Other winners included Barbarian Invasion and The Conscience.
Chinese director Geng Jun’s Manchurian Tiger won the best feature award at the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff), which ran June 11-20.
The first film from Geng since his Sundance award winner Free And Easy revolves around a truck driver, his wife, his girlfriend, a business man and a poet, who are all caught up in a chain of calamities connected to an unpaid debt and a black dog.
Barbarian Invasion, which sees pioneering Malaysian New Wave director Tan Chui Mui appear in front of the camera, won the jury grand prize.
Chinese director Geng Jun’s Manchurian Tiger won the best feature award at the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff), which ran June 11-20.
The first film from Geng since his Sundance award winner Free And Easy revolves around a truck driver, his wife, his girlfriend, a business man and a poet, who are all caught up in a chain of calamities connected to an unpaid debt and a black dog.
Barbarian Invasion, which sees pioneering Malaysian New Wave director Tan Chui Mui appear in front of the camera, won the jury grand prize.
- 6/21/2021
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Dark comedy film “Manchurian Tiger” won the top prize, the Golden Goblet, Saturday at the 24th edition of the Shanghai International Film Festival.
“Manchurian Tiger,” directed by Geng Jun, is the tale of a man who is on the run from debt collectors and manages to embroil family and friends in his misadventures.
Films that won multiple prizes included “The Contrary Route” by currently jailed Iranian director Abolfazl Jalili and Russia’s “The Conscience,” which collected three awards.
Prizes were presented at a large-scale ceremony held on the penultimate day of a festival that was largely run as an in-person event, albeit adhering to national and local safety protocols. The festival, which started in June 11, 2021, continues into a final day on Sunday with the public screenings of some of the winning titles.
In-person events throughout the week have included film premieres, and the popular master class lecture series, with guests such as director Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
“Manchurian Tiger,” directed by Geng Jun, is the tale of a man who is on the run from debt collectors and manages to embroil family and friends in his misadventures.
Films that won multiple prizes included “The Contrary Route” by currently jailed Iranian director Abolfazl Jalili and Russia’s “The Conscience,” which collected three awards.
Prizes were presented at a large-scale ceremony held on the penultimate day of a festival that was largely run as an in-person event, albeit adhering to national and local safety protocols. The festival, which started in June 11, 2021, continues into a final day on Sunday with the public screenings of some of the winning titles.
In-person events throughout the week have included film premieres, and the popular master class lecture series, with guests such as director Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
- 6/20/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The feature film category consists of 13 international titles, all world premieres.
The 24th Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff), which runs from June 11-20, has unveiled the competition titles for its long-standing Golden Goblet Awards.
The feature film category consists of 13 international titles, all world premieres, vying for eight awards. These include three from China: The Chanting Willows by Dai Wei, The Grace Ends by Wu Di, and Manchurian Tiger by Geng Jun.
The only other Asian title is Barbarian Invasion by Malaysian filmmaker Tan Chui Mui who also appears in the film as the lead actress. The rest of the...
The 24th Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff), which runs from June 11-20, has unveiled the competition titles for its long-standing Golden Goblet Awards.
The feature film category consists of 13 international titles, all world premieres, vying for eight awards. These include three from China: The Chanting Willows by Dai Wei, The Grace Ends by Wu Di, and Manchurian Tiger by Geng Jun.
The only other Asian title is Barbarian Invasion by Malaysian filmmaker Tan Chui Mui who also appears in the film as the lead actress. The rest of the...
- 6/4/2021
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
After shifting last year to an online format, the Shanghai International Film Festival will return for its 24th edition later this month. The festival will play as an in-person event, while the market sections will be hybrids of in-person and online activities.
The TV festival runs from June 6, while the film festival runs from June 11-20. A prize ceremony for its Golden Goblet awards will be held on June 19.
The jury that will select the competition winners includes: Chinese producer Huang Jianxi as president; Singapore filmmaker Anthony Chen; Chinese director and actor Deng Chao; Italian film festival selector Marco Mueller; Shanghai-based French producer Natacha Devillers; and Chinese actor Song Jia.
Organizers said that the festival was being in the spirit of “strong recovery and leading momentum of Chinese films in the world, with three-fold focuses on Asia, attention to China and support for new talent.
Main Competition
“Amateurs”
Dir. Iwona Siekierzynska (Poland)
“Barbarian Invasion”
Dir.
The TV festival runs from June 6, while the film festival runs from June 11-20. A prize ceremony for its Golden Goblet awards will be held on June 19.
The jury that will select the competition winners includes: Chinese producer Huang Jianxi as president; Singapore filmmaker Anthony Chen; Chinese director and actor Deng Chao; Italian film festival selector Marco Mueller; Shanghai-based French producer Natacha Devillers; and Chinese actor Song Jia.
Organizers said that the festival was being in the spirit of “strong recovery and leading momentum of Chinese films in the world, with three-fold focuses on Asia, attention to China and support for new talent.
Main Competition
“Amateurs”
Dir. Iwona Siekierzynska (Poland)
“Barbarian Invasion”
Dir.
- 6/3/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The film “Rotterdam, I Love You”, like the previous entries in the ‘Cities of Love’ series, will be a kaleidoscope of stories about love in all kinds of interpretations. Every single segment has its own perspective and its own personal style, woven into the rhythm of this unique city by 11 different directors.
The creative team consists of 11 directors, 20 to 30 wonderful actors in main roles, top producers and screenwriters. The 11 directors will range from Dutch up-and-coming talents to internationally acclaimed directors from all over the world, including Koen Mortier, Paula van der Oest (“Zeus and Zo”), Barry Atsma, Shariff Nasr (“Oblivion”) and Atom Egoyan (“The Sweet Hereafter”). The Cities of Love family of directors already includes people like The Coen Brothers, Brett Ratner, Wes Craven, Guillermo Arriaga, Alexander Payne, as well as Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and more.
“Rotterdam, I Love You” will show the real Rotterdam, in all its rough beauty,...
The creative team consists of 11 directors, 20 to 30 wonderful actors in main roles, top producers and screenwriters. The 11 directors will range from Dutch up-and-coming talents to internationally acclaimed directors from all over the world, including Koen Mortier, Paula van der Oest (“Zeus and Zo”), Barry Atsma, Shariff Nasr (“Oblivion”) and Atom Egoyan (“The Sweet Hereafter”). The Cities of Love family of directors already includes people like The Coen Brothers, Brett Ratner, Wes Craven, Guillermo Arriaga, Alexander Payne, as well as Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and more.
“Rotterdam, I Love You” will show the real Rotterdam, in all its rough beauty,...
- 5/16/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
- Now in only its 2nd edition, Rome has whipped up quite the festival. A mention-worthy selection of titles, some U.S pics for glam and a jury process that I especially like not 5 or 6 but a group of 50 - this year No Man's Land director Danis Tanovic serves as the jury head for 50 international cinema-goers. Notables are Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth.Below you'll find the complete stats on the fest that begins in less than 3 weeks from now. When: October 18th to 28th, 2007 Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('October 18, 2007'); Where: Rome, Italy Official Website: www.romacinemafest.orgNot just a great city, but the city of cinema par excellence, will host the Fest which will transform its centre - the Auditorium Parco della Musica - in the Parco del Cinema for nine days. The second edition of Cinema. Festa Internazionale di Roma - RomeFilmFest will be held from
- 9/28/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
Iran won't let Jalili go to fest
VENICE, Italy -- Iranian director Abolfazi Jalili was unable to attend the Venice International Film Festival to accompany his movie Abjad (The First Letter) because his government did not allow him authorization to travel, the film's publicist said Tuesday. The Tehran authorities are understood to have objected to certain elements of the movie, notably the depiction of a friendship between a 16-year-old Iranian boy and a Jewish girl.
- 9/3/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cannes Film review: 'Tales of Fish'
Mohsen Makhmalbaf's "The Door", his sublime contribution to the Iranian triptych "Tales of Fish", is by a wide margin the best of the short form works, extolling the particular virtues of his art, subtlety, lyricism and irony. But "Tales of a Fish" as a whole is distinctly minor, lacking both dramatic focus and the emotional resonance necessary to connect the separate tales in a satisfying way. Even worse, Makhmalbaf's story is positioned last, where one senses it is barely worth the wait.
The opening of the Makhmalbaf film is fantastic. Beginning with a close-up of a door strapped to the back of an itinerant, illiterate man, Makhmalbaf pulls the camera back and holds the shot until the man walks silently through a vast desert landscape, moving vertically toward the top of the frame. Suddenly a bicyclist, moving horizontally, enters and the paths of the two intersect. Cutting to a close-up of the door, the bicyclist, a postal delivery man, knocks on the door to inform the man of a letter from a young man seeking his daughter's hand in marriage.
Makhmalbaf follows that up with an equally inspired exchange between the man (Mohamad A. Babhan) and a roving band of musicians and performers looking for a wedding and a funeral. "Come in for some fresh water and tea," the man insists.
"The Door" is a short work but a model of filmmaking. The framing, cutting and design are flawless; the use of contrapuntal, ambient sounds imbues a sense of mystery, leading to the quietly devastating final exchange between the man and a stranger.
Unfortunately, "The Door" can't elevate the entirety of the 72-minute competition effort. The three stories, each running about 25 minutes, unfold on the island of Kish in the Persian Gulf, about 10 miles off the Iranian coast. The other two entries, Nasser Taghvai's "The Greek Boat" and Abolfazl Jalili's "The Ring (An Order)" are visually accomplished, though too dramatically attenuated to hold any interest. More damaging, Taghvai and Jalili lack the formal control and mastery displayed by Makhmalbaf.
In Taghvai's tale, the arrival of floating boxes and detritus has a profoundly unsettling effect on a man's wife. In the middle film, a young Kurd (Hafez Pakdel) illegally gains entry to the island to earn enough money to marry a woman left behind at his village. The conflict, tension and social detail Makhmalbaf introduces so casually is lost on Taghvai and Jalili. Some of the images have a cumulative power, but the stories have been drained of intrigue or surprise.
TALES OF FISH
A Kish Production
THE GREEK BOAT
CREDITS
Director/writer:Nasser Taghvai
Cinematographer:Azim Javan Rouh
Editor:Abbas Ganjavi
CAST
Shanbeh:Hossein Panahi
Shanbeh's wife:Atefeh Razavi
THE RING (AN ORDER)
CREDITS
Director/writer/editor:Abolfai Jalili
Cinematographer:Massoud Karani
CAST
Young man:Hafez Pakdel
THE DOOR
CREDITS
Director/writer:Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Cinematographer:Mohamad Ahmadi
Editor:Meysam Makhmalbaf
CAST
Man:Mohamad A. Babham
Daughter:Norieh Mahigiran...
The opening of the Makhmalbaf film is fantastic. Beginning with a close-up of a door strapped to the back of an itinerant, illiterate man, Makhmalbaf pulls the camera back and holds the shot until the man walks silently through a vast desert landscape, moving vertically toward the top of the frame. Suddenly a bicyclist, moving horizontally, enters and the paths of the two intersect. Cutting to a close-up of the door, the bicyclist, a postal delivery man, knocks on the door to inform the man of a letter from a young man seeking his daughter's hand in marriage.
Makhmalbaf follows that up with an equally inspired exchange between the man (Mohamad A. Babhan) and a roving band of musicians and performers looking for a wedding and a funeral. "Come in for some fresh water and tea," the man insists.
"The Door" is a short work but a model of filmmaking. The framing, cutting and design are flawless; the use of contrapuntal, ambient sounds imbues a sense of mystery, leading to the quietly devastating final exchange between the man and a stranger.
Unfortunately, "The Door" can't elevate the entirety of the 72-minute competition effort. The three stories, each running about 25 minutes, unfold on the island of Kish in the Persian Gulf, about 10 miles off the Iranian coast. The other two entries, Nasser Taghvai's "The Greek Boat" and Abolfazl Jalili's "The Ring (An Order)" are visually accomplished, though too dramatically attenuated to hold any interest. More damaging, Taghvai and Jalili lack the formal control and mastery displayed by Makhmalbaf.
In Taghvai's tale, the arrival of floating boxes and detritus has a profoundly unsettling effect on a man's wife. In the middle film, a young Kurd (Hafez Pakdel) illegally gains entry to the island to earn enough money to marry a woman left behind at his village. The conflict, tension and social detail Makhmalbaf introduces so casually is lost on Taghvai and Jalili. Some of the images have a cumulative power, but the stories have been drained of intrigue or surprise.
TALES OF FISH
A Kish Production
THE GREEK BOAT
CREDITS
Director/writer:Nasser Taghvai
Cinematographer:Azim Javan Rouh
Editor:Abbas Ganjavi
CAST
Shanbeh:Hossein Panahi
Shanbeh's wife:Atefeh Razavi
THE RING (AN ORDER)
CREDITS
Director/writer/editor:Abolfai Jalili
Cinematographer:Massoud Karani
CAST
Young man:Hafez Pakdel
THE DOOR
CREDITS
Director/writer:Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Cinematographer:Mohamad Ahmadi
Editor:Meysam Makhmalbaf
CAST
Man:Mohamad A. Babham
Daughter:Norieh Mahigiran...
- 5/17/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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