Jaipur. Jaipur International Film Festival is going to take place in the pink winter of PINK CITY. This is going to be the 12th edition of Jaipur International Film Festival [JIFF], which has established its special identity and place around the world. It is no less than good news for cine lovers to know that the Jaipur International Film Festival [JIFF], organized by the Jaipur International Film Festival Trust and Aryan Rose Foundation, will be inaugurated at INOX Cinema Hall, GT Central on 17th to 21st January 2020.
Jaipur International Film Festival is popularly known for the fact that films from countries around the world are screened here. It will be delighting for cinema lovers to know that many films from China will be screened at JIFF 2020.
Screening of Chinese Films –In The Mud | Nagging | The Joker | Feeling to Tell | Mosaic Portrait | Ridiculous Scholar | Heavy Craving | The Knot | Prohibit Return | Unstoppable | Bloody Daisy and Sun Rises from the East Pole are going to be special during JIFF 2020.
In the Mud is a Short Fiction Film directed by Dominic Yeh. This story is about the corruption of the government and a common phenomenon of ignorance in rural area in China in the early 21st century. China began enforcing cremation laws around 2000. However, there was one village in which the cremation laws had not been introduced.
One day, a county police officer and his superior came to this village and investigate. They discovered that the whole village was superstitious. There was a middle-aged carpenter in the anti-feudal village that lived on making coffins. As the cremation laws were issued, his life became dull. All he wished for was to be buried not cremated after he died. He used villagers’ ignorance to kill the goat which was worshiped by the villagers so that he satisfied his own ignorance. Then he ended up buried alive. In the end, according to the laws, the body of the goat was dug out and burned, when the villagers all wept at its funeral.
Directed by Shang Gao, Nagging is a Short – Fiction Film. The film asserts about a Grand Ma, who is a devout Buddhist, chanting Buddhist sutras is her spiritual sustenance, besides, she devotes herself to taking care of her grandson Binbin.
As parents work outside the home for a long time without accompanying Binbin, he lacks the care of his parents and his character became distorted and rebellious. He indulged himself in games all day. One day, Binbin’s father called to tell his grandmother that he couldn’t come home for the weekend due to busy work. Binbin was used to this, he was indifferent, continued to indulge in games. But in the phone conversation between grandma and father, Binbin suddenly heard a word from Grand Ma; he was suddenly enlightened and had an epiphany. He thought he had found a way to make his parents never leave him and spend all day with him, so he put down his game and ran into the bedroom. What could be that way?
Feelings to Tell is a Feature Fiction Film, directed by Wen Li. The film is about Jiang, a young painter and finds himself in a Taogu village where he meets a mute girl, Jiu’er and her foster father Old Bai who believed firmly in ancient Xiangchu gods.
As an observer and participant of the dream, the veneration they showed to the gods deeply touched Jiang. When Jiang witnessed the deep affection from his grandfather showed to his grandmother, he felt more puzzled over the fact that his parents had torn the last veil of hypocrisy and wished to get rid of the perplexities of real life. For the second time when Jiang entered into Taogu Mountain and re-acquainted with Old Bai and Jiu’er, he found that this was a mystic domain of reversed time.
Sun Rises from the East Pole is a Feature Fiction Film directed by Phenoix Dong. The film is about a common girl Yueyan Zhu, who disappears just a day before the wedding. Her future husband is a celebrity that every girl wants to marry. In such a situation, why is Yueyan disappeared?
However, this turn in the marriage also gets covered in the headlines. At the same time, the mother of celebrity Zixuan finds that both are legally married several days before the wedding ceremony. She wants both of them to get divorced so that Zixuan’s property will be protected. Now she assigns the job to the lawyer to get to the bottom of Zixuan and Yueyan’s relationship.
Mosaic Portrait is a Chinese feature fiction film, directed by JHAI Yixiang. The film is the story of a migrant worker Xu, who suddenly one day learns about the pregnancy of his 14-year-old daughter Ying. He tries to find out through Ying’s school and local administration but seeks no justice. Ying also charges against one of his teachers, but the administration saves him.
Ying, on the other hand, goes through the tough time of pregnancy. After the birth of the child, she leaves the city, where her past can not bother her. But will she be relieved? Or will she ever hear her inner voice?
