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 films, however not a single movie from the U.S. or South Korea.

Essentially the most anticipated movie from the pageant’s 14-title foremost competitors in 2024 is undoubtedly Chinese language director Guan Hu’s drama A Man and a Girl, that includes a pair of lead performances from the massive native stars Huang Bo and Ni Ni. Guan wowed critics on the Cannes Movie Pageant only a week in the past along with his darkly comedian thriller Black Canine, which took dwelling the French pageant’s prestigious Un Sure Regard prize. Guan additionally isn’t any stranger to the Shanghai pageant. His WWII tentpole The Eight Hundred was scheduled to open the 2019 version of the occasion, however it was withdrawn on the final minute as a consequence of reported censorship points (modifications had been later made to the movie and it turned an enormous blockbuster). Little has been revealed to the Western press about Guan’s newest, A Man and a Girl, however his current essential and industrial sizzling streak will make it one of many pageant’s most in-demand tickets.

Chinese language director Wei Shujun’s function Don’t Fear, Be Completely happy 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 function debut, The Summer time Is Gone (2016), was awarded greatest movie at Taipei’s Golden Horse Movie Pageant.

Japanese director Mipo O’s drama Dwelling in Two Worlds makes for one more spotlight. The movie is O’s first function in 9 years and tells the story of a younger man raised in rural Japan by deaf dad and mom. One among Japan’s most outstanding feminine filmmakers, O beforehand noticed her 2014 movie The Mild 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’ greatest 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 complete 2024 Shanghai Worldwide Movie Pageant choice is beneath.

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