After attracting stars like Natalie Portman, Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Tse last year, the Mainland’s biggest film festival returns for its 18th edition. Around 400 celebrities are expected to walk the red carpet during the June 13 opening party at Shanghai Grand Theatre. Confirmed attendees include the cast of upcoming blockbusters like Monkey King 2 and domestic stars like Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, Fan Bingbing and Aaron Kwok. Expect international stars to be confirmed in the days ahead.
Over 200 films from around the world will be screened from June 13-21. Tickets go on sale on June 6 for RMB40-60 online at dianying.taobao.com and at select SIFF cinemas like the Shanghai Film Center. Be warned, they tend to get snapped up within hours, with many camping outside of the cinemas the night before.
While the full program will be announced closer to SIFF’s opening, they’ve released some of the highlights of this year’s program. It’s a stellar mix of recent film festival favorites, 4K restoration of classics, intriguing international picks and the first time that Star Wars IV-VI will be screened in Mainland cinemas. All movies will be screened with English and Chinese subtitles. Here’s our recommendations for what to catch at SIFF.
Academy Award winners
Boyhood | Director: Richard Linklater (2014)
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One of last year’ most acclaimed films is one of the most authentic representations of growing up thanks to its unique process. For 12 years, director Richard Linklater and stars Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane and Patricia Arquette would meet up for a few weeks in Texas to shoot scenes for the film. It’s been credited as a landmark achievement due to its sheer scope with the film winning the Golden Globe for Best Film and Arquette claiming the Best Supporting Actress at this year’s Academy Awards.
The Theory of Everything | Director: James Marsh (2014)
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This Stephen Hawking bio-pic is fueled by a powerful performance by Eddie Redmayne, who picked up this year’s Oscar for Best Actor. The film is based on Jane Wilde Hawking’s memoir Traveling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen and follows the modern day genius as a Cambridge University astrophysics student working on his game-changing A Brief History of Time, while struggling with the onset of motor neuron disease. It cleaned up at the British Film Awards, winning the Outstanding British Film Award.
Whiplash | Director: Damien Chazelle (2014)
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J.K. Simmons won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his abrasive portrayal of a famed conductor, who is also the instructor from hell. Miles Teller stars as the ambitious jazz drumming student who spars with Simmons throughout the tense film, which won three Academy Awards.
International Award Winners
Deux Jours, Une Nuit | Director: The Dardenne Brothers (2014)
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Marion Cotillard picked up an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her portrayal of Sandra, a young factory worker who suffers a nervous breakdown. When she takes time off work, her colleagues help cover her shift. In response, management offers them a bonus to maintain their hours so they can fire Sandra. When she returns to work, she discovers this arrangement and must try to convince her 16 co-workers to reject the proposal in one weekend. The film won the Magritte Award for Best Film.
Clouds of Sils Maria | Director: Oliver Assayas (2014)
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Best known for being the former Mr. Maggie Cheung and for the incredible 2010 three-part mini-series Carlos about the infamous Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal, Assayas continues his hot streak with this Palme d’Or nominated film. Juliette Binoche stars as a famous actress revisiting the play that made her famous. She struggles with the death of its playwright and the opportunity to re-appear in the show except in the role of the older character. Twilight’s Kristen Stewart won the Cesar Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Binoche’s assistant.
Aferim! | Director: Radu Jude (2015)
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Since his short film Lampa cu căciulă won grand prizes at film festivals from Sundance to Toronto, Radu Jude has established himself as one of Romania’s finest auteurs. His latest film brings Western elements and humor to its harsh story about 19th century gypsy slavery. Set in Wallachia, Aferim! follows policeman Costandin’s pursuit of Carfin, a runaway slave escaping from his boyar’s estate after sleeping with the boyar’s wife. Jude won the Silver Bear for Best Director at this year's Berlin International Film Festival
SIFF Specials
Star Wars I-VI
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With Star Wars: The Force Awakens set to be released later this year, Walt Disney Pictures and SIFF are teaming up to screen the entire Star Wars series. There’s not much to say about the iconic franchise that hasn’t already been said. However, this will be the first time that the original triology (Star Wars IV-VI) will be screened in Mainland cinemas. It’s going to sell out. The only question is, will people dress up?
The Wizard of Oz (4K Restoration) | Director: Victor Fleming (1939)
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Since 2013, SIFF has provided a forum for 4K restoration of classic films. A trio of Hollywood golden age classics have been given a technical makeover including Academy Award winners for Best Film, Gone with the Wind and The Sound of Music. What has us most excited is the 4K version of the 1939 Judy Garland starring classic. A cinematic marvel at the time, expect the film’s switch from black-and-white to color to be even more vibrant.
Dragon Gate Inn (4K Restoration) | Director: King Hu (1967)
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Considered the godfather of Chinese action cinema, King Hu was at the height of his powers when he made this 1967 Taiwanese classic that changed the wuxia genre. The world cinema classic follows the fallout of the emperor’s first eunuch defeating General Yu. As the fallen Yu’s children are exiled, the eunuch sets up an ambush at the desolate Dragon Gate Inn to get rid of the family once and fall. However, the innkeeper with an assist from a brother-sister martial-artist team set out to find the kids and protect them during the film’s many, many battles.
Other world cinema classics given the 4K restoration treatment for SIFF are Sergei Parajanov’s 1969 Soviet classic The Color of Pomegrantes which stylishly depicts the life of Armenian poet Sayat-Nova (King of Song), as well as Nagisa Oshima’s Naked Youth (aka. A Story of the Cruelties of Youth). Released in 1960, it helped usher in the Japanese new wave film movement and follows the mutually abusive relationship between Kiyoshi and Makoto.
The Last Emperor (4K Restoration) | Director: Bernardo Bertolucci (1987)
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Director Bernardo Bertolucci oversaw the 4K restoration of his 1987 Academy Award winner for Best Film. Converted to 3D with re-mastered sound, the already visually spectacular film will look even better enhancing its rare sights, such as being the first foreign feature film allowed to shot in the Forbidden City. The film follows the life of Puyi, the country’s last emperor. Another modern masterpiece given the 4K treatment and shown at SIFF is Martin Scorsese’s gangster opus Goodfellas, starring Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta.
A Better Tomorrow (4K restoration) | Director: John Woo (1986)
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Last year, SIFF presented a newly 4K restored version of Xie Jin’s 1964 classic Stage Sisters. They’re immortalizing another classic Chinese film with John Woo’s game-changing action classic. Released with no promotion, A Better Tomorrow shattered Hong Kong’s box office records, ushered in a wave of triad movies and became a transcendent international hit. The film has inspired remakes in South Korea and Bollywood, a Wu-Tang Clan album title and remains a modern action touchstone.
Fellow trailblazer Sergio Leone will have two films given the 4K treatment: 1964’s A Fistful of Dollars, which kicked off the Spaghetti Western genre and made Clint Eastwood a star; and 1984’s epic Once Upon a Time in America, which follows the rise of Robert DeNiro’s Noodles from street kid in Manhattan’s 1920s Jewish ghetto to major player in the city’s organized crime world.
Festival Favorites
Foxcatcher | Director: Bennett Miller (2014)
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Funny man Steve Carell shows off his scary side in this biographical film based on multimillionaire John E. Du Pont’s and his recruitment of Olympic gold medalist wrestlers Mark and Dave Schultz. The bizarre tale culminates in the 1996 murder of Dave Dupont. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards and has been widely praised for the performances by Carell and Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo as the wrestling brothers.
Nightcrawler | Director: Dan Gilroy (2014)
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Jake Gyllenhaal shines as Lou Bloom, a former thief who starts selling footage of accidents and crimes in Los Angeles to local news channels. The film crackles with an intense energy and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
A Most Violent Year | Director: J.C. Chandor (2014)
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The stylish crime drama featuring sterling performances from ascending stars Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis) and Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) as the first couple of a heating oil company working a strong price-fixing scheme. They must dodge competitors and the law in a film that forgoes big spectacle for a slow and thought-provoking pace.
Jimmy’s Hall | Director: Ken Loach (2014)
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This autobiographical film follows the political plight of Jimmy Gralton, the only Irishman to be deported from Ireland. After spending a decade in the United States, Gralton returns home to help run the family farm. It’s been a decade since the Civil War ended and there’s growing discontent. Gralton leads the Revolutionary Worker’s Group, a precursor to the Irish Communist Party. The film tracks the political powder keg between the Catholic church, the state and the republican movement. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) would organize public protests following Gralton’s 1933 deportation.
Still the Water | Director: Naomi Kawase (2014)
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The award-winning Japanese director has crafted an enchanting approach of “fiction with a documentarian’s gaze,” and considers this film to be her masterpiece. A nominee for last year’s Palme d’Or, Still the Water is a visual marvel pairing the scenic nature of Amani City in Kagoshima Prefecture with music produced by Chichibu singer-songwriter Hasiken.
Jackie Chan Action Film Week
SPL II: A Time for Consequences | Director: Cheng Pou Soi (2015)
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The Jackie Chan Action Movie Week makes its debut at SIFF in spectacular fashion. They’re foregoing an opening party for a forum featuring Chan, Wu Jing, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Rob Cohen that explores the “past and future of action movies.” Following that up is the star-studded world premier of this Hong Kong-Thailand production that could foreshadow upcoming cross-cultural collisions.
A sequel in name only, SPL II follows an undercover cop Kit (Wu Jing) who slips deeper in the criminal underworld. When his cover is blown, he disappears only for his dogged uncle to discover that’s he’s in a Thai prison. There, Ong Bak’s Tony Jaa is in charge of keeping an eye on him. Despite not sharing a common language, the two form a bond especially when it’s revealed that Kit is a suitable bone marrow doner for Jaa’s sick daughter. With incentive to keep him alive, Jaa must face down the warden that wants Kit dead and an onslaught of enemies from Kit’s past. Stars Jaa, Max Zhang and Simon Yam will attend.
Vengeance of an Assassin | Director Panna Riitkrai (2014)
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If Jackie Chan had a long lost Thai brother, it would be Panna Riitkrai. Since the early 80s, he and his Muay Thai Stun team (previously known as P.P.N. Stunt Team) have crafted action packed classics designed to delight “the nation’s taxi drivers.” He’s tutored Thai action stars Tony Jaa and Dan Chupong, who stars in what turns out to be Riitkrai’s final movie as a director after his passing last summer.
Chupong is out for vengeance following the murder of his parents when he was a child. He infiltrates the underworld and ultimately becomes an assassin. However, he can’t complete one mission forcing him to go up against the same people that may be behind his parent’s murder. The film has been praised as a throwback to the kinetic Thai action films of the 90s and the fight scenes promise to be spectacular.
The Raid 2 | Director: Gareth Evans (2014)
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Rookie policeman Rama is shaping up to be the Indonesian John McClain. Shortly after shooting his way through a mobster, hitmen and dirty cop filled building in 2011’s The Raid: Redemption, he goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta to take down the city’s crime syndicate and guarantee his young family’s survival. The Guardian gave it four stars and its bonkers fight scenes that highlight the Indonesian martial art pencak silat are unlike any seen before.
SIFF Retrospectives
Breathless | Director: Jean-Luc Godard (1960)
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SIFF’s Tribute to the Masters has become one of the most anticipated parts of the festival and this year they tip their hat to Jean-Luc Godard. Seven works by the French new wave pioneer will be screened as part of The Unfinished History of Cinema - Retrospective of Godard. That includes his first-feature film that set the ball rolling. The film follows Jean-Paul Belmondo in his star-making role as youthful criminal and Humphrey Bogart devotee Michel. He falls for an American and is on the run from the police in a film that’s still legendary for its visual style and use of jump-cuts.
Histoire(s) du Cinema | Director: Jean-Luc Godard (1988)
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The Godard retrospective also includes masterpieces like Weekend, Band of Outsiders, Alphaville, Contempt and Pierrot le Fou that dip throughout the different periods of the iconic director. Completed in 1988, Histoire(s) du Cinema is one of the most important pieces from the latter part of his career. Clocking in at 266 minutes, it’s a look at the history and stories of the concept of cinema and its relation to the 20th century. The bold work was originally released as eight separate programs and is almost entirely composed of scenes and quotes taken from films.
Poppoya | Yasuo Furuhata (1999)
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In conjunction with the Tokyo International Film Festival, SIFF hosts a retrospective to legendary Japanese actor Ken Takakura, who passed away last year. A record-holding four-time Japan Academy Prize winner, Takakura briefly crossed over to Hollywood, where famously told Andy Garcia and Michael Douglas “I do speak fucking English” in Black Rain and tough-loved Tom Selleck as his coach in Mr. Baseball. Five of his classics will be screened at SIFF including one of his last films.
In Poppoya, he plays a railway station haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. He gets a new lease on life, when he meets a young woman that resembles his daughter. With his father’s memories of working as a coal mining technician Northeast China, Takakura insisted that the film’s screening license for China belong to him, so he could give it to the country. A friend to China, Takakura would later star in Zhang Yimou’s 2005’s award-winner Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles. The SIFF screening of Poppoya fulfills Takakura’s wish by screening it for the first time to kick off the Retrospective.
Abashiri Prison: Longing for Home | Director: Teruo Ishii (1965)
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The Ken Takakura retrospective features other classics like Kimi Yo Funnu no Kawa o Watare, The Yellow Handkerchief and A Distant Cry from Spring. However, 1965’s Abashiri Prison not only made Takakura a star but was also the first hit yakuza film. He plays model prisoner Shinichi Tachibana who has six months left on his sentence. Handcuffed to hardened criminal Gonda, he is forced to go along on a tense adventure when Gonda and his crew escape from prison.
Children of Troubled Times | Director: Xu Xingzhi (1935)
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese people's war of resistance against Japanese aggression, SIFF has developed a program of classic Anti-Fascist War Films. This patriotic Chinese film follows a Shanghai intellectual Xin Baihe and his friend Liang. While Liang joins the resistance against Japanese invaders, Xin spends his time attempting to woo glamorous widow in Qingdao. However, news of Liang’s death causes Xin to join the war effort. The 1935 film was one of the first to make the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement as one of its theme and is famous for being the origin of ‘The March of the Volunteers,’ the PRC’s national anthem.
Also screening as part of the programme is Storm over the Yangtze River, a 1969 adaptation of Zou Lang’s spy story. Based on the true story of undercover agent Yangtze Number One and his colleagues in Jianli County in Hubei Province, the film follows their life-risking efforts in securing the Yangtze 189 Ii Blockade Line as part of the “Died Bridge Plan.”
Casablanca | Director: Michael Curtiz (1942)
The Academy Award winning classic follows Humphrey Bogart’s Rick, whose nightclub is a hotbed of political intrigue full of government officials and refugees. It’s one of the varied offerings in SIFF’s special program on Anti-Fascist War Films that also includes: Robert Bresson’s 1956 A Man Escaped, a biographical film of a French resistance member that escapes from the German-run Montluc Prison, Jean-Pierre Melville’s unromantic look at the French Resistance, 1969’s Army of Shadows; Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1962 Soviet humanistic masterpiece Ivan’s Childhood that explores the human cost of war through an orphan boy’s eyes, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Marleen. The 1981 West German film is a look at the forbidden love between a German singer and the Swiss-Jewish composer helping out an underground of German Jews.
The Tin Drum | Volker Schlöndorff (1979)
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Adapted from the Günter Grass novel, The Tin Drum is one of West Germany’s biggest cinematic triumphs, winning the Palme d’Or (with Apocalypse Now!) and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The surrealistic black comedy follows the malformed midget Oskar Matzerath through thirty years. Through his rough encounters, the film is revered as one of the most anti-Nazi films in history while still provoking outrage as captured in the 2001 documentary Banned in Oklahoma.
Battle of Moscow | Director: Yuzi Ozerov (1985)
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This two-part epic Soviet film was made to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Allied Victory over Nazi Germany and the 20th anniversary of the Victory Day holiday that pronounced Moscow as Hero City. It’s a dramatization of the 1941 Battle of Moscow and its sheer scope makes most Hollywood blockbusters seem small. Shot over two year, the film used 5,000 soldiers, nearly 10,000 extras, 250 actors and 202 cameraman costing six million rubles to make.
Night Will Fall | Director: Andre Singer (2014)
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This acclaimed documentary explores the making of the 1945 British government documentary German Concentration Camps Factual Survey, which was unreleased until last year’s debut at the Berlin International Film Festival. Night Will Fall mixes haunting scenes captured live from the newly liberated concentration camps with interviews with survivors, liberators and the crew behind the 1945 documentary. Its delayed release is explored and an interview with Alfred Hitchcock is included about his involvement as an advisor.
The Golden Goblet Award
Leviathan | Director: Andrey Zvagintsev (2014)
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Following in the footsteps of Gong Li, The King’s Speech Tom Hooper and visionary directors like Wang Kar-Wai, Russian director Andrey Zvagintsev will chair the jury for SIFF’s top Golden Goblet prize. It’s an honor that comes with an acclaimed career and his Golden Globe Award Best Foreign Film winner will be screened as part of the celebrations.
Inspired by the tragic case of Marvin John Heemeyer, an automobile muffler repair shop owner who became incensed during a zoning dispute that ended with him using an armored bulldozer to bulldoze through the town hall and other buildings in Granby, Colorado, Zvagintsev adapts it to a Russian setting. Leviathan won Best Screenplay at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and picked up an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film. It’s also courted controversy with Russia’s Ministry of Culture Vladimir Medinsky criticizing its portrayal of ordinary Russians, triggering proposals to ban funding films that “defile the national culture.” However, the film has one powerful fan in Metropolitan Simon. The diocese of Murmansk and Mochegorsk where the movie was filmed, describes it as “honest.”
Sunstroke | Director: Nikita Mikhalkov (2014)
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The Golden Goblet is SIFF’s biggest prize and this year’s field is an eclectic mix by prestigious directors across the world. Throughout his fifty-year career, he’s elicited comparisons to Spielberg through classics like 1987’s Dark Eyes and 1994’s Burnt by the Sun. His latest film takes place in the final days of the White Terror of the 1920s. An imprisoned lieutenant recalls a romantic tryst during a more opulent time in Imperial Russia.
Where the Wind Settles | Director: Wang Tung (2014)
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A six-time Golden Horse Award winner, Wang Tung is an iconic Taiwanese director known his Strawman/Banana Paradise/Hill of No Return trilogy. His latest epic follows three young Chinese soldiers and an orphaned child as they flee from war-torn Northern China to a shanty town in Taipei, where they must create a new life.
SIFF Panorama (International Films)
Dhoom 3 | Director: Vijay Krishna Acharya (2013)
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Bollywood has never been hotter with India’s highest-grossing film ever, P.K. earning over RMB30 million in its recent Mainland opening weekend. Its star Aamir Khan had set records previously with this 2013 action film that was also the first Bollywood movie released in the IMAX format. He stars as Sahir, a bankrobber targeting Western Bank of Chicago for its failure to help out his father when he was a child. It’s part of the glitzy offerings in SIFF’s Panorama look at Indian cinema with screenings scheduled for Queen and Happy New Year.
Rahasya | Director: Manish Gupta (2015)
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It’s not all glamor in India’s cinematic world. Released to raves, Rahasya is a murder-mystery revolving the death of an 18-year-old girl in her home. Her father is the prime suspect but evidence eventually points to a riveting story of a double murder. Released in January, it’s received raves for its look at different social ladders in modern Indian society.
Pale Moon | Director: Daihachi Yoshida (2014)
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Rei Miyazawa won the best leading actress award at last year’s Tokyo International Film Festival for her role that inverts the Japanese crime genre. She stars as a housewife that gets deeper into the underworld embezzling money for her young paramour.
Chasuke’s Journey | Director: Sabu (2015)
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The award-winning director Sabu cuts loose in this family romance. Adapted from his unpublished novel and shot entirely in Okinawa, he echoes his earlier cult classics like Dangun Runner with yakuza hijinks and frenetic plotting. However, Chasuke’s Journey incorporates the island’s folk culture and a fantastical spirit for its affirming message. The film premiered at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival and will be released in Japan on June 27. It’s one of the many contemporary Japanese films that will be part of SIFF’s Panorama look at the country.
A Minor Leap Down | Director: Hamed Rajabi (2015)
The screenwriter behind festival hits Rainy Seasons and Parvis jumps into the director’s seat for the first time in this thought-provoking look at the different interactions within Iran’s emerging stylized middle class. It debuted last year at the Berlin International Film Festival and is part of SIFF’s Panorama look at Iranian cinema, featuring other contemporary drams like Ghesse-ha, Melbourne and What’s the Time in Your World?
Sway | Director: Rooth Tang (2014)
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Featuring massive stars Ananda Everingham and Chung-tien Wu, this film debut to great acclaim at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Three parallel love stories set in three different cities are set against the backdrop of massive international events like Bangkok protests and the French intervention of Mali. It’s an astonishing debut from director Rooth Tang that’s been praised for its rich visuals.
Make Me Shudder | Director: Poj Arnon (2013)
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The Thai program of SIFF’s Panorama series is heavy on crowd-pleasing comedies like The Teacher’s Diary, Ai Fai, Thank You...Love You, Love in the Moment and Call Me Bad Girl. This horror-comedy is one of the hottest in Thailand. It follows a group of students prepping for their university exam. Since they haven’t studied, they make a pilgrimage to the Mae Nak Shrine where one of them insults it. As a result, they’re sent back to Mae Nak’s era in a movies that extreme laughs with extreme scares.
Asia New Talent Award
End of Winter | Director: Kim Dae-Hwan (2014)
The co-winners to last year’s Busan International Film Festival’s (BIFF) New Currents award go head to head for SIFF’s Asia New Talent Award. In End of Winter, Kim Dae-hwan explores family drama as a professor retires and announces to his immediate family that he’s divorcing his wife, much to her surprise. A heavy snowstorm forces them to remain inside and confront the lingering fallout, while examining the dynamics of a South Korean family.
13 | Director: Hooman Seyedi (2014)
In the other BIFF New Currents Award winner, Hooman Seyedi follows a 13-year old Iranian boy who runs away from home due to his parents impending divorce. Constantly bullied at school, he finds solace in older street kids where he adapts to the violent environment. However, things quickly escalate in the tense feature that is becoming an international festival favorite.
Wolf Warriors | Director: Wu Jing (2015)
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Renowned martial arts actor Wu Jing returns to directing duty with this stylized film that follows in the footsteps of The Taking of Tiger Mountain in bringing back the war action-adventure. The film kept Kingsman: The Secret Service from the top of the Mainland box office when it debuted in April. The 3D-film follows a group of insurgent special force soldiers that form their own group to battle Scott Adkins (The Expandables II) and his group of foreign mercenaries. Along with Young Love Lost, it’s the Mainland contenders for SIFF’s Asia New Talent Award for Best Film.
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