{"id":493198,"date":"2026-06-15T02:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/493198\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T02:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:22:08","slug":"kogonadas-zi-lands-at-parallax-films-for-international-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/493198\/","title":{"rendered":"Kogonada’s ‘Zi’ Lands at Parallax Films for International Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cZi,\u201d the latest film from director Kogonada<\/a>, has been picked up by Parallax Films<\/a> for international sales outside North America, it was revealed on the sidelines of the Shanghai International Film Festival<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hong Kong-set feature follows \u201cColumbus\u201d and \u201cAfter Yang\u201d from one of contemporary American independent cinema\u2019s most distinctive voices.<\/p>\n

\n\tShot over three weeks on the streets of Hong Kong, \u201cZi\u201d stars Michelle Mao, Haley Lu Richardson and Jin Ha as three wandering souls caught in a night that ripples across time. The film follows a young woman who, visited by visions of her future self, encounters a stranger whose appearance reshapes the course of her evening \u2013 and possibly her life. Kogonada, who also wrote and edited the film, built the project around Hong Kong\u2019s particular relationship with memory and movement, taking three days to identify a geography the team could navigate largely on foot.<\/p>\n

\n\tProduction was structured along radically independent lines. The seven core collaborators \u2013 Kogonada, producer Chung An, producer Christopher Radcliff, producer-cinematographer Benjamin Loeb, and actor-producers Richardson, Mao and Jin Ha \u2013 collectively owned the project, splitting responsibilities and working without outside financing. The script evolved day by day on location, with scenes sometimes conceived in the moment, and the team held themselves to a discipline of one take per day.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cZi\u201d drew strong notices at its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and subsequently screened at MoMI\u2019s First Look Film Festival in New York. Reviewing the film for Variety<\/a>, Guy Lodge wrote: \u201c\u2018Zi\u2019 thrums with the oceanic rush of traffic, the patter and chatter of pedestrians, the delicate assertions of nature and weather against a wall of man-made noise \u2013 all jostling for our ears\u2019 attention with Kogonada\u2019s typically elegant musical selections.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cZi\u201d is a co-production between the U.S. and Hong Kong, shot in English, Cantonese and Mandarin on a combination of digital and 16mm. The film is dedicated to the late composer Sakamoto Ryuichi, whose experimental late-period music Kogonada drew on throughout the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cZi,\u201d the latest film from director Kogonada, has been picked up by Parallax Films for international sales outside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,25536,227370,226146],"class_list":["post-493198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kogonada","tag-parallax-films","tag-shanghai-international-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}