Shanghai Movie Pageant Unveils 2024 Competitors Lineup

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 in recent times, the lineup additionally features a bevy of European, Japanese and Central Asian motion pictures, however not a single movie from the U.S. or South Korea.

Essentially the most anticipated movie from the pageant’s 14-title important 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 large native stars Huang Bo and Ni Ni. Guan wowed critics on the Cannes Movie Pageant only a week in the past together with his darkly comedian thriller Black Canine, which took house 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 His WWII tentpole The Eight Hundred was scheduled to open the 2019 version of the occasion, but it surely was withdrawn on the final minute resulting from reported censorship points (modifications have been later made to the movie and it turned a huge blockbuster). Little has been revealed to the Western press about Guan’s newest, A Man and a Lady, however his current important and industrial scorching streak will make it one of many pageant’s most in-demand tickets.

Chinese language director Wei Shujun’s characteristic Don’t Fear, Be Joyful 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 characteristic 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 characteristic in 9 years and tells the story of a younger man raised in rural Japan by deaf mother and father. Considered one of Japan’s most distinguished feminine filmmakers, O beforehand noticed her 2014 movie The Gentle 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 under.

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