SCREEN DIALOGUES: CHINA, SINOCINEMA AND THE PACIFIC MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (IFF) – VLADIVOSTOK 2019, RUSSIA

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Author(s): Andronika Martonova
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62635/hex3-zyet
Language: Bulgarian
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Issue: 1/6/2021
Page Range: 251-274
No. of Pages: 24
Keywords: Festival Studies; sinophone cinema; director`s styles; 6th generation filmmakers, social criticism; China; Russia; Far East film distributions; NETPAC jury.
Summary/Abstract: This study reviews Chinese-language cinema in the 17th edition of the Pacific Meridian International Film Festival (PMIFF) in Vladivostok, Russia in 2019. The text discusses the festival’s role in contemporary culture through the Cinema Festival Studies methodology. Adopting a comparative approach and using a parallel theoretical toolbox, the author outlines the main parameters of the large-scale portrait of the Asian cinema on the world screens. All Chinese-language titles in the festival program in Vladivostok are briefly analyzed. The main focus is on the input of the Sixth-Generation directors from mainland China and their socially-engaged themes in feature and documentary cinema shown at PMIFF. Leading trends and authors of independent Chinese animation are also commented on.
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