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 one time over again, this time to premiere his latest work, part of an anthology moving picture called The Yr Of The Everlasting Tempest.
The Cannes Film Festival official pick was announced on Thursday (Jun three). The 74th edition of the festival volition take place from Jul 6 to 17.
Chen is one of seven filmmakers involved in the film, with each one creating a short film in response to the lockdown caused by the COVID-nineteen pandemic.
His contribution is called The Interruption Abroad, a 24-minute film, and features Chinese stars Zhou Dongyu and Zhang Yu. They play a immature couple struggling through an extended lockdown with a young son.
Zhou is known for the film Better Days, for which she won the Golden Rooster honor for all-time extra last yr, while Zhang won the Golden Horse for best leading actor for Dying To Survive in 2018.
Chen wrote and directed his short film remotely from London. It was shot in China and produced by Chen's Giraffe Pictures and China's Rediance.
The anthology moving picture – produced and financed past Neon, the The states benefactor of Parasite – volition be showcased in the Special Screenings department.
The half-dozen 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-yr-old Chen'south 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 Photographic camera d'Or in 2013. Ilo Ilo – the first film in his 'Growing Up' trilogy – went on to win xl awards internationally, including four Golden Equus caballus Awards.
His second feature film, Wet Season, premiered at the Toronto International Motion picture Festival in 2019. The third film in the trilogy, Nosotros Are All Strangers, is too a pandemic-gear up project. It is slated to commencement 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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