The 9th Pingyao International Film Festival has unveiled the 22 titles set to play in its Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragon sections, and revea
The 9th Pingyao International Film Festival has unveiled the 22 titles set to play in its Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragon sections, and revealed that One Battle After Another will open its galas selection.
The festival, founded by renowned director Jia Zhangke, is set to run from September 24-30 in the walled city of Pingyao, in China’s Shanxi province.
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The Crouching Tigers strand, made up of emerging international filmmakers, will give a China premiere to My Father’s Shadow by the UK’s Akinola Davies Jr and The President’s Cake, which saw Iraqi filmmaker Hasan Hadi win the Camera d’Or at Cannes for best debut. There will also be Asian premieres for Lost Land by Japan’s Akio Fujimoto and The World Of Love by South Korea’s Yoon Ga-eun.
In the Hidden Dragons section, featuring the first or second films of Chinese directors, there will be world premieres for Yan Kun-ao’s Jet Lag In Summer, Meng Xing’s Happy Girls, Qi Yanyan’s documentary The Toddling Youths, Zheng Xusong’s documentary A Long Way Home and Ko-shang Shen’s Deep Quiet Room.
Set to open the festival’s galas strand is Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland.
Further gala titles include Sho Miyake’s Locarno award-winner Two Seasons, Two Strangers; Koji Fukada’s Love On Trial; and Tetsuya Mariko’s Dear Stranger, all from Japan. The section will also feature Kleber Mendonca Filho’s The Secret Agent, Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, Dominik Moll’s Case137, Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value and Saeed Roustayi’s Woman And Child.
Hidden Dragons
Jet Lag In Summer (HK-US)
Dir. Yan Kun-Ao
Happy Girls (China)
Dir. Meng Xing
Guo Ran (China)
Dir. Li Dongme
Amoeba (Sing-Neth-Fr-Sp-S Kor)
Dir. Siyou Tan
The Toddling Youths (China)
Dir. Qi Yanyan
A Long Way Home (China)
Dir. Zheng Xusong
Nighttime Sounds (China)
Dir. Zhang Zhongchen
Deep Quiet Room (Tai-It)
Dir. Ko-Shang Shen
#4 Road To Vendetta (HK)
Dir. Njo Kui Ying
Another World (HK)
Dir. Tommy Ng Kai Chung
West Border (China)
Dir. Luo Yan
Crouching Tigers
Rebuilding (US)
Dir. Max Walker-Silverman
The Last Blossom (Japan)
Dir. Baku Kinoshita
My Father’s Shadow (Nig-UK)
Dir. Akinola Davies Jr
Wild Foxes (Fr-Bel)
Dir. Valéry Carnoy
The Massacre Of Gilles De Rais (Port)
Dir. Juan Branco
Reedland (Neth-Bel)
Dir. Sven Bresser
Lost Land (Japan-Fr-Malay-Get)
Dir. Akio Fujimoto
The World Of Love (S Kor)
Dir. Yoon Ga-Eun
Adam’s Sake (Bel-Fr)
Dir. Laura Wandel
Dandelion’s Odyssey (Fr-Bel)
Dir. Momoko Seto
The President’s Cake (Iraq-US-Qat)
Dir. Hasan Hadi
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