On October 5th a special pre-opening event to the eleventh edition realized in partnership with Guang Hua Cultures et Media
At 5 pm tomorrow, in the magnificent Aula Magna in Ca’Dolfin, will take place the Chinese Film Festival in Italy, a special pre-opening event of the eleventh edition of the Ca’Foscari Short Film Festival, which will then be held in a widespread form all over the city of Venice, from 6 to 9th October.
Thanks to the novel partnership with Guang Hua Cultures et Media, an important Chinese-language media publishing company in Europe, and with the collaboration of the Cultural Office of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Italy, the Short will present the retrospective “Maestri” to an audience that has already sold out for the event, with the works of two of the most representative Chinese directors of the recent decades: Zhang Yimou and Jia Zhang-ke. In the spectacular, award-winning costume film Shadow, set in the China of the Three Kingdoms, Zhang Yimou focuses on the events of Commander Zi Yu (Deng Chao), dealing with warriors and palace intrigues. The sons of the yellow river (Ash is the Purest White) is the latest masterpiece by Jia Zhang-ke, competing at Cannes in 2018, which follows the development of the complicated love affair between Qiao (Zhao Tao) and the mafia boss Bin (Liao Fan), over seventeen years.
The event will be opened by a video message from the General Director of Guang Hua Cultures et Media for Europe Zhang Xiaobei, followed by the presentation of the films by curator Elena Pollacchi, in the presence of Roberta Novielli, artistic director of the Short and of the Review, and the lawyer Vittorio Siciliani de Cumis, representative of the Guang Hua Cultures et Media group. The “Maestri” retrospective is the fifth edition of the successful Chinese Film Festival in Italy that Guang Hua Cultures et Media has been organizing in Italy since 2016 to offer an important insight into contemporary Chinese cinema. For the occasion, the Short becomes the first stage of a voyage that will then move to some of the most important Italian cities, including Naples, Bologna, Milan and Rome.
