Lou Ye
LOU Ye (1965, China) studied film directing in Beijing. He has worked as a producer and assistant director on various productions and has made several short films. In 1994, he made his first feature film, Weekend Lover. In the mid-nineties, he produced Super City, a project of ten full-length films directed by the best of the new Chinese generation. In 2000, he won the VPRO Tiger Award for Suzhou River in Rotterdam. His films were also shown at the Cannes Film Festival, with Spring Fever (2009) premiering at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival and his newest work, An Unfinished Film, at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in the Special Screenings section.
Filmography
Earphone (1989, short), Weekend Lover (1994), Don’t Be Young (1995), Suzhou River (1998), In Shanghai (2001, short doc), Zi hudie/Purple Butterfly (2003), Yihe yuan/Summer Palace (2006), Chun feng chen zui de ye wan/Spring Fever (2009), Love and Bruises (2011), Mystery (2012), Tui Na/Blind Massage (2014), The Shadow Play (2018), Saturday Fiction (2019), An Unfinished Film (2024)
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Lou Ye op IFFR
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An Unfinished Film
Lou Ye | 106' | Singapore | Dutch Premiere
An unfinished film turns into a gripping record of filmmaking under confinement. -
Summer Palace
Lou Ye | 140' | China | None
Intense and romantic relationship drama in which two young Chinese lovers meet, lose and rediscover each other, set against a background of 14 years o -
Suzhou River
Lou Ye | 83' | China | World premiere
Suzhou flows like a artery through Shanghai, a collecting place for filth, poverty and chaos, but also of stories, memories and mysteries. In a restle -
In Shanghai
Lou Ye | 17' | Netherlands | World premiere
Personal portrait of Shanghai; a city with great contrasts between old and new, rich and poor and sweet and dangerous. -
Spring Fever
Lou Ye | 115' | France | None
Impressionist film about a passionate homosexual relationship between the married intellectual Wang Ping and the transvestite Jiang Cheng. After Summe -