Belgian Premiere

An Unfinished Film 一部未完成的电影

Lou Ye

2024

An Unfinished Film is an essential yet incomplete outlet for unprocessed trauma. It affirms but does not disturb. It invokes a hidden memory, but does not enrich it.

Cannes – Special Screening (World Premiere)
Singapore Film Festival - Winner Audience Award
Golden Horse Awards – Best Director, Best Narrative Feature
International Film Festival Rotterdam

January 2020. Director Xiaorui's film crew gathers at a hotel near Wuhan to resume a previously interrupted film production. The shoot is almost complete when rumors of a new virus begin to circulate. Some of the crew manages to get home just in time, but the rest are trapped in the hotel with only their screens for company when a lockdown is imposed.

Sphinx Cinema

Monday 2 March

20:00

107 min

Genre: Drama

Mandarin

Subtitles: English

About the Director

Lou Ye was born to a theatrical family in Shanghai in 1965. He spent his childhood in theatres and studied at Shanghai School of Fine Arts before working as an animator at Shanghai Animation Studio. He graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 1989, majoring in directing. His films have been selected by all the major international festivals (Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Taipei Golden Horse Awards, Chinese Independent Film Festival, Asian Film Awards) and awarded various prizes.

Selected Filmography: Suzhou River (1999), Summer Palace (2006), Saturday Fiction (2019)