Anthony Chen to debut latest work at Cannes Film Festival, it stars Zhou Dongyu
Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen is heading to the Cannes Film Festival once more, this fourth dimension to premiere his latest work, role of an anthology picture show called The Year Of The Everlasting Storm.
The Cannes Motion picture Festival official pick was announced on Thursday (Jun three). The 74th edition of the festival will have identify from Jul 6 to 17.
Chen is ane of vii filmmakers involved in the film, with each one creating a short flick in response to the lockdown caused by the COVID-nineteen pandemic.
His contribution is chosen The Interruption Away, a 24-minute moving-picture show, and features Chinese stars Zhou Dongyu and Zhang Yu. They play a young couple struggling through an extended lockdown with a young son.
Zhou is known for the picture Better Days, for which she won the Gilded Rooster award for all-time extra concluding year, while Zhang won the Gilt Horse for best leading player for Dying To Survive in 2018.
Chen wrote and directed his brusque film remotely from London. It was shot in Communist china and produced by Chen'south Giraffe Pictures and China'south Rediance.
The anthology film – produced and financed by Neon, the US distributor of Parasite – volition exist showcased in the Special Screenings section.
The six other international directors involved are Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jafar Panahi, Laura Poitras, Dominga Sotomayor, David Lowery and Malik Vitthal.
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This is the 37-twelvemonth-one-time Chen's tertiary outing at Cannes, following his short film Ah Ma, which won a Special Distinction Prize in 2007, and his debut feature Ilo Ilo, which was awarded the prestigious Camera d'Or in 2013. Ilo Ilo – the first film in his 'Growing Up' trilogy – went on to win 40 awards internationally, including 4 Golden Equus caballus Awards.
His second characteristic movie, Wet Season, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019. The third movie in the trilogy, Nosotros Are All Strangers, is also a pandemic-set up project. It is slated to kickoff production next year and will star the two lead actors from the previous films, Yeo Yann Yann and Koh Jia Ler.
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