An Unfinished Film
January 2020. A film crew reunites near Wuhan to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier, only to share the unexpected challenges as cities are placed under lockdown. Presented by MINT Chinese Film Festival. Curators’ note: An Unfinished Film, which premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, represents director Lou Ye’s own way of documenting the COVID-19 pandemic. At this moment, when five years have passed since the pandemic broke out, when relevant memories may have faded away, our team wish to encourage a “memory exchange” of the pandemic in the UK by bringing this latest work of Lou Ye to the audience here. Although the film is based on Lou Ye’s experiences in China, we believe that it resonates with memories of people with different nationalities and from different walks of life, no matter when or where the memories were collected. The resonance may relate to pains, sufferings, and anxieties, or to warmth, healing, and fun. Bearing the “differences” and “commonalities” of the memories, the viewing experience of the film will become a journey of sorting and reviewing personal memories of the pandemic, a journey where memories of the director, the curator, and the audience collide, exchange, and fuse. - Yixiang Lin and Wenqi Zhang, MINT CFF Curators Chinese with English subtitlesDramaPT1H51MCTBC2025-04-25Qin Hao
Mao Xiaorui
Qi Xi
Lou Ye
An Unfinished Film"An Unfinished Film"Showtimes
April 25, 5:40 pm
April 27, 12:30 pm
April 28, 5:40 pm
May 2, 3:20 pm
May 3, 5:40 pm
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