The Beijing Worldwide Movie Competition has developed a repute for placing a highlight on feminine voices in cinema.
Its fifteenth version, working April 18-26, is constant that pattern 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 Laborious 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 out to be extra various and highly effective,” the Beijing competition highlights. “These works proceed to interrupt boundaries in kind and theme, bringing us richer and extra multi-dimensional feminine expressions.”
This 12 months’s lineup “brings collectively masters and rising creators from all around the world” who “present the advanced faces of girls” in numerous conditions. “This isn’t solely a cinematic feast but in addition a profound dialogue about ladies’s feelings, our bodies and future.”
Additionally featured within the “Girls’s Voice” part at Beijing are Sarah Friedland‘s Venice Horizons finest director, finest debut movie and finest actress winner Acquainted Contact, about an octogenarian shifting into an assisted dwelling facility; Rungano Nyoni’s Zambian household drama On Turning into a Guinea Fowl; Sandhya Suri’s Santosh, the Indian police procedural about two ladies forming an unlikely alliance; François Ozon’s When Fall Is Coming, a black comedy a few retiree with a sophisticated previous; and Magnus von Horn’s The Woman With the Needle, loosely based mostly on the story of Denmark’s most notorious serial killer, portrayed by Trine Dyrholm.
The major competitors program on the fifteenth Beijing movie competition can even characteristic ladies’s tales, comparable to Frieda’s Case, the characteristic debut of Maria Brendle a few ladies 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 few younger woman fightinhg towards a pressured marriage and for her training and future. Chinese language actor-director Jiang Wen (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Let the Bullets Fly) will function the top of the major competitors jury on the competition.