Current location:Global Grooves news portal > opinions
Asian film festival welcomes week of Chinese works
Global Grooves news portal2024-05-21 19:53:40【opinions】4People have gathered around
IntroductionCHICAGO, April 8 (Xinhua) -- The ongoing Asian Pop-Up Cinema film festival will screen four Chinese
CHICAGO, April 8 (Xinhua) -- The ongoing Asian Pop-Up Cinema film festival will screen four Chinese films either at theaters in downtown Chicago or online nationwide in the week starting Monday.
Set in a southern cane village, the centerpiece Good Autumn, Mommy, directed by Chen Shizhong, tells the journey of awakening to find her family and herself of a woman, whose newborn daughter disappeared without a trace.
Founder of the festival Sophia Wong Boccio told Xinhua she was "especially impressed" to see that famous and award-winning Shu Qi had chosen to "perform an ordinary cane farmer's wife in the southern part of China."
The story "uses images with oriental temperament to create a unique atmosphere of the region and the age," said Chen, the director.
To be shown at the AMC NEWCITY 14 theater in Chicago on April 14, the movie has been honored with the Outstanding Artistic Achievement award at the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival in 2023.
The other three films each tell a contemporary story in China.
The Fallen Bridge, a crime drama directed by Li Yu, examines the role of law and the emotional and moral dilemmas of victims who go great lengths for justice.
The Cord of Life by Qiao Sixue depicts a mother with Alzheimer's and her caregiver son, who ties her to him with a rope, and their effort in searching for the "home" she yearns for in the grassland of Inner Mongolia.
The Coffin Painter by Da Fei tells a cross-generational friendship between two strangers who are drawn to each other via the challenges they each face in their lives.
"There are a lot of hidden gems and moving stories in China that need to be shared with a wider audience," said Boccio, who selected these four out of 20 Chinese films.
During the festival's 18th season from March 20 to April 21, each week features a different region in Asia, with films screened offline in downtown Chicago and available for streaming.
Many of the works were made by "first and second-time directors of feature-length films," said Boccio.
"Audiences will appreciate the raw and sometimes innocent reflections of the places and people that are close to their hearts," she said. ■
Address of this article:http://moldova.popular-vines.com/content-39b399943.html
Very good!(817)
Related articles
- Hollywood star Shia LaBeouf is spotted on the streets of Gavin and Stacey's hometown Barry
- Drake complains about news helicopters flying over his house after THIRD police
- Catholic priest stuns worshippers by telling them Christ had an erection when he died on the cross
- Cannes Film Festival is set to kick off. What you need to know
- Not so Cool Britannia! Noel Gallagher gives damning verdict on Keir Starmer
- Cannes Film Festival is set to kick off. What you need to know
- Republican Vermont Gov. Phil Scott is running for reelection to 5th term
- We'll call the midwives to give whooping cough vaccinations to babies, say Labour's Wes Streeting
- Ship that caused Baltimore bridge collapse has been refloated
- Mother's Day: Today, more US parents than ever have paid leave — but most still don't
Popular articles
Recommended
Philippines blames China for loss of giant clams in disputed shoal and urges environmental inquiry
Rebels kill at least 4 people during an attack on a Central African Republic mining town
Profound sadness, anger grips Israel on Memorial Day
Couple 'perform sex act on BA flight from Heathrow to Dublin' in front of 'disgusted' passengers
Strictly star Giovanni Pernice's former partner Rose Ayling
Rochelle Humes flaunts her envy
Messi plays through a scare, Inter Miami rallies past Montreal 3
Mitchell has 33 points, but Cavaliers can't contain Tatum and Brown in Game 3 loss to Celtics
Links
- Coach Malone reminds the Nuggets they're the defending champs and asks them to play like it
- Haiti violence: Transitional council embraces new changes following turmoil
- Reds 1B Encarnacion
- Cameron Diaz films Outcome with Keanu Reeves and Matt Bomer in LA
- Gnabry substituted because of an injury in first half of Champions League semifinal against Madrid
- Haley won 1 in 5 Indiana Republican voters in the presidential primary. She left the race in March
- Reds 1B Encarnacion
- Gogglebox legend signs up for Celebs Go Dating after shock divorce announcement
- Europeans want governments to focus more on curbing migration than climate change, a study says
- British government tries to head off the type of unrest seen on American campuses