{"id":501386,"date":"2026-06-19T19:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/501386\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T19:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T19:48:08","slug":"asian-new-talent-filmmakers-open-up-at-shanghai-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/501386\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian New Talent Filmmakers Open Up at Shanghai Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFilmmakers competing in the Asian New Talent section of the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival<\/a> gathered for a press meeting to discuss the inspirations and methods behind four films, spanning subjects from marginalized communities in the Arab world to human relationships with the natural world.<\/p>\n

\n\tZaid Abu Hamdan, director of the Jordanian entry \u201cBoomah,\u201d said his lead character grew out of real encounters with three women he had met on the streets of Jordan. The film follows an orphaned girl at the bottom of a patriarchal society who works her way toward power while wrestling with family trauma and questions of identity. Producer Ahmad Abu Koush expressed confidence that the film\u2019s emotional core would translate across linguistic and cultural boundaries, arguing that audiences worldwide would recognize the suffering it depicts.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEach of them carried the scars of a difficult childhood, yet beneath their hardened exteriors, they longed for love, for a home, and for someone to care for them,\u201d Abu Hamdan said. \u201cThose contradictions \u2013 the toughness and the tenderness \u2013 are precisely what so many marginalized people share.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Indian film \u201cHunter\u2019s Moon,\u201d directed by Ridham Janve<\/a>, takes a different approach, centering on a hunter who returns to discover his cached prey has been disturbed. Janve, who frequently sets his work in mountain landscapes, described nature in the film as operating like a mirror that alternately flatters and humbles its human subjects. Producer Kartikeya Narayan Singh said the production team extended its environmental concerns to the shoot itself, forgoing plastic materials and running the entire operation on solar power.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso present were the makers of \u201cStrangers in the Mountain\u201d and \u201cHer First Taste,\u201d two Chinese productions that received support from the SIFF Project over the past three years. Director Wan Bo said \u201cStrangers in the Mountain,\u201d a suspense film that opens on a seven-year-old cold case, uses distinct regional dialects to differentiate its characters and draws on the visual grammar of traditional Chinese ink painting through recurring black-and-white sequences.<\/p>\n

\u201cLanguage is inseparable from character, as it is deeply rooted in the process of a character\u2019s growth,\u201d Wan said. \u201cThe environment and geographical context in which each character grows up endow them with a unique and distinctive charm.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHer First Taste,\u201d directed by Gong Yiwen, follows a writing-obsessed girl navigating identity and first love in a campus setting. Gong said she employed a documentary-style technique, asking actors to internalize their lines and then abandon them so their on-set behavior would read as spontaneous.<\/p>\n

\n\tProducer Qian Yini said: \u201cWe devoted significant effort to casting, and the final cast members delivered outstanding performances. This film makes me recall the deep emotional connection with my closest friends, and I hope viewers will experience the same.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filmmakers competing in the Asian New Talent section of the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival gathered for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,230530,226146],"class_list":["post-501386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-ridham-janve","tag-shanghai-international-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501386","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=501386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}