19 h. ago Venice Film Festival welcomes stronger presence of Chinese films

Venice Film Festival welcomes stronger presence of Chinese films  China Daily

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36 h. ago China’s Xin Zhilei creates history with Venice Film Festival best actress gong

China’s Xin Zhilei has won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival, becoming the first Chinese woman to receive the honour in 14 years. The 39-year-old actress brought the Golden Lion trophy home on Saturday for her role in The Sun Rises on Us All, directed by Cai Shangjun. The film sees Xin play the harassed owner of a fashion retail business who is trying to reconcile with her former lover, who served time in prison for a crime she had committed. “I feel like I am dreaming,” Xin...

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42 h. ago Chinese star Xin Zhilei wins Best Actress at Venice Film Festival

Chinese star Xin Zhilei wins Best Actress at Venice Film Festival  chinadailyasia.com

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48 h. ago US indie film beats out Gaza war docudrama for Venice top prize

A gentle study of dysfunctional families by veteran American director Jim Jarmusch clinched the top prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, while a harrowing docudrama about the Gaza war took second. Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother starring Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver and Tom Waits, drew mostly positive reviews for its humorous portrayal of awkwardness and guilt. The Broken Flowers director, who wrote the script for three family get-togethers in upstate New York, Dublin and Paris,...

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51 h. ago World expects more Chinese films to present modern China: experts at Venice Film Festival

World expects more Chinese films to present modern China: experts at Venice Film Festival  Xinhua

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51 h. ago China's Xin Zhilei Wins Best Actress Award At Venice Film Festival

China's Xin Zhilei Wins Best Actress Award At Venice Film Festival  Barron's

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4 d. ago Russian film festival kicks off in Beijing, tours three Chinese cities

Russian film festival kicks off in Beijing, tours three Chinese cities  news.cgtn.com

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4 d. ago Masterful take by Hong Kong film The Last Dance on taboos surrounding death rituals

The Last Dance, a Hong Kong movie directed and written by local director Anselm Chan, took the city’s box office by storm after its theatrical release in November last year. The film shattered several domestic box office records, including the biggest single-day takings for a Hong Kong and Chinese-language film. It remains the highest-grossing locally produced movie in Hong Kong. The film also received 18 nominations and clinched five awards at the 43rd Hong Kong Film Awards in April. The...

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5 d. ago Beijing’s Victory Day parade, China’s film industry: SCMP daily highlights

Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. China’s military parade, as it happened: new weapons debut in show of deterrence China held a massive military parade along Changan Avenue in central Beijing, showcasing the country’s latest and most advanced weapons to commemorate the 80th anniversary of China’s victory over Japan in World War II. 2. The 5 key takeaways from China’s Victory Day military...

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5 d. ago More Chinese went to cinemas this summer, but filmmakers still face challenges

China’s film market showed signs of recovery this summer, but industry insiders said it was still grappling with challenges. By the end of last month, this year’s domestic box office totalled 39.23 billion yuan (US$5.5 billion), according to the China Film Administration, with over 900 million film-goers. The summer season generated 11.96 billion yuan in box office revenue, up 2.76 per cent year on year but well down on the 20.62 billion yuan record set in 2023 and the pre-pandemic levels of...

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6 d. ago 2025 Russian Film Festival opens in Beijing, showcasing 8 films to Chinese audiences

2025 Russian Film Festival opens in Beijing, showcasing 8 films to Chinese audiences  Global Times

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8 d. ago Jude Law became ‘obsessive’ Putin watcher for role as Russian leader

British actor Jude Law on Sunday said he became an “obsessive” watcher of Vladimir Putin as he prepared for his role as the Russian leader in his new film The Wizard of the Kremlin which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Law, 52, bears an uncanny resemblance to Putin, aping his scowl and distinctive walking style in the film by French director Olivier Assayas, which charts the rise of the former intelligence officer. “There’s a lot of footage one could watch and, personally, when I start...

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9 d. ago Thousands protest against Israeli siege of Gaza near Venice Film Festival

Thousands of people protested on Saturday against Israel’s siege of Gaza on the sidelines of the Venice Film Festival, seeking to move the spotlight from movie drama to real-world trauma. Organised by left-wing political groups in northeast Italy, the demonstration began in the early evening a few kilometres from the festival where top Hollywood talent from George Clooney and Julia Roberts to Emma Stone have walked the red carpet in recent days. The protesters, whose numbers Agence France-Presse...

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2 w. ago Surprising many, Nobody becomes China’s top 2D animated film at the box office

There’s a new king atop China’s 2D animated box office, and it’s Nobody. Shanghai Animation Film Studio’s movie has overtaken Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume as the highest-grossing 2D animated film in Chinese box office history while becoming a dark horse in the nation’s summer movie season. With its success, Nobody has dethroned the dominance of Japanese animated films in China. Before Nobody’s debut on August 2, the all-time top three such movies at the Chinese box office were Suzume, having...

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4 w. ago Hit Chinese film about Japanese war crimes highlights ‘forgotten history’

China’s latest blockbuster movie depicting one of Japan’s worst war crimes, the 1937 Nanking massacre, has been described by the director as part of an “invisible battle” as part to bring greater international recognition to the country’s suffering in World War II. Dead to Rights is based on the true story of how a young apprentice in a photo studio found and developed evidence of the atrocities in secret, which was later used in a war-crimes tribunal. The mass murder of civilians in the city,...

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