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Emerging Chinese Directors Lead Shanghai Festival’s Asian New Talents Section
An emerging class of Chinese directors take up more than half the places in the Shanghai festival’s Asian New Talents section.
Zeng Zhi, previously a commercials director, puts the focus of his debut feature “Friday, Funfair” on the struggles of a young woman who was abandoned by her husband and is left to take care of her entire family and her sick only daughter. Born and raised in Xinjiang, Lu Da n presents “The Absent,” a story that involves a young woman looking for her father, an accordionist who has long disappeared from home. Zang Lianrong and Xu Ruogu ’s second collaboration, “The Lost Daughter” is an intense drama that sheds light on the impact of China’s now abolished One Child Policy.
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