Shanghai adds Asian films to competition

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Festival News

The Shanghai International Film Festival 上海國際電影節 (16-24 June) has added additional Asian titles to its Golden Goblet international competition.

The three new entries are GAO Qunshu 高群書's Beijing Blues 神探亨特張, HUO Jianqi 霍建起's Falling Flowers 蕭紅 and UCHIDA Kenji 内田けんじ's Key of Life 鍵泥棒のメソッド (pictured).

Beijing Blues is a documentary-style police drama featuring non-professional actors. Gao won the runner-up Jury Grand Prix at Shanghai with his second feature Old Fish 千鈞一髮 (2007).

Falling Flowers is a melodrama about two writers trapped in Hong Kong during the Sino-Japanese war starring SONG Jia 宋佳 and HUANG Jue 黃覺. Huo previously won the Golden Goblet for best film with Life Show 生活秀 (2002).

Key of Life is a black comedy about a failed actor contemplating suicide who switches identities with a rich businessman who has amnesia, only to inherit problems with the yakuza. It is scheduled to open in Japan in September.

Seventeen films are now in competition including the previously announced Indian entry Colour of Sky ആകാശത്തിന്റെ നിറം, directed by Bijukumar DAMODARAN.

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