China’s Hainan movie competition reveals new dates, competitors line-ups | Information

China’s Hainan Island Worldwide Movie Competition (HIIFF) is to happen from December 18-25, after being postponed at quick discover, and has revealed the titles in its characteristic and documentary competitions.

The fourth version of the competition, held within the metropolis of Sanya, was set to run from December 3-10 however was abruptly placed on maintain following an increase in Covid instances. Now, following the relief of pandemic measure in China over the previous week, the competition is again on and has unveiled its line-up of titles.

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The HIIFF Competitors, hosted by organisers China Media Group, contains 11 titles within the characteristic competitors; eight within the documentary competitors; and 10 shorts. They’ll compete for the Golden Coconut Awards.

HIIFF is overseen and curated by Marco Mueller, former director of Venice, Rome and Locarno movie festivals, who was named artistic director last month.

The characteristic competitors contains titles that debuted at Cannes corresponding to Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun, Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beasts, Clément Cogitore’s Sons Of Ramses and Louis Garrel’s The Harmless in addition to Venice award-winners Saint Omer by Alice Diop, Vera by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, World Conflict III by Houman Seyyedi and Trenque Lauquen by Laura Citarella.

Asian filmmakers within the line-up embrace Tibet’s Chakme Rinpoche with Georgia, China’s Sixue Qiao with The Wire Of Life and Chinese language artist-turned-director Ran Huang with UK-Hong Kong-Finland co-production What Stays.

The documentary competitors contains Thessaloniki winner A Marble Travelogue by Sean Wang and Blue Bag Life, directed by Alex Fry, Rebecca Lloyd-Evans and Lisa Selby, which received the viewers award at this yr’s BFI London Movie Competition.

HIIFF will open with a premiere screening of Submit Fact, directed by and starring Da Peng, which follows a vendor of cemetery plots who units out to revive the popularity of one in all his deceased shoppers. The movie is ready for launch on December 31.

Additional strands embrace Gala, Fest Greatest, Panorama, New Horizons and Classics.

HIIFF Competitors 2023

Characteristic Competitors

Aftersun (UK-US)
Dir. Charlotte Wells

The Beasts (Sp)
Dir. Rodrigo Sorogoyen

Georgia (China)
Dir. Chakme Rinpoche

Sons Of Ramses (Fr)
Dir. Clément Cogitore 

Saint Omer (Sen)
Dir. Alice Diop

The Wire Of Life (China)
Dir. Sixue Qiao

The Harmless (Fr)
Dir. Louis Garrel

Trenque Lauquen (Arg)
Dir. Laura Citarella

Vera (Austria)
Dirs. Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel

What Stays (UK-HK-Fin)
Dir. Huang Ran

World Conflict III (Iran)
Dir. Houman Seyedi

Documentary Competitors

A Marble Travelogue (Neth-HK-Greece)
Dir. Sean Wang

A Regular Job (It)
Dirs. Mattia Colombo, Gianluca Matarrese

Blue Bag Life (UK)
Dirs. Alex Fry, Rebecca Lloyd-Evans, Lisa Selby

Dry Floor Burning (Bra)
Dirs. Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós

Rookies (Fr)
Dirs. Thierry Demaizière, Alban Teurlai

See You Friday Robinson (Fr-Switz-Iran-Leb)
Dir. Mitra Farahani

The Eclipse (Nor)
Dir. Natasa City

We, College students! (CF-DRC-Saudi)
Dir. Rafiki Fariala