The 5th Mulan International Film Festival opens in Toronto, Canada
2024-08-10
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China News Service, Toronto, August 9 (Reporter Yu Ruidong) The 5th Mulan International Film Festival opened on August 9 on the campus of the University of Toronto, a well-known Canadian university.
The nine-day Mulan International Film Festival will screen 44 Chinese-language feature films and short films from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, North America and Europe. The opening film is "Love is a Gun", the debut work written, directed and acted by Taiwanese director and actor Li Hongqi. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year and won the "Future Lion" award. "Xiaoyao·You" by Liang Ming, a Chinese director, was selected as the closing film. During the screening of some films, the directors will interact with the audience online or on-site Q&A.
On August 9, local time, the 5th Mulan International Film Festival opened on the campus of the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. The picture shows the artistic director of the film festival, Shen Wei (left), introducing the highlights of this year's film festival to the audience before the opening film screening. Photo by Yu Ruidong, a reporter from China News Service
The film festival has multiple screening units including "The Fountainhead", "Lily vs. Leviathan" and "Yin Yang". In the "The Fountainhead" competition unit focusing on emerging directors and their original works, eight shortlisted short films will compete for the "Best Short Film Jury Award" awarded by the jury and the "Audience Choice Award" selected by the audience.
The "Looking Back" unit will screen many classic films, including "Half a Lifelong Romance" by Hong Kong director Ann Hui, "Long Live the Madam" and "Middle Ages of Sorrow" by the late Chinese director Sang Hu, and "Flowers of Shanghai" by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien.
The film festival will also host a number of "deep conversation" industry events to promote exchanges between filmmakers, critics, curators and movie fans, focusing on the challenges faced by emerging filmmakers and the current status of the Chinese-language film industry.
Shen Wei, artistic director of the Mulan International Film Festival, introduced that this year's film festival will launch the "First Feature Film Development Laboratory" project for the first time, providing guidance and support for the first Chinese feature film projects of selected new directors.
As an invited guest, Chinese director Yang Chao said that the Mulan Film Festival, through its unique "Laboratory" project, can provide young people studying film abroad with a platform and creative opportunities to cooperate with the Chinese film industry.
Wang Yanjun, the Consul of the Chinese Consulate General in Toronto, praised the Mulan Film Festival for taking "breaking" as the main visual, highlighting the meaning of innovation. The film festival has become a "dream-seeking unit" for a group of young filmmakers with ideals.
A group of young Chinese in Toronto founded the Mulan International Film Festival in 2018, aiming to promote Canadian audiences' attention to Chinese-language films, enhance their appreciation of Chinese films, and inspire them to think about and discuss urgent global issues through film screenings, exhibitions, seminars, and forums. The festival is held in Toronto every August, and there are also year-round screenings. (End)
