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‘Yellow Earth’ Restoration Decorates Pingyao Film Festival 8th Edition Lineup
A 40th anniversary edition of Chen Kaige's classic 'Yellow Earth' adorns the lineup of China's Pingyao film festival.
The festival’s Hidden Dragons section of Chinese-made films includes: the Asian premiere of Ma Lanhua’s “Hello, Spring”; the Asian premiere of Tang Yongkan’s “Stars and the Moon”; and world premieres of Wang Lina’s “Village Music”; Zhu Xin’s “A Song River”; Yang Suiyi’s “Karst”; Luka Yang Yuanyuan’s “Chinatown Cha-Cha”; Shen Tao’s “Floating Clouds Obscure the Sun”; Siu Koon-ho’s “True Love, For Once in My Life”; Zhai Yixiang’s “Reflections in the Lake”; Zhou Quan’s “Betwixt and Between”; and Xu Lei’s “Green Wave.” The international-facing Crouching Tigers section includes: Paula Carneiro’s “Savanna and the Mountain” from Uruguay; Matthew Rankin’s award-winning “Universal Language”; India Donaldson’s “Good One”; Hernan Rosselli’s “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed’; Tyler Taormina’s “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point”; Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’ “Sujo”; Boris Lojkine’s “The Story of Souleymane”; Santiago Lozano Alvarez’ “I Saw Three Black Lights”; Carlo Sironi’s “My Summer With Irene”; Ramon Zuercher’s “The Sparrow in the Chimney”; and Neo Sora’s “Happyend.” The extensive retrospective section also includes: Bille August’s 1987 film “Pelle the Conqueror”; Ermanno Olmi’s 1978 “The Tree of Wooden Clogs”; Satyajit Ray’s 1955 “Pather Panchali”; and Abbas Kiarostami’s 1992 “And Life Goes On.”
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