Women’s Voices, From ‘I’m Still Here’ to ‘Hard Truths,’ to Take the Stage at Beijing Film Festival
The Beijing Worldwide Film Festival has developed a status for placing a highlight on feminine voices in cinema.
Its fifteenth version, working April 18-26, is continuous that pattern with its sixth annual “Women’s Voice” part, that includes the likes of Walter Salles’ Oscar winner I’m Still Right here, the political autobiographical drama starring Fernanda Torres as a Brazilian girl whose dissident husband disappears, and Mike Leigh’s Exhausting Truths, his melancholy comedy-drama with Marianne Jean-Baptiste.
“In recent times, feminine creators and their tales have continued to emerge, and the voices of girls on display have develop into extra numerous and highly effective,” the Beijing pageant highlights. “These works proceed to break boundaries in kind and theme, bringing us richer and extra multi-dimensional feminine expressions.”
This yr’s lineup “brings collectively masters and rising creators from throughout the world” who “present the complicated faces of girls” in numerous conditions. “This isn’t solely a cinematic feast but additionally a profound dialogue about ladies’s feelings, our bodies and future.”
Additionally featured in the “Women’s Voice” part at Beijing are Sarah Friedland‘s Venice Horizons finest director, finest debut movie and finest actress winner Acquainted Contact, about an octogenarian transferring into an assisted dwelling facility; Rungano Nyoni’s Zambian household drama On Turning into a Guinea Fowl; Sandhya Suri’s Santosh, the Indian police procedural about two ladies forming an unlikely alliance; François Ozon’s When Fall Is Coming, a black comedy a few retiree with an advanced previous; and Magnus von Horn’s The Woman With the Needle, loosely primarily based on the story of Denmark’s most notorious serial killer, portrayed by Trine Dyrholm.
The primary competitors program at the fifteenth Beijing movie pageant may even function ladies’s tales, reminiscent of Frieda’s Case, the function debut of Maria Brendle a few ladies on trial for the homicide of her younger son, and Tobias Schmutzler, Kevin Schmutzler, Apuu Mourine, and Vallentine Chelluget’s Nawi: Pricey Future Me, Kenya’s Oscar submission a few younger woman fightinhg towards a pressured marriage and for her schooling and future. Chinese language actor-director Jiang Wen (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Let the Bullets Fly) will function the head of the principal competitors jury at the pageant.