With the 23rd Shanghai International Film Festival about to open, many fans are already eager to try it out. Before carefully arranging your own schedule, we recommend that you read the following article on the new film inventory. As we all know, the classic films of the Shanghai International Film Festival are often difficult to find, and this big inventory to recommend to everyone is 100 super good-looking new films with their own highlights and worth chasing.
Everyone should know that classic films are often new and come to Japan for a long time, but excellent new films often only walk once, and the chance of seeing them again is minimal, so we recommend that fans watch as many new films as possible at film festivals in order to understand and grasp the latest trends in global films. Please review the top 100 new films below, more than one suitable for you:
Gilded sounds
Golden Voices
Audiences familiar with translation and production are a must-see. This Israeli film tells the story of a soviet-era Jewish-american voice-over couple who immigrated to Israel and had to become a phone girl, using a lot of life humor and movie clips to trigger a fandom complex.
Nicholas's new outfit
ACostume For Nicolas
This milky and sweet Mexican cartoon uses the adventure of the little constantly changing clothes to the earth, imitating the narrative perspective of the classic fairy tale The Wizard of Oz, and playfully telling the truth that happiness can only be achieved by bravely facing difficulties.
echo
Echo
The Icelandic version of "Floating Day" expresses real life with poetic logic through non-professional actors, and collages a mosaic of Icelandic beings through the life scenes of 56 Christmas holidays, strung together into a miniature hologram of Icelandic society.
Girls
Schoolgirls
A transfer girl from a big city breaks the calm of the town's Catholic school. By enabling professional and non-professional actors, the sexual consciousness of an 11-year-old girl is displayed, and the impulse and confusion of youth are vividly highlighted.
Red Moon
Red Moon Tide
This Spanish film tells the medieval ghost legend in a very peculiar way, the camera composition pays tribute to the classical painting, and the picture of green water and grass resembles Tarkovsky's "Flying into Space", which frightens you silently.
Truth and justice
Truth and Justice
The centenary tribute film of the founding of Estonia adapts the Epic Masterpiece of Estonia's National Treasure into a family legend, bringing the most thrilling stories of faith and betrayal.
Happy birthday to you
Happy Birthday
The French family drama of Len (si) (bi) shows 11 characters in a 24-hour battle for a house on the occasion of her mother, played by the French screen goddess Catherine Deneuve.
The perfect candidate
The Perfect Candidate
Saudi Arabia's first female director, Haifa Al-Mansour, once again challenged saudi patriarchal society by telling the story of a Saudi female doctor participating in a political election, and represented Saudi Arabia in the 92nd Academy Award for Best International Film.
My heartbeat is yours
My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To
A contemporary vampire fairy tale about the brother who kills to save his brother's life by killing new blood, weaves mysterious elements into a realistic style family drama, bloody and shows the symbiotic relationship of family and family struggling on the line of death.
The truth
The Truth
The Master of Japanese Cinema is Kore-eda's first non-Japanese film, joining hands with two generations of French screen goddesses Catherine Deneuve and Juliet Binoche to stage a drama within a play between poisonous tongues and humor with the theme of the reunion of mother and daughter.
6.5 million
Just 6.5
A rare Iranian police action movie. Through a social perspective to introduce us to modern Iran, it warns of the terrible situation of 6.5 million civilian drug users whose indigenous drug industry has led to a surge, and won the Best Director and Best Actor awards in the main competition section of the 2019 Tokyo International Film Festival.
Monkey
Monkeys
Based on the real-life events of farC, the "FarcionIst Armed Forces of Colombia" that recruited a large number of minors, it tells the story of children trained as war machines who fall into madness in the jungle due to a change, and brilliantly portrays the human instincts of innocence and barbarism under the primitive law of survival.
milk tooth
Babyteeth
This film about the adventures of terminally ill girls breaks the limitations of the theme of pink chicken soup in the terminally ill category of chicks, reflects the plight of ordinary family members, and uses the tone of candy fairy tales to lightly show heavy topics of life and death.
Young Ahmed
YoungAhmed
The latest work of the Danées, two Winners of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the latest work of the Danées brothers, using non-professional actors and carefully designed handheld long cameras, cuts from sensitive religious and European immigration topics to discuss the current cultural and living conditions of the Muslim community in Europe.
Desperate crocodile mouth
Black Water: Abyss
When you encounter a flood or a crocodile at the same time, which is more terrifying? This film is the sequel to the 2007 Australian thriller "Blackwater", which cleverly traps the characters in the water, coupled with the deep environment inside the cave, bringing the whole scary fear of no urine point.
Accompany the old cannon
PapaSitter
What should the gendarme grandfather do when he collides with his hippie grandfather and the granddaughter caught in the middle? This French family comedy creates a strong comedic conflict through two diametrically opposed character images, combined with the granddaughter who sprinkles peppers on the conflict, bringing a funny trio of young and old.
anna
Ana
"Little Wolverine" Daphne Keane and "Third Generation Godfather" Andy Garcia starred as a pair of "halfway fathers and daughters", combined with the reality of the existential crisis caused by Hurricane Maria, to bring a mutual redemption of the heart-warming Puerto Rican road trip.
Wish room
The Room
If there was a room that fulfilled your wishes, what would you make? The film, which won the Best Picture Award at the 2019 Bucheon International Fantasy Film Festival, uses "haunted houses" as a thriller theme to create a world of "infinite desire" that is difficult to fill.
Baumbach syndrome
Baumbacher Syndrome
A talk show host wakes up in the morning and suddenly becomes the sound of "Optimus Prime", how will the crazy world unfold? This film points directly to people's hearts through fantasy settings, and inspires us to re-examine the joys and sorrows in life with unique comedic effects.
The Painting of Great Love
The Big Love Picture
The fairy tale routine of "prince and princess" does not work in this romantic comedy! This film takes a pair of men and women who know and love each other as the main line, deconstructs and ridicules the genre characteristics of romantic comedy through the voice-over of the play, showing the chicken feathers of life at the same time, combining fairy tales and reality to reflect on the true meaning of reality behind romantic love.
Gasser
Gasman
This satirical comedy focuses on an anti-hero "Buddhist youth" who refuses to grow up in his thirties, and through the drama of theater rehearsal, he juxtaposes experimental drama with real life to build an intriguing intertextual relationship.
Visitors from Beirut
Man From Beirut
How does a blind killer kill someone? This anti-traditional film noir combines retro academy formats with high-contrast black and white images in a minimalist style to create an artistic killer fairy tale.
Spirit 0
Zero
Contemporary Japanese documentary master Kazuhiro Mita's latest "Observation Film", which is also a sequel to the Complete Spiritual Handbook, focuses on the decision of a psychiatrist to retire to accompany his wife with Alzheimer's disease, based on the concept of no script, using long shots to shoot independently, full of affection without intervention.
My end, your beginning
Relativity
Inspired by the work of the movie god Christopher Nolan, this slightly sci-fi romance film uses a non-linear narrative that is flexibly reassembled in three timelines to explore the age-old philosophical question of how much our lives are presupposed.
Ava's Garden of Eden
That
This science fiction film focuses on the island of the human heart, using the legend of the Garden of Eden to construct an emotional spark between a physically sensitive patient and a psychiatrist, and watching it in the current epidemic situation can bring the most intuitive soul stirring.
Hammamet
Hammamet
Italian film master Giani Amelio and Italian personality actor Pierre Francesco Favino focus on the last days before the death of former Italian Prime Minister Betino Clarksy, exploring the various bonds between him and his family and friends in his twilight years.
fortress
Fortress
How do prison inmates act in movies? This film revolving around the labyrinth of time is adapted from dino Buzzatti's novel Desert of the Tatars, known as the "Kafka of Italy", and is filmed in the Italian prison of Civitavecchia, starring prison inmates, who explore the truth of time in a fictional story.
pipeline
Encounters
A young man who wants to get rid of a cult embarks on a different escape. Through fragmented scene jumps and character narration, the film slowly pieces together the reflections of a marginalized person on the edge of society on himself and the world, showing an addictive South American nightmare.
Narcisse and Goldmund
Narcissus and Goldmund
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Nobel Laureate in Literature Hermann Hesse, with gorgeous retro dream shots, through the conflict between the two extreme human natures of abstinence rationality and indulgence, it explores the dual roles of religion and art, reason and emotion in the pursuit of ideal life, and shows the romantic friendship of the Middle Ages.
Southern Law Sister Chronicles
AllHands on Deck
This romantic story about black youth who wants to go to the south of France for a vacation, abandons the narrative technique of the beautiful and unrestrained American youth travel film, uses the sunny scenery of southern France, and humorously depicts the subtle state of mind of ordinary people facing love and growth through the perspective of three ordinary French boys.
1917
Oscar Best Director Sam Mendes, based on his grandfather's experience of world war I, chose an ordinary day in the battlefield and narrated the two ordinary soldiers' challenge to the impossible path of Shura from beginning to end. Roger Deakins, the god of photography, overcame many technical obstacles to poetically present cruel images, and won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for the second time.
Points
Instinct
What kind of instinctive sparks do psychologists and sex offenders spark? This film about forbidden love depicts the control relationship between the sexes from a female perspective, which can be called a model of anti-PUA.
kingdom
The Kingdom
This absurd comedy uses Hamlet-style classical court stories playfully placed in a modern context, combined with a variety of European and American pop culture memes, and stages a story of an older fat otaku sleepwalking wonderland with the contrast between ancient and modern.
Gravityless man
The Man Without Gravity
How will a person who has not been affected by gravity from childhood show his superpowers in the face of the general public? This subversive hero theme film closely follows reality at the beginning of the fantasy American blockbuster, returns to romantic love, and shows the love and hatred of ordinary people under the aura of fame and fortune.
Wendy
Undine
The first of Germany's contemporary cinematic leading figures Christian Petzold's "Elf Trilogy" and a 2020 Berlin Film Festival hit, it places classical mythology in a modern context, delicately intertwining fantasy and reality, and telling a German version of the mermaid legend.
My stupid dog
My Dog Stupid
The French film industry sages Ivan Adal and Charlotte Gansbud truly interpret the 25-year itch, using the form of chapter back novels to balance the repressive theme of midlife crisis and light French comedy, using seemingly nonsensical plot settings to highlight the philosophy of life that returns to the basics.
hurricane
Hurricane
This debut psychological thriller tells the story of a ungoverned MMA fighter battling multiple personality disorders, and through handheld photography and interlude flashbacks, it uncovers the reality of Latin immigrants living in the United States with passion and suffering.
European beauty
The Europeans
Based on the novel of the same name, through the story of the Spanish bachelor's hunting journey, it restores the hedonistic atmosphere of Europe in the late 1950s, expresses Spain's long-standing identity dislocation and isolation under European integration, and has some enlightenment for the disintegration of today's EU member states.
Next step happiness
Hope Gap
William Nicholson, a well-known British screenwriter with two Oscars, wrote and directed his own works based on real experience, revealing the differences in the concept of marriage and family through the story of an affair with an old father, and bill Nye, the old British drama bone who played the couple, and the American film star Annette Bening staged a divorce war in the film.
Love is on earth
Ordinary Love
Adapted from the personal experience of screenwriter Owen McAferty and his wife, telling the emotional life between the husband and wife after his wife's cancer, the two stars Liam Neeson and Leslie Manville delicately interpret the cancer patient family, vividly portraying the extraordinary emotional journey of this ordinary couple.
That's me
All That I Am
From the age of six to twelve, the girl Emily never realized she was being sexually assaulted by her father until a sex education class told her what had happened. Norwegian female director Grana tracks down Emily's two-year documentary, bravely telling the world through Emily's mouth, so that innocent children will no longer be tortured.
Hold your breath
One Breath
Based on the true experience of Russia's "free diving queen" Natalia Murchanova, it shows the psychological trauma of the original family through the interlacing of reality and water illusions, and combines imagery metaphors to explore the inspirational story of retired swimmers challenging the limits of freediving.
Barefoot Emperor
The Barefoot Emperor
The sequel to the 2016 Venice Film Festival hit "King of Belgium". This pseudo-political comedy expresses its dissatisfaction with the status quo in Europe in an absurdist way by telling the story of King Nicholas III of Belgium having to face a new surreal threat, a metaphor for the European identity crisis.
Bloody flowers
Queens of the Field
This Classic French comedy tells the story of a small town in which "good wives and mothers" form a team, showing the unique vitality of women and the frenchman's enthusiasm for football in a hilarious plot, and brilliantly staged a drama of "not loving husband and loving football".
Gypsy Queen
Gipsy Queen
How does a single mother regain her boxing dreams and become a "gypsy queen"? This inspirational film focuses on the transformation from a fallen mother to a boxing queen, not only showing fist-to-flesh and heart-popping boxing matches, but also deeply reflecting the immigration problems faced by German society.
The thief's daughter
A Thief's Daughter
This low-budget family film depicts the joys and sorrows of ordinary families in Spain with restrained emotions, and the daughter of the old drama bone of the film industry, Életa Fernandez, played the single mother in the film, playing the role of a single mother in the film, won the 2019 San Sebastian Film Festival.
Jailbreak agreement
Jailbreak Pact
Based on the real prison escape in Chilean history in 1990, inviting the prison escape planner to serve as the film consultant, bringing together many first-line movie stars in Chile to star, it is a very realistic reproduction of the thrilling process of 49 political prisoners who spent 18 months to escape from prison, which can be called the Chilean version of "The Shawshank Redemption".
lighthouse
The Lighthouse
Horror director Robert Eggers' latest thriller after The Witch and a 2019 Cannes Film Festival hit, based on real events, with the help of Hollywood stars Robert Pattinson and William Dafoe, combines an obscure story and bold audiovisual language to bring a spooky and mysterious movie-going experience.
Family Romance Limited
Family Romance, LLC.
The latest work of German film master Werner Herzog, combining everyday performances, blurring the boundaries between documentary and drama, makes extensive use of close-up and close-up shots of characters, telling a story that brings real life experience to customers through character customization.
perfume
Perfumes
When the perfume master suddenly loses his sense of smell, how should he face life? French César Awards film queen Emmanuel Deve transformed into a "perfume" fashion witch, together with the French Crystal Ball Award "Emperor" Gregory Montaire, together through the perfume to rub out the spark of love.
Silent resistance
Resistance
This French version of "A Beautiful Life" is based on a large number of early evidence and first-hand interviews, with exquisite scenes and real shots to restore the thrilling history of mime artists in the World War II period who bravely saved children, and Hollywood's popular actor Jesse Eisenberg vividly portrayed this ordinary hero.
Sea fever
Sea Fever
This thriller, which superimposes the claustrophobic fear of the deep sea and the panic of infectious diseases, pioneers the visual contrast between the ocean exterior and the interior of the cabin, isolating the self-help bridge section reminiscent of the current reality of the epidemic, bringing a thrilling and desperate voyage.
Good dreams for a day trip
The Belle Epoque
Cannes film emperor Daniel Otey and Truffaut's widow Fanny Aldan and many other famous actors joined forces to let the characters "travel" through time and space to change history through the "play within a play" mode, in order to regain the love of the past and stage a moving scene.
Kubrick talks about Kubrick
Kubrick by Kubrick
The precious recordings of film master Kubrick are made public! Director Gregory Monroe rearranged some of Kubrick's interview recordings, combining interviews with many of Kubrick's collaborators, excerpts from masterpieces, and a large number of precious behind-the-scenes work photos, etc., to tell the secrets of Kubrick's cinematic universe with Kubrick's mouth.
Recreate Cunningham
Cunningham
Filmed to commemorate the centenary of the birth of American modern dance master Moss Cunningham. Female director Ella Cofogan extracts the essence from a large number of precious dance archives and interview recordings, and presents it to the audience in the form of a 3D big screen with newly choreographed classic dance passages in various special scenes.
Making Sound Effects: The Art of Film Sound
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
This documentary on film sound effects presents a big world of cinema that is both good and good to listen to through interviews with Spielberg, George Lucas, Ang Lee, David Lynch and many other famous directors, combined with the explanations of Walter Murch, Ben Beltt and many other Oscar sound design masters.
It's not a movie
This Is Not a Movie
Director Zhang Qiaoyong, who won the Golden Horse Award for Best Documentary, aimed at the 73-year-old British war correspondent Robert Fisk, followed Fisk into the most dangerous area of the Syrian border war, combined with a large number of video archives to review the most real and precious historical moments. In an era of "fake news", this documentary is particularly precious.
Jazz Diva
Billie
This is a film noir style documentary, director James Erskine combined with the American journalist Linda Quer's extensive audio interview with the jazz diva Billie Holly Day's surroundings, collecting many rare images and photos of Holly Day, reconstructing her ups and downs in a complete way, showing the historical side of the American Jazz Age.
Chelsea, a women's soldier
XY Chelsea
Former U.S. Army soldier Bradley Manning was arrested for disclosing classified military and diplomatic files, and changed her gender to a woman during her imprisonment, changing her name to Chelsea Manning. The documentary follows Chelsea's pardon and shows the transgender man's path of freedom struggle with exclusive secrets.
Tropical rain
Wet Season
Singaporean director Tan Chul Yi, who won the Golden Horse Award for Best Picture for "Mom and Dad Are Not Home", is the second feature film in six years, showing the warmth of the disordered southern world through cool tones. Yang Yanyan, who played mother and son in "Mom and Dad Are Not At Home", and Xu Jiale joined hands again to stage a passionate teacher-student relationship.
He dreamed of giants
He Dreams of Giants
What filmmaker would dare to say he is more bitter than the master of fantasy cinema, Terry Gilliam? This movie old boy struggled for nearly twenty years to make "This Man From a Crazy World"! The documentary revolves around Gilliam's two-time filming of this "cursed" film, depicting the crazy artist's bottlenecks, torments and love for the film as he creates.
Happy Death Day 2
Happy Death Day 2U
The sequel to the topical horror comedy "Happy Death Day", the original class returns again, telling the strange story of college student Terri accidentally falling back to her birthday. Based on the narrative concept of the grand universe, this film mixes the youth campus with science fiction suspense, plays with multiple event variables of parallel time and space, and shows N kinds of death methods in different dimensions.
Joker Returns 2
It: Chapter Two
The sequel to the horror hit "Joker Returns" two years later, adapted from the original book of the same name by horror fiction master Stephen King, tells the story of the former bad boy gang who grew up twenty-seven years old and reunited to try to end the Joker nightmare. "Model Sister" Jessica Chastain and "One Beauty" James McAvoy played the protagonist when they grew up.
We
Us
Black director Jordan Peel, who won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for his debut film Breaking Bad, wrote and directed his second horror film, which explores the conflict between class, race and privilege at a cost of $20 million through a sci-fi shell. After its release in the spring of 2019, it grossed $255 million worldwide.
Doctor Sleep
Doctor Sleep
Adapted from the 2013 novel of the same name by horror fiction master Stephen King, and the sequel to the 1977 novel The Shining, it follows the life of Danny, who has been shadowed by childhood, growing up. The film reconstructs the classic scenes and visual elements of The Shining, incorporates new supernatural villain characters, and works with British power actor Ivan McGregor to recreate the nightmare years of the cult madness.
Spells
Abracadabra
The magician's closing performance has a big accident, what secret is hidden behind the trouble? This Indonesian fantasy comedy black fairy tale takes the "magic box" as the main line of time and space travel, and the bright candy color aesthetic illuminates the absurd into reality, combining the German Expressionist scene design and the classic fragment of the film "Magician" George Mérière, paying tribute to the early film history.
Long time no see
Long Time No See
Marion and Gregory have been separated for nine years, but they accidentally meet at the station, and the former couple, who are already married in their thirties, awkwardly try to renew the frontier. A short and pithy love sketch, witty French sister-stirring techniques let the audience be in romance from beginning to end, looking back at the past unwillingness and helplessness and tearing apart the pungency of life.
Time machine
Happy Old Year
With the theme of "Breaking Away", this Thai little fresh film constructs a sad but healing memory journey based on a minimalist style through six chapters, and the popular Thai actress Judimund Chon Charong Suin ("Genius Gunner") and the popular young student Sonny Suva metanon ("Can You Return Your Brother") co-starred in a breakup couple.
Two blue lines
Two Blue Stripes
Indonesian youth film screenwriter Gina Trish S. Nur and members of the JKT48 Indonesian girl idol group focus on the social problems of early marriage and early pregnancy of teenagers, telling the story of two high school students who fell in love after falling in love and causing an unexpected pregnancy through small and fresh brushstrokes, gently outlining the throbbing uneasiness of teenagers facing ideals and reality.
Salt of tears
The Salt of Tears
The latest masterpiece of French film master Philippe Garrell, which tells the love story of a young student in rural France between three women, is based on the background of the modern story and stages a contemporary Don Juan love education class with a French classicist charm.
It is not easy to be a teacher
Hey! Teachers!
The documentary uses Pink Floyd's lyrics to express the opposite point of view, through the depiction of two aspiring young teachers trying to change the dull campus environment with open minds, digging into potential social problems such as sexism and racism under the traditional knowledge system, and exploring the hardships and joys behind the spiritual beacon lighting up seedlings.
Immortal Sirlo
The Immortal
The spin-off film of the popular Italian gangster-themed TV series "Gomorrah", it is also the feature film debut of the action film "Tough Guy" Marco Damorey, starring in this film, he parodies Shakespeare's tragic hero, interlaces the reality with past memories through flashback cameras, and completely outlines the inhumane battle of "immortal myth" through the suspenseful gangster theme shell.
The screws are tightening
The Turn of the Screw
Set in New Zealand's modern theatre, this thriller is a new interpretation of the 1898 horror novel of the same name by the literary hero Henry James, which delicately extends the stage space through the form of seven actors rehearsing the play, blurring the double boundary between story and reality, film and drama in a play-within-a-play manner.
Ordinary God
Ordinary God
How hard is the road to becoming a star? Director Patrice Rivas's documentary debut took three years to shoot, revealing the bumpy road to six rising football stars, including Oliver Burke, Emmanuel Mamana and Correntin Torriso.
Silent bay
The Bay of Silence
Ukrainian sexy "Bang Girl" Oga Kryranko and Danish personality "Dracula" Klaas Bang bring this suspense film about the sudden disappearance of his wife and children and the frantic search for her husband with a couple of hearts, this film condenses the narrative to quickly switch the core of suspense and horror, through the contrast between black and white memory and color reality, secretly gushing out mysterious events that have been hidden for many years.
Moon landing rhetoric
The Science of Fictions
Ever thought that the moon landing might just be a conspiracy? This Indonesian absurd comedy refracts the mystery of Indonesia's historic coup through a villager who witnessed the fake shooting scene of the moon landing, and constructs a political allegory of the black comedy genre by breaking the fourth wall and uncovering historical wounds that technology and social progress cannot bridge.
playback
Play
This film about growth and love is like a pseudo-documentary version of "Boyhood", through the changing picture quality and format, telling the image of a man looking back at his life twenty-five years ago, and the audience can slowly grow up with the camera and regain the laughter, songs and love left in their youth.
Somewhere, someone
Someone, Somewhere
Does a pair of men and women living in parallel lines intersect? This French film abandons the rules of the romantic comedy genre, uses psychedelic electronic music to create a sense of social alienation in France, creates a connection between the two through minimalist objects, and explores the true meaning of love in the current society full of social software.
My baby
Sweetheart
How painful is it for a daughter to leave her mother? This "three women in one play" film connects the past and the present with a loose narrative rhythm, highlighting the joy and sadness of a single mother raising three children alone.
Crazy Big Makeover 2
Sheep and Wolves 2: Pig Deal
This Russian version of "Pleasant Goat and Gray Wolf" is the sequel to the cartoon "Crazy Transformation", which was once released in China, completely subverting the laws of nature and showing the crazy story of wolves protecting sheep with jokes.
Photographer in the midst of war
Photographer of War
The documentary presents the two-sided life of Danish photography master Jan Grapp through the hell of war and family life in a two-line narrative form, exploring the front and backstage of the rock star-like master photographer, and digging into the ordinary father's side of his son.
Eighteen gifts
18 Presents
This film based on real people and true events tells the story of a cancer-stricken mother who left eighteen gifts for her daughter before her death, and through supernatural techniques, the mother and daughter who are separated by yin and yang meet wonderfully, filling the gap of lost time without violating the "grandmother paradox", and smoothing the childhood knot between reality and fantasy.
No thorns with bare hands
Unarmed
Based on true events, it tells the thrilling story of a brave female journalist single-handedly challenging the mafia, and tells the courageous act of an ordinary person in the face of social injustice by presenting the process of the perfect family life being eroded after the female journalist faces death threats.
Good golfer
The Good One
This Italian film takes the self-redemption of ordinary people as the narrative core, telling the story of a middle-aged football agent who goes to a foreign country to find the next "Maradona", captures the midlife crisis of men through close-ups, shows the cultural differences between the two countries from the perspective of a foreign child, dissects the money empire behind the football world, and quietly brings the most powerful human torture.
Between dogs and wolves
Between Dog and Wolf
This film blurs the boundary between drama and documentary, telling the story of three Angolan civil war veterans who are unwilling to give up their fighting spirit, try to recover the glorious era of the past, record the daily life of the three warriors, combine the black and white images and recording materials of real battles, attack the destruction of human nature by war, and praise the spirit of struggle that never gives up.
Punch decisively
Strike Or Die
The documentary spans two eras, although collectivism has been replaced by individualism, but in the current environment of increasing national division in France, the spirit of the French mining town to fight for its rights and interests has never stopped, the front wave fights in a strike posture, and the back wave continues to strike decisively through punching.
Sleepwalkers
The Sleepwalkers
A seemingly harmonious family that struggles with various issues at Christmas, pushing social distancing through handheld photography, creating a suffocating home space with plenty of close-up shots and realistic ambient sound. Argentine Academy Awards actress Erica Rivas brilliantly portrays the embarrassment of a middle-aged woman walking nightmares.
Seaside Cinema
Labyrinth of Cinema
The final chapter of the brilliant life of film giant Obayashi Nobuhiko, with a theater that is about to close down as a performance stage, tells the story of three young people crossing into the screen world, and shows a live-action version of "Millennium Actress" with imaginative imagination and tearful plot.
Walk with the dancing spirits
Dancing Mary
The latest masterpiece of The Japanese comedy ghost and the jury of the Golden Jubilee Award of the 20th Shanghai International Film Festival, together with NAOTO, a member of the Japanese "migrant worker" celestial troupe EXELE, integrates elements such as socialism, horror and humor, and tells a heart-warming story that helps ghosts find lovers.
Promea
Promare
Directed by Yoyuki Imaishi, who had painted the original painting for Evangelion, this highly acclaimed hot-blooded robot animation will bring his personal style to the extreme, with a brilliant painting style and a super-burning plot that makes people addicted, and the famous Japanese artists Kenichi Matsuyama and Masa Sakai are dedicated to the film.
Female filmmakers
Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
British film historian Mark Katzsch, following "The Story of Film History", painstakingly completed in five years and with a total length of 840 minutes, is a fourteen-episode super-long documentary that takes female filmmakers as the perspective of a century-long film, analyzes the filmmaking skills of female directors around the world, and writes a love letter for female filmmakers. The first, fourth, sixth and fourteenth episodes of the festival will be screened.
Love isolation
The End of Love
This advanced version of the "desktop film" uses video telephony as a narrative gimmick to tell the story of a foreign newlywed couple who are separated by visas, engaging the audience in the life of the characters in a very immersive way, and jointly exploring the impact and erosion of modern communication methods on interpersonal relationships in the Internet age.
Goodbye, I love
Farewell Amor
Tanzanian-American female director Ava Masanji adapts her relatives and family members from the real experience of 24 years of separation between relatives and family in the United States and Africa, showing the tip of the iceberg of the hard work of 51 million immigrants in the United States, combining dance as a plot catalyst to make family communication under special identity and culture more universal.
Holiday camaraderie
Affection
What sparks will emerge between a retired female judge with Alzheimer's and a bar owner with manic depression? Shrouded in a melancholy blue, the film uses flashbacks to show painful memories, loose narratives leave unlimited imagination space for the audience, and delicate emotional capture adds a different dramatic tension.
freshman
Into the World
This is a completely feminist film, from the creators to the actors are women, with the birth of a new life to awaken people's rethinking of human relationships. Sandrina Bonaire, who won the Venice Film Festival with Huppel for "Cold Sacrifice", brilliantly portrays a midwife who reminisces about her past because of her experience in the delivery room.
Varan: Valley of the Angels
Valan-Valley of the Angels
This film combines all the classic elements of a police thriller, implicates the shocking underground of Eastern Europe through a school girl disappearance, and adds an infiltration and spooky atmosphere with snow and dense forests, launching a thrilling pursuit of "Memories of Killing".
Iri Tenka – Missing Friend
Jiří Trnka: A Long Lost Friend
Known as the "Walt Disney of Eastern Europe", Iri Tenka was the greatest Czech artist of the twentieth century and one of the founders of puppet animation. French director Joel Fargers takes the restoration of Tennka's animation as the main line, nesting the documentary in the drama film, mixing Theonka's living images and children's memories to truly reproduce Tennka's dream life.
White on top of white
White in White
In the early twentieth century, a photographer took wedding photos for a couple, but was attracted to the bride. The film combines chaotic white wasteland with a white wedding dress symbolizing purity, presenting the snowy landscape and secular style of "The End of the World", and unveiling the bloody and cruel contradiction between indigenous peoples and white conquerors.
Garbage Story
Trash
At a time when garbage sorting is rife, this cartoon about garbage people going on a big adventure to enter their "temple", the garbage sorting bin, will surely allow children to deepen their understanding of garbage sorting and environmental protection in a vivid and touching plot.
air conditioning
Air Conditioner
Angolan genius sound engineer Vladik uses a surrealist conception to tell the city's roaming story of psychic security guards looking for air conditioning, combining a variety of musical forms and neon light effects, showing the characteristics of the urban labyrinth of Luanda, the capital of Angola, through handheld tracking lenses, unveiling the current situation of Angolans and looming the historical pain of the country's colonization.