What’s on TIFF 2021

“Run, Tiger Run!” is an animated film which will be exhibited at Toronto International Film Festival this year. The movie is created by Soular Animation Studios. This film is selected for the market screening of the Toronto Film Festival and it is also participated in the China Film Industry Exhibition. It tells a story about how a boy named Tiger overcomes all kinds of difficulties to complete the adventure side by side with Master Yang. In the movie, Tiger is full of admiration with Master Yang since he always feels unafraid for all of the hardships in order to get succeed. Therefore, he wants to be a hero like Master Yang as well by using his own efforts.

While conducting a raid to arrest a drug lord, the police encounter a team of masked thugs. In a stunning act of sabotage, the thugs steal the drugs and murder the police officers on the scene. Arriving late, Inspector Bong(Donnie YEN)is devastated to see the brutal aftermath of the carnage. After investigating overnight, Bong discovers that the cop killers are led by Ngo(Nicholas TSE),a former fellow cop. Behind Ngo’s scar is a tragic story of a police force rising star who is forced into a life of crime, and the man who11pushed Ngo into crime was none other than Bong. As the two men’s fates are entangled again, it’s time to settle the score once and for all…

The film uses Chinese poetic film aesthetics to tell the story of a military action rich in revolutionary loyalty in 1935, turning cruelty into poetry, and participating in a life to death with a sense of mission.

Shanghai, 1921. The concession was thriving and tensions were rising. A group of passionate young people, with an average age of 28, came from all over the country to meet in Shanghai, broke the monitoring and tracking of international entities, founded the Communist Party of China, and wrote a new chapter in the history of China.

“Cliff Walkers” is Zhang Yimou’s first spy film.

Set in Manchukuo in the 1930s, the film tells the story of four Communist agents who return to China after receiving training in the Soviet Union. Together they embarked on a secret mission code-named “Utrennya”.

Among the Chinese Film Industry Exhibition at 11st Toronto International Film Festival, there is a film called “You Jia”, it The first Chinese film based on the close interpersonal relationship, filial piety and brotherhood of the Chinese family. It tells a love story: the protagonist is the only son of the family, he has to face the plight of the family, he decides to take care of his mother who has been in a vegetative state and his father is seriously ill. He try his best to support his family, and after losing all hope and courage, he is able to support his family, and he finds his love, also his mother wakes up.

The Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF) was founded in 2011. Guided by the principle of “Sharing the screen, shaping the future”, the Beijing International Film Festival has experienced a strong start, leap-forward development, international appearance and all-round upgrading process, and formed a unique positioning and style of “master, mass and market”. The Beijing International Film Festival continues to improve in terms of guest level, popularity of entries, degree of project incubation and promotion, universality of film market transaction factors, attention to film forums, master classes and industry maintenance, etc. As a major platform for international exchanges, a barometer of the film market, a new star in the incubator and a new cultural brand, BJIFF has become the most influential annual cultural event in Beijing, playing an irreplaceable role in promoting the development of China’s film industry.

The 11th Beijing International Film Festival will meet the Chinese people’s demand for films, enhance its global influence, enter a new stage of high-quality development, provide a “Beijing solution”, and set an example for holding international film festivals and exhibitions in the global epidemic prevention and control.

“Do I deserve to have love in this city?” This may be the self-doubt of every ‘drifter’. A traffic accident lets Wang Xiyue to fall into unanticipated ‘love at first sight’.He Na who is a professional elite used to have the attitude towards freedom of love gradually changes. The city, which had been a battlefield for their survival, suddenly becomes more complicated… The love with the lie is in jeopardy, the happiness under the name of a friend is fleeting, two choices of “deep love”, will their answers be the same as you?

This story follows a 15-year-old boy Mo who lost his father at a young age. Mo accidentally unlocked an alternate universe created by his father. Much to Mo’s pleasant surprise, his father is still alive here.

A racing tournament is on. Mo’s dream of racing with his father is fulfilled. The thrilling journey stretches across volcanoes and dives underwater, pushing Mo to overcome numerous obstacles.

It was even more exciting for him to find out that it is possible to bring dad back to the real world if he can help him win the game. Everything seemed so perfect until he realized that it is all a scheme, and bringing dad back might put the real world in danger. How will Mo make his final decision?

The father who has been reluctant to live in the city suddenly took the initiative to visit his children. Although his daughter Lan Xiaozai was surprised and felt strange about this situation, she was overjoyed. She wishes to take this great opportunity to mediate and repair the years of estrangement between her father and her elder brother. However, the unexpected illness of her father has messed up the once warm reunion. During the days when her father was hospitalized, the siblings gradually penetrated into the father’s inner world and the unknown past. The hidden story was filled with guilt, resentment, dedication, and love. These contained elements were unexpected by the siblings. Can the father turn the crisis back into peace? Can the father and the son clear up their previous suspicions? What is the truth that almost caused the permanent trauma?