PARALLAX Films team will attend Cannes with fresh titles from China, online and in person! Let’s create the dynamic vibe of the film market as it was during the pre-pandemic time.
Parallax’s Upcoming Titles
Growing Apart
China | 2022 | 90 min | In Post-Production
Debut Feature, Female, One-Child Policy
Shanghai International Film Festival SIFF Project
China | 2022 | 90 min | In Post-Production
Debut Feature, Female, One-Child Policy
Shanghai International Film Festival SIFF Project
This film depicts the fate of ordinary people in the aftermath of family planning by placing the camera on youth in modern China. During thirty-five years of implementation of the one-child policy in China, it imprinted several generations with cruelty. The side effect is notably marked by the patriarchal ideology, more sacrifice of women, who become the victim and accomplices of the era…
Clap Your Hand
China | 2022 | 110 min | In Post-Production
Debut Feature, Female, Poverty, Family
Hainan Island International Film Festival H!Action Project Market
Qiaoqiao’s daughter suffers from brittle bone disease, a rare disease that is impossible to cure and will make her a ‘porcelain doll’ her entire life. Qiaoqiao sacrifices her own career to take care of her daughter, leaving her husband working alone in the factory in the city. As a migrant worker from a low social class, she finds herself stuck with trivial matters, and her life is going further away from what she has imagined.
Vagrant Bepop
China | 2022 | 110 min | In Post-Production
Second Feature
2022 The Hongkong Asian Film Financing Forum – WIP Project
China | 2022 | 110 min | In Post-Production
Second Feature
2022 The Hongkong Asian Film Financing Forum – WIP Project
In the winter, space and time unfold in parallel in a small cafe. Seven men and women of different backgrounds meet and part from each other.
About the Director:
WANG Xide’s first feature A Chat (2021) was selected to Vancouver International Film Festival, Cairo International Film Festival, and many other festivals.
Gods Are Watching
China | 2022 | 100 min | In Post-Production
Second Feature, Religion, Family
China | 2022 | 100 min | In Post-Production
Second Feature, Religion, Family
In Quanzhou, a historic city where diverse faiths live in harmony, a pious old woman wavers three times in her faith in gods. When faith collapses, a dramatic story begins.
About the Director:
Yesir is known for his crossover careers, while focusing primarily on fashion design. His first feature, Koali & Rice, was selected in Moscow, Filmfest Munchen and Pingyao Film Festival.
Parallax’s Current Titles
Journey to the West
China | 2021 | 112 min |
Comic, Adventure, UFO, Debut Feature
China | 2021 | 112 min |
Comic, Adventure, UFO, Debut Feature
One UFO sighting after another proves false. He has to beg for money to keep his space-exploration magazine afloat. There are no messages in the TV static. Nevertheless, Tang Zhijun continues to believe in alien life forms and heads to the mountainous southwest of China, to investigate after watching a mysterious online video. He is accompanied by a drunk, a girl with insomnia, and a cynical staffer. For Tang, the moment of truth comes when they meet a young poet in a village, who says he is in contact with aliens.
A New Old Play
Hong Kong – France | 2021 | 179 min
Chinese History, Opera, Politics
Qiu Jiongjiong’s visually magnificent new film is a unique hybrid of fiction, historical reminiscence, and experimental theatre. Its overview of China from the 1930s to the 1980s is filtered through Qiu Yu, a Sichuan opera ‘clown’ based on the director’s own famous grandfather. As Qiu Yu negotiates his entry into Hades with two comic sidekicks, his departing soul reviews his childhood, his performances, family tragedies, and political perils.
This film of unparalleled aesthetic and political courage takes place in modestly spectacular visual settings. These images set the scene for a constantly shifting acting style that embraces absurdism, political melodrama, comic vaudeville, and ritual tableaux.
