The Beijing Worldwide Movie Competition has developed a repute for placing a highlight on feminine voices in cinema.
Its fifteenth version, operating April 18-26, is constant that development with its sixth annual “Girls’s Voice” part, that includes the likes of Walter Salles’ Oscar winner I’m Nonetheless Right here, the political autobiographical drama starring Fernanda Torres as a Brazilian girl whose dissident husband disappears, and Mike Leigh’s Exhausting Truths, his despair comedy-drama with Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
“Lately, feminine creators and their tales have continued to emerge, and the voices of girls on display have turn into extra various and highly effective,” the Beijing competition highlights. “These works proceed to interrupt boundaries in type and theme, bringing us richer and extra multi-dimensional feminine expressions.”
This 12 months’s lineup “brings collectively masters and rising creators from everywhere in the world” who “present the complicated faces of girls” in varied conditions. “This isn’t solely a cinematic feast but additionally a profound dialogue about girls’s feelings, our bodies and future.”
Additionally featured within the “Girls’s Voice” part at Beijing are Sarah Friedland‘s Venice Horizons greatest director, greatest debut movie and greatest actress winner Acquainted Contact, about an octogenarian transferring into an assisted residing facility; Rungano Nyoni’s Zambian household drama On Changing into a Guinea Fowl; Sandhya Suri’s Santosh, the Indian police procedural about two girls forming an unlikely alliance; François Ozon’s When Fall Is Coming, a black comedy a couple of retiree with a sophisticated previous; and Magnus von Horn’s The Lady With the Needle, loosely based mostly on the story of Denmark’s most notorious serial killer, portrayed by Trine Dyrholm.
The primary competitors program on the fifteenth Beijing movie competition may also characteristic girls’s tales, resembling Frieda’s Case, the characteristic debut of Maria Brendle a couple of girls on trial for the homicide of her younger son, and Tobias Schmutzler, Kevin Schmutzler, Apuu Mourine, and Vallentine Chelluget’s Nawi: Pricey Future Me, Kenya’s Oscar submission a couple of younger lady fightinhg towards a compelled marriage and for her schooling and future. Chinese language actor-director Jiang Wen (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Let the Bullets Fly) will function the top of the primary competitors jury on the competition.
