{"id":576592,"date":"2023-05-30T05:36:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T02:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/shanghai-film-festival-unveils-2023-competition-selection-featuring-no-u-s-movies\/"},"modified":"2023-05-30T05:36:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T02:36:19","slug":"shanghai-film-festival-unveils-2023-competition-selection-featuring-no-u-s-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/shanghai-film-festival-unveils-2023-competition-selection-featuring-no-u-s-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"#Shanghai Film Festival Unveils 2023 Competition Selection (Featuring No U.S. Movies)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n The Shanghai International Film Festival unveiled the competition selection for its 25th-anniversary edition Monday, featuring a lineup heavy on local Chinese titles, as well as substantial inclusion from Iran and Japan. Notably, though, festival organizers chose not to include a single film from the U.S. movie industry in their 2023 competition lineup.<\/p>\n

\n The 2023 Shanghai festival, running June 9-18, will be the first version of the event that\u2019s easily accessible to the global film industry since the COVID-19 pandemic began in early 2020.\u00a0Last year, the festival was canceled in the wake of Shanghai\u2019s monthlong COVID-19 lockdown and the government\u2019s strict travel<\/a> restrictions at the time. The festival was held the previous two years, but it became an almost entirely domestic Chinese affair, as flights in and out of China were hard to come by at the time (and all travelers had to endure lengthy and expensive hotel quarantines to gain entry to the country). <\/p>\n

\n This year, Shanghai organizers are hoping to woo the world back to China, extending Beijing\u2019s current \u201copen for business\u201d policy push to the cultural sphere. But the deteriorated diplomatic relationship between Washington and Beijing \u2014\u00a0as well as the diminished earnings of U.S. movies<\/a> in China \u2014 could present headwinds to substantial U.S. industry participation, insiders say. <\/p>\n

\n The Shanghai Film Festival is widely regarded as China\u2019s most established and artistically respected cinema event. But its competition lineups have tended to be somewhat eccentric for a festival of its stature, as the event, like all official cultural activities in China, is subject to prevailing local political priorities as much as the artistic will of programmers. For the 2023 edition, organizers said they received nearly 8,800 film entries to choose from, spanning more than 128 countries and regions. The high-flying Korean film industry is another notable absence throughout the competition lineup, though, thanks to a de facto ban on Korean entertainment in China stemming from old geopolitical grievances.<\/p>\n

\n Shanghai\u2019s screening lineups for other sections of the festival, which tend to include more crowd-pleasing retrospectives of Hollywood and international commercial filmmaking, are expected in the coming days, along with the makeup of the 2023 competition jury.<\/p>\n

\n Feature Film Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n \u201cAll Ears\u201d Dir. Liu Jiayin (China)
\u201cDust To Dust\u201d Dir. Jonathan Li (China)
\u201cGood Autumn, Mommy\u201d Dir. CHEN Shizhong (China)
\u201cJoseph\u2019s Son\u201d Dir. Haobam Paban Kumar (India)
\u201cKindling\u201d Dir. Connor O\u2019Hara (U.K.)
\u201cMom, Is That You?!\u201d Dir. Y\u00f4ji Yamada (Japan)
\u201cMuyeres\u201d Dir. Marta Lallana (Spain)\u00a0
\u201cNina\u201d Dir. Oksana Bychkova (Russia-Georgia)
\u00a0\u201cThe Annoyed\u201d Dir. Mehdi Fard Ghaderi (Iran)
\u00a0\u201cThe Chapel\u201d Dir. Dominique Deruddere (Belgium)
\u00a0\u201cThe First Day Of My Life\u201d Dir. Paolo Genovese (Italy)
\u00a0\u201cYoko\u201d Dir. Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (Japan)<\/p>\n

\n Asian New Talent<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n \u201c1.5 Horsepower\u201d Dir. Rasool Kahani (Iran)
\u201cCause Of Death: Unknown\u201d Dir. Ali Zarnegar (Iran)
\u201cDay Dreaming\u201d Dir. WANG Zichuan (China)
\u201cGone With The Boat\u201d Dir. CHEN Xiaoyu (China)
\u201cIn Broad Daylight\u201d Dir. Lawrence Kan (Hong Kong)
\u201cLove, My Way\u201d Dir. LIU Bing (China)
\u201cMay\u201d Dir. LUO Dong (China)
\u00a0\u201cPeople Who Talk To Plushies Are Kind\u201d Dir. Yurina Kaneko (Japan)
\u00a0\u201cQash\u201d Dir. Aisultan Seit (Kazakhstan)
\u00a0\u201cSunday\u201d Dir. Shokir Kholikov (Uzbekistan)
\u201cThe Signal\u201d Dir. Lee Phongsavanh (Laos)
\u00a0\u201cTime Still Turns The Pages\u201d Dir. Nick Cheuk (Hong Kong)<\/p>\n

\n Animated Feature Films<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n \u201cDolphin Boy\u201d Dir. Mohammad Kheirandish (Iran-T\u00fcrkiye)
\u201cFour Souls Of Coyote\u201d Dir. \u00c1ron Gauder (Hungary)
\u00a0\u201cGonta: The Story Of The Two-Named Dog In The Fukushima Disaster\u201d Dir. Akio Nishizawa (Japan)
\u201cMaster Zhong\u201d Dirs. WANG Yuxi-HUANG Shanchuan (China)
\u201cThe Inseparables\u201d Dir. J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Degruson (Belgium-France-Spain)<\/p>\n

\n Documentary<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n \u201cAnxious In Beirut\u201d Dir. Zakaria Jaber (Jordan-Lebanon-Qatar-Spain)
\u201cLeap Of Faith\u201d Dir. YANG Lina (China)
\u00a0\u201cMoses\u2019 Spies\u201d Dir. Itzik Lerner (Israel)
\u00a0\u201cThe Caravan\u201d Dir. N\u00faria Clavero-Aitor Palacios (Spain-Mexico)
\u00a0\u201cThe Passion Of Mahmoud\u201d Dir. Davoud Abdolmaleki (Iran)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n