Diversity is undoubtedly one of the strengths of the festival’s curation, as exemplified by films by Jodie Mack, Zhang Yang, and Jan Bonny.
It achieves an astonishing immediacy by simply allowing the prostration process to play out over and over with minimal aesthetic interference.
Five films into his career, Zhang has emerged as a modern incarnation of the recently deceased Xie Jin.
Zhang Yang’s film knows a thing or two about child-parent dynamics.