere
Christmas Eve In Miller’s Level (US)
Dir: Tyler Taormina
China Premiere
The Lady With The Needle (Denmark)
Dir: Magnus Von Horn
China Premiere
Sujo (US, Mexico, France)
Dirs: Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez
China Mainland Premiere
The Story Of Souleymane (France)
Dir: Boris Lojkine
Asian Premiere
I Noticed Three Black Lights (Colombia, Mexico, France, Germany) [Debut]
Dir: Santiago Lozano Álvarez
Asian Premiere
My Summer season With Irène (Italy, France)
Dir: Carlo Sironi
Worldwide Premiere
The Sparrow In The Chimney (Switzerland)
Dir: Ramon Zürcher
China Premiere
Happyend (Japan, US)
Dir: Neo Sora
Asian Premiere
