Chinese director Hu Bo’s film “An Elephant Standing Still” has made it’s theatrical debut. The film is the directors only completed feature length film as the director passed in October of 2017. The film stars Yu Zhang Yuchang Peng, and Uvin Wang, as a group of wandering souls all interested in the story of the Elephant that sits and ignores the world.
The film has been previously released in theaters and won the “International Federation of Film Critics Prize” at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival. The film is awaiting a domestic release, a trailer has been previously released.
Synopsis
In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the downward spiral in which they find themselves. Among them is schoolboy Bu, on the run after pushing Shuai down the stairs,...
The film has been previously released in theaters and won the “International Federation of Film Critics Prize” at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival. The film is awaiting a domestic release, a trailer has been previously released.
Synopsis
In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the downward spiral in which they find themselves. Among them is schoolboy Bu, on the run after pushing Shuai down the stairs,...
- 8/24/2018
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
Beauty and danger: two things which define not just Ciao Ciao's titular character, but the film as a whole. Charting the fallout of a young, glamorous woman's return to her home village in southwestern China, Song Chuan's second film sets festering rural lives against sweeping depictions of stunning beautiful landscapes — a juxtaposition which, perhaps, speaks volumes about how unmoored people have become from their morality and roots.
Ciao Ciao could be seen as a more thematically streamlined and artistically refined take of Song’s 2011 debut Huan Huan. The pic is an interesting corollary to a recent wave of Chinese-language films exploring...
Ciao Ciao could be seen as a more thematically streamlined and artistically refined take of Song’s 2011 debut Huan Huan. The pic is an interesting corollary to a recent wave of Chinese-language films exploring...
- 3/12/2017
- by Clarence Tsui
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Berlin film festival has completed its lineup for Panorama, its primary sidebar, adding a further 24 titles, including Sundance hit Call Me by Your Name, the gay love story from A Bigger Splash director Luca Guadagnino.
The 2017 Panorama will also have a strong focus on China and Brazil, with three new art house titles from the Middle Kingdom world premiering in Berlin alongside a quartet of Brazilian films.
The Chinese premieres include Hu Jia's love story The Taste of Betel Nut; Yang Heng's Ghost in the Mountains and Ciao Ciao, a drama from director Song Chuan set in...
The 2017 Panorama will also have a strong focus on China and Brazil, with three new art house titles from the Middle Kingdom world premiering in Berlin alongside a quartet of Brazilian films.
The Chinese premieres include Hu Jia's love story The Taste of Betel Nut; Yang Heng's Ghost in the Mountains and Ciao Ciao, a drama from director Song Chuan set in...
- 1/25/2017
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Berlin’s Panorama lineup also includes new films from Us, China and Brazil.
Berlin’s Panorama strand is now complete following the addition of 24 additional titles.
A total of 51 works from 43 countries have been chosen for screening in the section, including 21 in Panorama Dokumente and 29 feature films in the main programme and Panorama Special. 36 of these films will be getting their world premieres at the Berlinale.
The German production Tiger Girl by Jakob Lass will open this year’s edition of Panorama Special at Berlin’s Zoo Palast cinema, along with the previously announced Brazilian production Vazante.
Among newly confirmed films are UK Sundance title God’s Own Country, Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name, Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome, feminist fairy tale The Misandrists by Berlinale regular Bruce Labruce, Erik Poppe’s The King’s Choice and Belgian-French-Lebanese co-production Insyriated which stars Hiam Abbass as a woman trapped in an apartment during war.[p...
Berlin’s Panorama strand is now complete following the addition of 24 additional titles.
A total of 51 works from 43 countries have been chosen for screening in the section, including 21 in Panorama Dokumente and 29 feature films in the main programme and Panorama Special. 36 of these films will be getting their world premieres at the Berlinale.
The German production Tiger Girl by Jakob Lass will open this year’s edition of Panorama Special at Berlin’s Zoo Palast cinema, along with the previously announced Brazilian production Vazante.
Among newly confirmed films are UK Sundance title God’s Own Country, Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name, Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome, feminist fairy tale The Misandrists by Berlinale regular Bruce Labruce, Erik Poppe’s The King’s Choice and Belgian-French-Lebanese co-production Insyriated which stars Hiam Abbass as a woman trapped in an apartment during war.[p...
- 1/25/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based Zorba is developing a slate of Asia-set projects and will produce Jero Yun’s debut fiction feature, Ma Mère.
Paris-based and Shanghai production house Zorba has unveiled a slate of upcoming feature film co-productions, expanding its footprint into Asia and in particular China.
Among the upcoming projects is South Korean director Jero Yun’s Ma Mère, directly inspired by his feature-length documentary Mrs B., A North Korean Woman which premieres in Cannes Acid selection today (May 19). The filmmaker is also in Cannes with short film The Hitchhiker, which played in Directors’ Fortnight.
The documentary follows the real-life story of a North Korean woman who is human trafficked to China and in turn resorts to trafficking to raise money to get her sons out of the dictatorship which was once her home.
“Ma Mère continues Jero’s exploration of the human impact of Korea’s north-south divide. It revolves around a student living in Northern China who out...
Paris-based and Shanghai production house Zorba has unveiled a slate of upcoming feature film co-productions, expanding its footprint into Asia and in particular China.
Among the upcoming projects is South Korean director Jero Yun’s Ma Mère, directly inspired by his feature-length documentary Mrs B., A North Korean Woman which premieres in Cannes Acid selection today (May 19). The filmmaker is also in Cannes with short film The Hitchhiker, which played in Directors’ Fortnight.
The documentary follows the real-life story of a North Korean woman who is human trafficked to China and in turn resorts to trafficking to raise money to get her sons out of the dictatorship which was once her home.
“Ma Mère continues Jero’s exploration of the human impact of Korea’s north-south divide. It revolves around a student living in Northern China who out...
- 5/19/2016
- ScreenDaily
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