Holy Spider breakout Zar Amir Ebrahimi will head the jury of the Nordic Competition at the 46th Göteborg Film Festival, running from January 27 – February 5.
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Hainan Island International Film Festival (HIIFF) in China’s Sanya has returned as an in-person event, following a relatively short Covid-related postponement, with separate competition sections for features, documentaries and shorts.
The festival opened on December 18 with a screening of Chinese filmmaker Da Peng’s Post Truth and is scheduled to wrap on December 25. It was originally scheduled to run December 3-10, but was postponed due to the on-going Covid situation.
Veteran festival director Marco Mueller recently joined HIIFF as artistic director. He previously headed programming for China’s Pingyao International Film Festival.
HIIFF’s 11-title competition section will screen recent festival favourites including Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun, Alice Diop’s Saint Omer and Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beasts. Chinese titles in competition include Chakme Rinpoche’s Georgia and Qiao Siyu’s The Cord Of Life. The documentary competition will screen eight titles (see line-up below).
In addition to the competition sections, the festival has sidebars including Gala screenings, Asian New Director, Fest Best, Panorama, New Horizons, Classics and Screenings by the Sea.
Asian New Director is screening Autobiography, directed by Indonesia’s Makbul Mubarak, which has won several prizes on the festival circuit this year; Bratya from Kazakhstan’s Darkhan Tulegenov; Imagine from Iran’s Ali Behrad; Leonor Will Never Die from the Philippines’ Martika Ramirez Escobar; Roleless by Japan’s Masahiko Sato, Yutaro Seki and Kentaro Hirase, and Indian director Jaishankar Aryar’s recent Busan winner Shivamma.
The Panorama section includes titles such as Ajoomma, from Singapore filmmaker He Shuming, A Man from Japan’s Kei Ishikawa and Emily Atef’s
Holy Spider breakout Zar Amir Ebrahimi will head the jury of the Nordic Competition at the 46th Göteborg Film Festival, running from January 27 – February 5.
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