Guangzhou (China), July 5 (Ians) China on Wednesday announced their final 23-player squad for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Six veterans on the list, including Wang Shanshan, Wu Haiyan and Wang Shuang, have played at two World Cups. Three more players in the squad featured at the previous World Cup in France in 2019, while the remaining 14 players will be making the first appearance at women’s football’s showpiece event.
The Steel Roses have set a goal of reaching the quarterfinals at the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, which starts on July 20, a Xinhua report said.
At the 2019 World Cup in France, China were knocked out in the round of 16. “This time, we are certainly looking to make our target higher since this gives us more motivation,” said head coach Shui Qingxia.
The reigning Asian champions have been allocated into Group D, alongside England, Denmark and Haiti,...
Six veterans on the list, including Wang Shanshan, Wu Haiyan and Wang Shuang, have played at two World Cups. Three more players in the squad featured at the previous World Cup in France in 2019, while the remaining 14 players will be making the first appearance at women’s football’s showpiece event.
The Steel Roses have set a goal of reaching the quarterfinals at the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, which starts on July 20, a Xinhua report said.
At the 2019 World Cup in France, China were knocked out in the round of 16. “This time, we are certainly looking to make our target higher since this gives us more motivation,” said head coach Shui Qingxia.
The reigning Asian champions have been allocated into Group D, alongside England, Denmark and Haiti,...
- 7/10/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
by Federica Giampaolo
Mother-daughter relationships are complex and diverse, depending on society and culture, but cinema plays a major role in embodying the key aspects and feelings globally shared. Especially where family is deeply ingrained, like in Chinese culture, their bond is portrayed as a vital aspect of their life. The biggest clash concerns the lack of balance between traditional values and modern beliefs, but their mutual, unconditional love and shared trauma hold them together. Despite the challenges, some may continue to rely on and support each other through thick and thin. For them, their roles as mothers and daughters are essential parts of their identity, even when they don't want them to be.
But the Chinese culture has strict norms and expectations for women, and these expectations can often lead to conflict and tension not only between two different generations but within same generations also. The dynamics between these women are,...
Mother-daughter relationships are complex and diverse, depending on society and culture, but cinema plays a major role in embodying the key aspects and feelings globally shared. Especially where family is deeply ingrained, like in Chinese culture, their bond is portrayed as a vital aspect of their life. The biggest clash concerns the lack of balance between traditional values and modern beliefs, but their mutual, unconditional love and shared trauma hold them together. Despite the challenges, some may continue to rely on and support each other through thick and thin. For them, their roles as mothers and daughters are essential parts of their identity, even when they don't want them to be.
But the Chinese culture has strict norms and expectations for women, and these expectations can often lead to conflict and tension not only between two different generations but within same generations also. The dynamics between these women are,...
- 5/31/2023
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
The 25th edition marks a return in-person after being cancelled last year.
Han Yan’s Love Never Ends is set to open the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff), which has also revealed the nominations for its Golden Goblet Awards.
The romance drama is adapted from a cartoon of the same name created by Kang Full. Ni Dahong, Kara Wai, Tony Leung Ka-Fai and Cecilia Yip play two elderly couples who show it is never too late to love.
Director Han previously directed 2015’s Go Away Mr. Tumor and 2020’s A Little Red Flower. Love Never Ends is set for...
Han Yan’s Love Never Ends is set to open the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff), which has also revealed the nominations for its Golden Goblet Awards.
The romance drama is adapted from a cartoon of the same name created by Kang Full. Ni Dahong, Kara Wai, Tony Leung Ka-Fai and Cecilia Yip play two elderly couples who show it is never too late to love.
Director Han previously directed 2015’s Go Away Mr. Tumor and 2020’s A Little Red Flower. Love Never Ends is set for...
- 5/30/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff) has unveiled the major competition selections for its 25th edition (June 9-18), which will be the first to be held in a fully physical format with international guests since before the pandemic.
The festival’s Golden Goblet Awards comprises five sections – Main Competition, Asian New Talent, Animation Film, Documentary Film and Short Film. Winners will be announced at a ceremony in the Shanghai Grand Theater on June 17.
Siff’s main competition will screen 12 films, including Mom, Is That You?!, from Japanese veteran filmmaker Yoji Yamada; European titles including Muyeres, from Spanish director Marta Lallana, and The Chapel, from Belgium’s Dominique Deruddere; Indian director Haobam Paban Kumar’s Joseph’s Son; and three Chinese titles – Liu Jiayin’s All Ears, Johnathan Li’s Dust To Dust and Chen Shizhong’s Good Autumn, Mommy.
Poland’s Jerzy Skolimowski is heading the jury for the main competition,...
The festival’s Golden Goblet Awards comprises five sections – Main Competition, Asian New Talent, Animation Film, Documentary Film and Short Film. Winners will be announced at a ceremony in the Shanghai Grand Theater on June 17.
Siff’s main competition will screen 12 films, including Mom, Is That You?!, from Japanese veteran filmmaker Yoji Yamada; European titles including Muyeres, from Spanish director Marta Lallana, and The Chapel, from Belgium’s Dominique Deruddere; Indian director Haobam Paban Kumar’s Joseph’s Son; and three Chinese titles – Liu Jiayin’s All Ears, Johnathan Li’s Dust To Dust and Chen Shizhong’s Good Autumn, Mommy.
Poland’s Jerzy Skolimowski is heading the jury for the main competition,...
- 5/29/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Family dramas have been used repeatedly in cinema to highlight generational gaps, in one of the most common, and frequently most intriguing “tendencies” of non-mainstream cinema. Documentarist turned filmmaker Yang Lina presents a movie in that fashion, by bringing together three generations of Chinese women whose relationships are mostly dominated by clash and tension.
“Spring Tide” is screening at Helsinki Cine Aasia
Guo Jianbo is a journalist specializing in social news, who, as the intro scene highlights, frequently deals with scandals. Her attitude, however, also brings her trouble, since her articles are not exactly of the popular type the audience wants, as a former classmate who is now her higher up repeatedly states. Jianbo is also the mother of a young daughter, Wanting, whom she raises alone, with the help of her mother, as her husband was killed in an accident. The mother, Ji Minglan, helps out in the local community after retirement,...
“Spring Tide” is screening at Helsinki Cine Aasia
Guo Jianbo is a journalist specializing in social news, who, as the intro scene highlights, frequently deals with scandals. Her attitude, however, also brings her trouble, since her articles are not exactly of the popular type the audience wants, as a former classmate who is now her higher up repeatedly states. Jianbo is also the mother of a young daughter, Wanting, whom she raises alone, with the help of her mother, as her husband was killed in an accident. The mother, Ji Minglan, helps out in the local community after retirement,...
- 5/7/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Celebrating its 10th anniversary the Helsinki Cine Aasia festival will once again present a selection of the latest films from East and South-East Asia. Along with better known film countries like Korea and Japan, the program also includes films from countries like the Philippines and Cambodia. Many of the festival’s films have been seen at international festivals and have received awards. The opening film is Anatomy of Time (2021) from Thailand, and altogether the program includes 20 films from eight different countries.
Familiar filmmakers
Japanese film director Ogigami Naoko’s newest film Riverside Mukolitta comes to Helsinki Cine Aasia in May. Ogigami became well known to the Finnish audiences with her film Kamome shokudō (2006) which was shot in a restaurant at Punavuori, Helsinki where the story was also set. Ogigami has since become known for the unique characters in her stories. Her latest visit to Finland was in 2019 during the retrospective...
Familiar filmmakers
Japanese film director Ogigami Naoko’s newest film Riverside Mukolitta comes to Helsinki Cine Aasia in May. Ogigami became well known to the Finnish audiences with her film Kamome shokudō (2006) which was shot in a restaurant at Punavuori, Helsinki where the story was also set. Ogigami has since become known for the unique characters in her stories. Her latest visit to Finland was in 2019 during the retrospective...
- 4/19/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The 15th edition of the Five Flavours Asian Film Festival (Aff) announced the Grand Prix winner and an Honourable Mention for its New Asian Cinema competition on November 24, 2021.
This year’s award winning films were selected by the International People’s Jury 2021 which included members from Finland, the Netherlands, Poland and Italy.
Grand Prix
The People’s Jury has selected Spring Tide directed by Yang Lina as the winner of this year’s New Asian Cinema section. Spring Tide is a universal depiction of generational trauma shown from a female perspective that subtly highlights the unhealthy dynamics of family relationships. With her strong directorial vision, the filmmaker combines dreamlike elements with a look at China’s past, present and future, which elevates the traditional genre of moral drama to a higher level. The authenticity of Spring Tide can prove to be a soothing and uplifting experience for everyone.
Courtesy of...
This year’s award winning films were selected by the International People’s Jury 2021 which included members from Finland, the Netherlands, Poland and Italy.
Grand Prix
The People’s Jury has selected Spring Tide directed by Yang Lina as the winner of this year’s New Asian Cinema section. Spring Tide is a universal depiction of generational trauma shown from a female perspective that subtly highlights the unhealthy dynamics of family relationships. With her strong directorial vision, the filmmaker combines dreamlike elements with a look at China’s past, present and future, which elevates the traditional genre of moral drama to a higher level. The authenticity of Spring Tide can prove to be a soothing and uplifting experience for everyone.
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- 11/26/2021
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
I consider movie as the next best thing to travel in getting to know a place, its culture and people. There is so much of China to be seen in the news and the only medium which could take you one step closer is cinema. I should say I was amply rewarded by director Yang Lina’s “Spring Tide”. It got to a point where I started falling in love with the people of a foreign land. I was mesmerised and couldn’t pry my eyes away from the screen for a minute.
“Spring Tide” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Ji Minglan (Elaine jin), her daughter Guo Jinbao (Hao Lei) and granddaughter Guo Wanting (Junxi Qu) all live in a small apartment. Minglan has not been able to forgive her divorced husband from thirty years ago. Jinbao has good memories of her father and attributes the affairs...
“Spring Tide” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Ji Minglan (Elaine jin), her daughter Guo Jinbao (Hao Lei) and granddaughter Guo Wanting (Junxi Qu) all live in a small apartment. Minglan has not been able to forgive her divorced husband from thirty years ago. Jinbao has good memories of her father and attributes the affairs...
- 11/24/2021
- by Arun Krishnan
- AsianMoviePulse
Zhang Yimou’s censored film “One Second” apparently now finds itself in the Chinese government’s good books: it has been given pride of place as the opener at the government-run Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival.
The film was initially set to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2019. But its treatment of the still sensitive Cultural revolution period is believed to have been its undoing. It was abruptly pulled from the festival due to “technical reasons,” a common euphemism for censorship, in one of the highest profile cases of Chinese state intervention seen abroad in recent years.
Now, after apparent reshoots and, at long last, government approvals for a Nov. 27 commercial theatrical release, it is set to debut at the festival in Xiamen city on Nov. 25.
Zhang’s premiere likely seeks to add glitz and a bit of legitimacy to the Roosters, which critics have historically...
The film was initially set to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2019. But its treatment of the still sensitive Cultural revolution period is believed to have been its undoing. It was abruptly pulled from the festival due to “technical reasons,” a common euphemism for censorship, in one of the highest profile cases of Chinese state intervention seen abroad in recent years.
Now, after apparent reshoots and, at long last, government approvals for a Nov. 27 commercial theatrical release, it is set to debut at the festival in Xiamen city on Nov. 25.
Zhang’s premiere likely seeks to add glitz and a bit of legitimacy to the Roosters, which critics have historically...
- 11/11/2020
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Chinese production firm Aim Media has licensed the North American rights of director Yang Lina’s “Spring Tide” to distributor China Lion. Smart Cinema, the digital venture by former Wanda executive Jack Gao, has also bought the rights to screen the film on its platform in South Korea.
Yang is an independent documentary maker turned feature film director who is making a trilogy of films about women. “Spring Tide” is the second in that series. It tells a story of family dysfunction in which a woman must deal with the competing demands of her daughter and mother as they all live together in a small apartment. Featuring an all-female cast and starring Hao Lei, it debuted in competition at the Shanghai International Film Festival last year.
Aim Media had intended for the film to screen theatrically sometime between March and May, but when the coronavirus shuttered cinemas, it moved the title straight to streaming.
Yang is an independent documentary maker turned feature film director who is making a trilogy of films about women. “Spring Tide” is the second in that series. It tells a story of family dysfunction in which a woman must deal with the competing demands of her daughter and mother as they all live together in a small apartment. Featuring an all-female cast and starring Hao Lei, it debuted in competition at the Shanghai International Film Festival last year.
Aim Media had intended for the film to screen theatrically sometime between March and May, but when the coronavirus shuttered cinemas, it moved the title straight to streaming.
- 7/14/2020
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Wip initiative will run simultaneously with the Haf main programme (August 26-28) and Filmart Online (August 26-29).
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf) has announced the 22 projects, including ten narrative features and 12 documentaries, which have been selected for the Work-in-Progress (Wip) section of this year’s Haf.
The Wip initiative will run simultaneously with the Haf main programme (August 26-28) and Filmart Online (August 26-29). Both events were postponed from March due to the Covid-19 pandemic and were recently forced to move online as travel restrictions are still in place across the region and in Hong Kong.
Haf will...
The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf) has announced the 22 projects, including ten narrative features and 12 documentaries, which have been selected for the Work-in-Progress (Wip) section of this year’s Haf.
The Wip initiative will run simultaneously with the Haf main programme (August 26-28) and Filmart Online (August 26-29). Both events were postponed from March due to the Covid-19 pandemic and were recently forced to move online as travel restrictions are still in place across the region and in Hong Kong.
Haf will...
- 6/23/2020
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
I consider movie as the next best thing to travel in getting to know a place, its culture and people. There is so much of China to be seen in the news and the only medium which could take you one step closer is cinema. I should say I was amply rewarded by director Yang Lina’s “Spring Tide”. It got to a point where I started falling in love with the people of a foreign land. I was mesmerised and couldn’t pry my eyes away from the screen for a minute.
“Spring Tide” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Ji Minglan (Elaine jin), her daughter Guo Jinbao (Hao Lei) and granddaughter Guo Wanting (Junxi Qu) all live in a small apartment. Minglan has not been able to forgive her divorced husband from thirty years ago. Jinbao has good memories of her father and attributes the affairs she...
“Spring Tide” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Ji Minglan (Elaine jin), her daughter Guo Jinbao (Hao Lei) and granddaughter Guo Wanting (Junxi Qu) all live in a small apartment. Minglan has not been able to forgive her divorced husband from thirty years ago. Jinbao has good memories of her father and attributes the affairs she...
- 3/13/2020
- by Arun Krishnan
- AsianMoviePulse
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