This year, IFFAM launches a new competitive section – New Chinese Cinema – a showcase of films representing the programming team’s choice of the best of Chinese language cinema first screened in 2018.
Two films from New Chinese Cinema section are screening today.
Baby
Directed by awarded Chinese director Liu Jie, who won the Orrizonti Awards at 63rd and 66th Venice International Film Festival, Baby is a documentary style literary movie staring famous Chinese actress Yang Mi as a 19 year-old cleaner Jiang Meng who was abandoned at birth because of a genetic disorder and she wants to rescue a new-born girl who born with the same congenital defects.
In this movie, Yang undergoes a miraculous transformation, losing her vacuous prettiness to portray a brittle, harried working-class woman prematurely aged by ill health and poverty.This movie has screened in 2018 Toronto International Film festival.
The Pluto Moment
The Pluto Moment had its world premiere in Directors Fortnight at Cannes this year. Director Zhang Ming is the professor of the department of directing at Beijing Film Academy. His movies been selected and screened at many international festivals.
The story tells a trip in deep mountains of southwest China of film director Wang Zhun. In this trip he meets a savvy producer; a handsome young actor just beginning his career; and the videographer and during the trip, the relationships among the crewmembers change and the trip begins to lose its direction. Wang Zhun’s rootless, fearful emotions are stripped bare.
A local production from Gala section is also screening today.
Nobody Nose
Nobody Nose is a co-productions of Macau and mainland China and it is adapted from Macau’s famous writers’ fictions. It stars famous Hong Kong actor Lam Ka Tung as a former Macao police captain Liang Jinghui who is now working security at a hotel, but spends his spare time trying to put together evidence to solve a three year-old case that left one of his colleagues dead and a criminal mastermind free. When he stumbles across a cyber finance company trying to create a new financial platform in Macao, he smells a rat. He resigns from his security job and gets hired by the heads of the “Sim coin” company – Simon and his alluring partner Guo Wanjun. The keen-nosed Hui sniffs out a conspiracy that could also lead him to close the case that haunts him.
Director Kong Ruiliang worked across numerous films and TV dramas including Heroes Forged In Fire and A Hero With No Regrets. The film was shoot in Macau.
