Zhang Jiarui’s ’Beautiful Voyage’ now seems likely to open the festival.
The Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff) has pulled one of its two opening films, Huayi Brothers’ war epic The Eight Hundred, just one day before its opening ceremony on June 15.
The sudden cancellation was made for “technical reasons” but in recent months this phrase has often been used when a film has censorship problems. It was the reason cited when Zhang Yimou’s One Second and Derek Tsang’s Better Days were pulled from the Berlin Film Festival in February.
Directed by Guan Hu (Mr Six),The Eight Hundred...
The Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff) has pulled one of its two opening films, Huayi Brothers’ war epic The Eight Hundred, just one day before its opening ceremony on June 15.
The sudden cancellation was made for “technical reasons” but in recent months this phrase has often been used when a film has censorship problems. It was the reason cited when Zhang Yimou’s One Second and Derek Tsang’s Better Days were pulled from the Berlin Film Festival in February.
Directed by Guan Hu (Mr Six),The Eight Hundred...
- 6/14/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
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