Madame
Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET
120'
China
P&I Selection 2022
Part of Qiu Jiongjiong’s 'chatterbox' oral history trilogy, this short documentary focuses on current storyteller and ex-cop Huang Songnian. Qiu playfully splices montage cuts between Huang’s wildly entertaining, sometimes very dark stories of intrepid forensic police work (including a super queasy tale of maggots and a body, and another of rural cannibalism), and disruptive yet oddly suitable Sichuan opera excerpts, pigeon portraits, and Qiu’s charming chalk drawings.
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Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET
P&I Selection 2022
Programme IFFR 2022
Qiu Jiongjiong is one of China’s most innovative, critical, and entertaining artists/filmmakers, whose works joyously blur the boundaries between fiction, documentary, and experimental cinema. Intimate memory and national history resonate in Qiu’s baroque rhapsodies of music and design. We present seven of his films including his new masterwork A New Old Play.
Read more about this programmeAvailable on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET
120'
China
P&I Selection 2022
104'
China
P&I Selection 2022
135'
China
P&I Selection 2022