"Above the Cloud of Doubt" poster
905 Movie Network News The "Focus on the Future" unit of the 12th Beijing International Film Festival will officially open on August 13, 2022. The "Future Focus" unit established in , the 4th Beijing International Film Festival in 2014, adheres to the purpose of "encouraging film innovation spirit and stimulating the creative vitality of film art; discovering and launching new films, capturing the trends and trends of the future of international films, displaying the rich and diverse cultural connotations of film art, and enhancing cooperation and exchanges among young filmmakers from all over the world", and collects excellent films of different themes, types and styles from young filmmakers from all over the world.
"Focus on the Future" focuses on the debut of international young filmmakers or the second feature film, encouraging innovation and diversity of films, and ultimately achieving the integration of innovation into the Beijing Film Festival and even the film industry around the world. You can associate it with Cannes "a kind of attention", Venice "horizon", Berlin "new generation" and is a unit that "focuses only on the movie itself". Here, you can not only see the most cutting-edge, excellent and personalized film works, but also see what young filmmakers from all over the world are thinking, exploring, and expressing. They are passionate, surging, and full of tension, injecting new generations of power into world movies and shine.
was shortlisted for the "Future Focus" unit this year, from 13 countries and regions around the world, and finally stood out from nearly 600 registered videos. A total of 14 films participated in the screening, including works from France, Italy, Turkey , Argentina , Mexico, Czech , Peru , Slovenia , Colombia, Japan, the United States and other countries, as well as the highly-anticipated new Chinese films "The Space Exploration Editorial Department" and "Hometown Alien". Each shortlisted work is full of surprises. Let’s first listen to the creative thoughts of all the new directors.
Director Adam Kolerman Lubansky
I want to find the root of people's fear of the unknown through "Above the Cloud of Suspicion". The film is based on the belief that people are essentially kind, and their wrong thoughts, actions and actions all come from blind kindness. Based on this, we need to understand and empathize with everyone’s perspectives, especially we need to understand their ideas without prejudice or ridicule. This is what I want to express in this movie.
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Director Mattevis Lusar
So far, "The Story of the Brass Band" is the work I have personally done the most. I have been on different tours with the band for years because my wife is part of the band and I am always fascinated by how everyone forgets their daily worries and enjoys it in the band. What happened on these tours is like an eternal secret that no one would realize. I want to explore this limited carefree and fun in this movie through different characters and real-life orchestras. I am addicted to exploring the team energy inside the band.
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Director Alwande Dashtalayi
"Absent Director" I created tries to make high-quality art movies in a different way. “If we have ideas, we will act and make it happen together”, so I invited my company members and drama students to be actors together. Although, we could have made this movie with a bigger budget with the Iranian movie stars, I wanted to make this movie a rebellious attempt, so I created the movie.
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Director Victor Cheka
"What the Future Looks" is a Peruvian science fiction movie. This movie tells everyone about the reconstruction of a father-son relationship through the manufacturing process of a mysterious machine. Theo's father, Louis, was an electrician and inventor.Because no one has seen rain in this city, he is building a machine that can generate storms, and Theo is his assistant. Meanwhile, a group of young criminal gangs live together in the city, and Theo chose to join them.
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Director Arcadi Palme-Atis
The protagonist of this movie Oliverio was 13 years old and had some unexpected changes in his family. At first, he just wanted to escape. So, he sat on a recliner by the pool, and Oliverio thought there was no reason to leave the recliner. However, life wanders around him, constantly revealing past secrets, and constantly raising new challenges to him. By letting the protagonist experience these things, Oliverio also realizes that truth cannot be ignored at any time, which is what I want to express most as a director.
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Director Chaeer Bokut
009 I went through a difficult period. This story is very similar to the story of the movie, and other members of my family also suffered from serious illnesses. During that time, I raised questions about the generation gap, our attitude to death, and bureaucracy in the healthcare system. I tried to build a story about a serious illness a father is experiencing, which is interpreted as a transition of power in a family, from the father to his children. What makes Defi special is that she goes through this transformation in a way that is too young, quick and radical. has various transitional rituals in life, such as graduation, work and wedding, but no ceremony has given the torch of the father's aging to celebrate his old age to his children. This transition is quite quiet and sad. I chose disease and death as the sub-themes to strengthen the power struggle between father and daughter. I don't believe that waiting for death can free us from our responsibility to the dying. It only gives us an excuse to believe that it is the result of a natural process, not the result of our choice. I believe this is social despair, which is why I tell this story.
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Director Andre Zuliani
"Girl Don't Cry" is a growth story with a road movie style. The film aims to balance comedy, mysterious adventures, and a more reflective approach, tends toward magical realist expressions. My initial idea was to explore this upbringing story and take her out of ordinary backgrounds such as (city, friends, first love, conflicts at school and at home). So, we decided to take the very young protagonist Alex, throw her on the road and let her drive an old camper twice the age to travel with Mia, who is a Romanian girl with a very opposite personality and background to Alex. The film tries to escape to the north with them step by step. Over the years, my extensive experience as a first and second assistant director has allowed me to understand many places across the country, from Catania to Talvicio, from the most remote places to the most frequently visited places, and even the least developed places. All these places and people I encountered left me with something that I will never forget. This also made me realize firsthand the world around me, as well as the various scenery and all kinds of people that make up this country. And that's exactly what I want to convey in this movie: the attraction and amazement of the unknown, and the fulfillment of the inner world brought by "discovery".
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Director Mathieu Roze
For many years, I have been on vacation with my friends every summer vacation in a remote place in the middle of the Mediterranean . We remember each other, drank together, and stared blankly together. Everyone is trying to get along with relationships or live alone. People wander in thoughts full of desire and boredom. The Earth is autobiography, and there are many volcanoes on this planet that are still erupting, but we forget all of this and focus on ourselves.One summer, when I read "H Talquinia's Pony " by Margaret Duras, I was very shocked. One of the characters in her books was like me and my friends! When my son introduced me to some happy and melancholy Italian music, I found the tone of the film I wanted to do.
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Directors Anna Laura Monserrat and Navel Sneck
"Soul Observer" is a Latin American science fiction feature film that reflects the limitations of today's scientific knowledge structure. The film features women, with a romantic comedy and goes deep into academia, exploring the protagonist’s attempt to prove the existence of a life energy. Valeria is a young female scientist who tries to prove that there is a typical biological energy that was previously unknown. In the process, she had to fight against the rigid belief system in the scientific world dominated by males. The story tells the story of an older scientist who underestimates her research and discoveries in an attempt to ruin her. A photographer helped Valeria; they will work together to prove the existence of unknown energy. Anna Laura Monserrat's directorial debut, she received her PhD in biology from the University of Buenos Aires and became familiar with the female struggle in academia. The video was created based on this.
"Rust" poster
Director Juan Sebastian Mesa
I spent my childhood in a small coffee-growing village in the Andes. In my memory, I always wandered around my aunt's coffee plantation. In those years, people celebrated the arrival of a bumper harvest, and life in the village always revolved around farming. Children will come out of school and pick coffee with their parents, and people will come from all over the place to find jobs. I left the country and hadn't returned to my village for several years. When I came back, my aunt had sold the farm and moved to the city. I walked around the village and I noticed that most of the population was children and the elderly. Most young people immigrate to cities in order to find better opportunities. This movie is a look back on my childhood. This is a story about peasant identity, and I try to use it to capture a kind of pain, a countryside that refuses to disappear.
filming this movie not only represents re-understanding these meaningful characters and locations, but also a huge challenge. I try to portray the daily life here and in the process I understand that daily life itself is the biggest obstacle. In this contradiction, we spent five weeks shooting in different areas southwest of Antioquia. Rain, landslides, sunshine and soil all remind us of the perseverance and rigor that we need as a farmer. "Rust" is not a love story, but a story about various misunderstandings and failures. I am interested in capturing the conflict between the countryside and the city that will be gazed by people who have never left the city, anxiously awaiting reunion with the difficult-to-retrospective past. Nostalgia is perhaps the most common feeling in the film. Sorrow for distance, for those who leave, for those who are going to have and never have.
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Director Kato Takuya
This film shows the process of becoming an adult through the conflict between the heroine and her boyfriend, the existence of his ex-girlfriend, and the casual dialogue with college friends... Directed by new director Takuya Kato, this film depicts a shaky daily life, focusing on the transformation process of a girl growing into a woman, telling the sweet and sad love and the individual's self-contradictory, allowing this love film that brings reality to the screen to pierce the hearts of the audience in one fell swoop. This is also a movie about a girl growing up into a woman.
"Editorial of Space Exploration" poster
Director Kong Dashan
This film is very important, just like in front of a donkey, there is a carrot that can drive it to run continuously.However, staring at carrots is the pain of not getting what you want. Pulling away carrots is also the endless nothingness of chaos. Fortunately, there are always some people who are in an endless direction and decide to start a fruitless adventure.
"Hometown Strange Guest" poster
"Hometown Strange Guest" grew from the soil I experienced in my life. I was hospitalized for 13 months due to illness and traveled in a wheelchair. When facing life and death challenges, what I think is actually a recollection and reflection on the emotional past. During the communication with my loved ones, I was surprised to find that my memories about the past were very different from their memories.
Director Li Songming
The same thing, some people remember the sadness in good weather, while others remember the kindness in bad weather, just like the Tai Chi diagram, there is black in white, and white in black, but it is difficult to distinguish right from wrong, and it is difficult to distinguish true or false. I wanted to make the gap in memory into a movie, so I came up with "The Strange Guest in Hometown". "The Strange Guest in Hometown" is like a wild fruit in the deep mountains, not ostentatious, but has a unique taste.
"Real Humans in New York" poster
This movie was completed by me before the epidemic. In a way, filming this movie helped me grow up more like a “woman”, a “filmmaker”, a “complete person”, and whatever those words mean to you, I think you can see this in this movie. This is just a small part of life. I don't have the funds to do some massive production, but I want to do something substantial. So I used a very small budget and came up with a way to get it done. What I have are friends (I begged some of them to be actors and drivers), I also drew a lot of inspiration during the NYU week, plus I have a free camera. I have watched a lot of "Murder" and "Nagging Movies", which are a type that makes me love and hate, and I think I can join the list. I really like those movies and I think they are both comforting and inspiring. But I always think, “Why is everyone in the movie white?” That’s not the world I’m related to, nor is it the world I’m really interested in in my daily life. I have a strong desire to showcase the daily and details of a young woman of color, who is usually not the focus of a slut, independent film. This movie was a growing experience for me.
Director Kit Zahar
I don't think I will continue to shoot movies based on real-life experiences, because I don't think what happened to me is the most worth exploring. I want to think more deeply about the characters that I haven’t encountered but are truly born out of my imagination, and of course maybe these characters are just subtle inspiration from those who have entered or left my life. But I am very proud of the work I have created and I am really honored to premiere my first feature film at Locarno International Film Festival . The film spent only about $10,000 in total, thanks to equipment generously donated by Rooster Films. It features a diverse cast and consists primarily of non-actors who capture the realities and nuances that I don’t often have in movies. I believe that if anything, Real Humans in New York proves how far the work, performance and narrative can go in the unruly and joyful filmmaking process.
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This movie is the first feature film directed after collaborating with Kurosawa Kiyoshi " Wife of the Spy " (2020) and collaborating with Hamaguchi Ryusuke "Happy Time" (2015). Lila Kawamura, one of the heroines who plays Jun in Happy Hour, starred in the film "Three Times to Determine", in which Lila Kawamura plays a mentally problematic woman who wants to raise a child. Despite similarities in the cast and shooting location, the two films have different textures.
Director Yeyuan-situ
The 12th Beijing International Film Festival "Focus on the Future" unit will be held from August 13 to 18, 2022."Focus on the Future" has always adhered to its position as the first launch site of the film journey, supported young filmmakers, and selected new works. Every year, new works from all over the world gather here to communicate with movies. Every dialogue becomes a wave of impacting the art of film, conveying a new voice to the world.
The "Focus on the Future" unit of the 12th Beijing International Film Festival specially invited Chinese director Ning Ying to serve as the chairman of the international jury of the "Focus on the Future" unit of the 12th Beijing International Film Festival, and Malaysia director Chen Cuimei and Estonian director Marty Held as the jury judges.
The three world-renowned film directors will select seven honors: "Most Attention Video", "Most Attention Director", "Most Attention Screenwriter", "Most Attention Actress", "Most Attention Actor", "Most Attention Art Contribution", and "The Jury Specially mentioned films". The selection results will be grandly announced at the "Most Attention to the Future" unit honor ceremony of the 12th Beijing International Film Festival and the A.R.T. Young Filmmaker Night held on August 18, 2022. The "Focus on the Future" unit of the 12th Beijing International Film Festival, share this youth feast with you!
