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\n The 25th<\/sup> Shanghai International Film Festival has given the world a fresh insight into the trends and the talents that are emerging in the Chinese film industry as it gets fully back to business after three years of pandemic-enforced restrictions on access.<\/p>\n

\n Organizers have reported mostly sold-out screenings as China\u2019s movie lovers return en masse to cinemas, and visiting filmmakers have found them fully engaged in post-screening Q&As and the assorted masterclasses the festival has hosted.<\/p>\n

\n The curtain officially comes down on Sunday \u2014 after SIFF will have screened around 450 films \u2014 and The Hollywood Reporter <\/em>has selected three Chinese films from three Chinese filmmakers that we expect you\u2019ll be hearing more about in the future. <\/p>\n

\n All Ears<\/em><\/strong>, directed by Liu Jiayin<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n Writer-director Liu Jiayin established herself as one of the most exciting and unique talents to emerge from China in the 2000s \u2014 and then duly disapp<\/a>eared into academia. She\u2019s been nurturing generations of screenwriters at the Beijing Film Academy for a number of years. Her first two films \u2013 Oxhide<\/em> and Oxhide II<\/em> \u2013 played at Berlin, and then Cannes and Rotterdam, respectively, and were marked by her ability to mix documentary and narrative styles, with long, languid takes. All Ears <\/em>is both a return and a return to form. The film stars Hu Ge, an actor with more than 70 million followers on China\u2019s Twitter<\/a>-like Weibo, as a scriptwriter who trades reel life for real life as he starts to earn a living writing eulogies. Audiences in Shanghai were touched by its simplicity and its style. \u201cThe story is loosely based on some of my own experiences,\u201d Liu explained to the gathered media. \u201cJust like me, the protagonist used to be confused about his career and life but he finally finds where his true position is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n May<\/em><\/strong>, directed by <\/strong>Luo Dong<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n The international judging panel for SIFF\u2019s Asian New Talent award was united in their praise for both how \u201cmature\u201d and \u201cinnovative\u201d this year\u2019s selections, and included among them were this second feature from Luo Dong (New York, New York<\/em>), a multi-hyphenate whose past includes stints in cinematography, music, architecture and fashion. There was a noticeable number of films at SIFF that looked at the issues of aging, and how characters cope with facing mortality \u2013 put it down to the past few years of collective global trauma \u2013 but Dong\u2019s film focuses more on providing inspiration, in the form of a charismatic 70-year-old (Chen Yumei) who\u2019s looking for love, and who doesn\u2019t care what people think about the lengths she\u2019s prepared to go to find it. Again, the film plays with the notions of what\u2019s a documentary and what\u2019s a drama, and the audience was left questioning what is real and what is imagined.<\/p>\n

\n Day Dreaming<\/em><\/strong>, directed by Wang Zichuan<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n The debut effort from Shanghai Theatre Academy graduate Wang Zichuan takes the daily trials and tribulations of an eccentric third-grader Zhu Tong (Yue Hao) and blends them with flights of fantasy that turn contemporary life in China into a wonderland that includes aliens and talking flowers. The director said during a Q&A session that he came across the concept when thought about what it was that actually goes through a child\u2019s mind when they are facing what they see as the problems of life. Then he decided to turn the most mundane things into fantasy \u2013 and audiences in Shanghai were left completely charmed by the Yue, in his first role. \u00a0\u201cI just wish that my childhood experiences had been as colorful as Zhu\u2019s,\u201d said the director. Also featured in the Asian New Talent award. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n