If you ask any Chinese indie auteur for their own favorite film festival, expect to be directed to the city of Xining, China’s historic gateway to the vast Tibetan Plateau. Here, in a now-teaming city in the foothills of the world’s tallest mountains, the First International Film Festival has carved out a reputation that regularly earns it comparisons to Sundance — it is China’s preeminent indie event, where exciting new cinematic talent is most likely to be discovered.
This year’s festival, running July 23-31, features a selection of 98 films, including 27 features and 71 shorts — many of them made by first or second-time directors. Former financier-turned-producer, writer and director Song Wen, co-founded Fiff in 2006 and has shepherded the event through 17 years of tumultuous growth and change in the Chinese industry. Along the way, he and the festival have nurtured the careers of some of China’s most distinctive new cinematic voices,...
This year’s festival, running July 23-31, features a selection of 98 films, including 27 features and 71 shorts — many of them made by first or second-time directors. Former financier-turned-producer, writer and director Song Wen, co-founded Fiff in 2006 and has shepherded the event through 17 years of tumultuous growth and change in the Chinese industry. Along the way, he and the festival have nurtured the careers of some of China’s most distinctive new cinematic voices,...
- 7/22/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Second movie for the 30-something Chinese director Xin Yukun, after “The Coffin in the Mountain”, “Wrath of Silence” premiered as the closing film of China’s First Film Festival last July, and had its international premier at London Film Festival. The film experienced some turbulences when its release was suddenly and inexplicably blocked. Being scheduled for October, prime season for movies in China, the censor block has deeply penalized its financial return. “Wrath of Silence”’s International rights have been acquired by the newly reappeared Fortissimo Films, famous for supporting Asian independent productions and filmmakers, Fortissimo, after the recently bankruptcy and closure, has now been acquired and rebooted by Chinese Hehe Pictures and “Wrath of Silence” is their first new title.
Wrath of Silence is screening at the 17th New York Asian Film Festival
Baomin (Song Yang) is a young mute miner, with a short temper and a turbulent past...
Wrath of Silence is screening at the 17th New York Asian Film Festival
Baomin (Song Yang) is a young mute miner, with a short temper and a turbulent past...
- 7/10/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
With $170.5m total, China is the film’s biggest market so far.
Thanks to the three-day Qing Ming holidays (similar to All Souls’ Day in the West) which ran from Thursday – Saturday, last week’s Chinese box office (Apr 2-8) soared by about 27% week-on-week, the first rise in six weeks post-Chinese New Year.
Ready Player One earned $105.5m in its second week, making it the first Us film to top the charts for two straight weeks in 2018. Standing at $170.5m after 10 days, Warner Bros’ sci-fi adaptation is now the highest grossing foreign film and the fifth highest grossing film overall this year.
Thanks to the three-day Qing Ming holidays (similar to All Souls’ Day in the West) which ran from Thursday – Saturday, last week’s Chinese box office (Apr 2-8) soared by about 27% week-on-week, the first rise in six weeks post-Chinese New Year.
Ready Player One earned $105.5m in its second week, making it the first Us film to top the charts for two straight weeks in 2018. Standing at $170.5m after 10 days, Warner Bros’ sci-fi adaptation is now the highest grossing foreign film and the fifth highest grossing film overall this year.
- 4/9/2018
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Zhang Baomin is a miner who works far from home because of some disputes he had with the townsfolk years ago, whilst his wife and son remain near the mountains running a small sheep farm. One day, Baomin learns that his son Lei hasn’t come back from shepherding for two days. He goes back to find his son. His appearance back in town makes people anxious. Searching for his son, Baomin heads for the rough and dangerous mountains, but the resentment and distrust of the townsfolk leads them to turn a blind eye to the reality of a missing child, and the corruption and danger permeating their lives.
Director Yukun Xin’s debut film ‘The Coffin in the Mountain’ was selected for the 29th Venice International Film Critics’ Week in 2014.
Director Yukun Xin’s debut film ‘The Coffin in the Mountain’ was selected for the 29th Venice International Film Critics’ Week in 2014.
- 4/6/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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