China’s Pingyao Worldwide Movie Competition (PYIFF) has unveiled its full choice, together with the titles for its Crouching Tigers competitors, which is able to display screen 11 movies together with Cannes award winners My Father’s Shadow and The President’s Cake.
The President’s Cake, from Iraq’s Hasan Hadi, received the Digicam d’Or at this yr’s Cannes movie pageant, whereas My Father’s Shadow, directed by Nigeria’s Akinola Davies Jr, acquired a Digicam d’Or Particular Point out. Crouching Tigers can even display screen Akio Fujimoto’s Misplaced Land, which received the Particular Jury Prize within the Horizons part of this yr’s Venice movie pageant.
Crouching Tigers selects first, second and third movies from worldwide administrators, whereas the pageant’s Hidden Dragons competitors focuses on movies from rising administrators making Chinese language-language movies. This yr, the Hidden Dragons line-up of 11 movies consists of Singapore filmmaker Tan Siyou’s Amoeba, recent from its world premiere in Toronto, and Li Dongmei’s Guo Ran, which premiered in Rotterdam (see full line-up under).
The pageant has additionally set Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After One other because the opening movie of its Galas part, which is able to display screen 9 worldwide movies. The Galas line-up additionally consists of Cannes award winners similar to Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent and Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Worth; and Sho Miyake’s Locarno Golden Leopard winner Two Seasons, Two Strangers (see full line-up under).
Particular Shows on the pageant embrace documentary Mr. Kim Goes To The Cinema, directed by Busan Worldwide Movie Competition co-founder Kim Dong-ho; Chinese language director Feng Xiaogang’s 2004 motion comedy A World With out Thieves; Andrea Segre’s documentary brief The Nice Ambition and Zhang Dalei’s brief movie Pleased New 12 months Mr Wooden.
Based by Chinese language auteur Jia Zhangke and held yearly within the UNESCO heritage website of Pingyao, Shanxi province, the pageant goals to showcase rising Chinese language expertise in addition to convey status worldwide cinema to Chinese language audiences.
The pageant additionally contains a Made In Shanxi part, screening six world premieres from filmmakers primarily based in Shanxi, additionally Jia’s house province. This yr’s Cinephile screening is Yu Shui’s blockbuster animation No one, which has grossed $222M on the China field workplace.
Pingyao movie pageant is scheduled to run September 24-30. The pageant will announce its closing movie and Pingyao Shock Choice in coming days.
PINGYAO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2025:
CROUCHING TIGERS:
Rebuilding (US) AP
Dir: Max Walker-Silverman
The Final Blossom (Japan) AP
Dir: Baku Kinoshita
[Animation]
My Father’s Shadow (Nigeria, UK) CP
Dir: Akinola Davies Jr
Wild Foxes (France. Belgium) CP
Dir: Valéry Carnoy
The Bloodbath Of Gilles De Rais (Portugal) WP
Dir: Juan Branco
Reedland (Netherlands, Belgium) CP
Dir: Sven Bresser
Misplaced Land (Japan, France, Malaysia, Germany) AP
Dir: Akio Fujimoto
The World Of Love (South Korea) AP
Dir: Yoon Ga-Eun
Adam’s Sake (Belgium, France) CP
Dir: Laura Wandel
Dandelion’s Odyssey (Francem, Belgium) AP
Dir: Momoko Seto
[Animation]
The President’s Cake (Iraq, US, Qatar) CP
Dir: Hasan Hadi
HIDDEN DRAGONS:
Jet Lag In Summer time (Hong Kong, China, US) WP
Dir: Yan Kun-Ao
Pleased Ladies (China) WP
Dir: Meng Xing
Guo Ran (China) AP
Dir: Li Dongmei
Amoeba (Singapore, Netherlands, France, Spain, Korea) AP
Dir: Siyou Tan
The Toddling Youths (China) WP
Dir: Qi Yanyan
[Documentary]
A Lengthy Method Dwelling (China) WP
Dir: Zheng Xusong
[Documentary]
Nighttime Sounds (China) AP
Dir: Zhang Zhongchen
Deep Quiet Room (Taiwan, China, Italy) WP
Dir: Ko-Shang Shen
#4 Street To Vendetta (Hong Kong, China) AP
Dir: Njo Kui Ying
One other World (Hong Kong, China) AP
Dir: Tommy Ng Kai Chung
[Animation]
West Border (China) AP
Dir: Luo Yan
GALAS:
One Battle After One other (US)
Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson
[OPENING FILM]
Love On Trial (Japan)
Dir: Kôji Fukada
Two Seasons, Two Strangers (Japan)
Dir: Sho Miyake
The Secret Agent (Brazil, France, Germany, Netherlands)
Dir: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Girl And Youngster (Iran, France)
Dir: Saeed Roustayi
Expensive Stranger (Japan, Taiwan, China, US)
Dir: Tetsuya Mariko
Sentimental Worth (Norway, France, Denmark, Germany, Sweden)
Dir: Joachim Trier
Case137 (France)
Dir: Dominik Moll
The Mastermind (US, UK)
Dir: Kelly Reichardt
