These movies won over audiences and judges at China’s biggest movie festival for young filmmakers
For the past 12 years, the city of Xining in western China’s Qinghai province has welcomed young directors, scriptwriters, and movie lovers each July to bask in the best the country’s young filmmakers have to offer. The FIRST International Film Festival, which prides itself on offering a platform for youth in China’s film industry, not only screens directors’ debuts and early works but also provides them the opportunity to meet investors from the industry. B for Busy, a film that made 200 million yuan at the box office after its general release in 2021, debuted at FIRST in 2020.
Hayley Zhao is an English editor and writer at The World of Chinese. Born and raised in Beijing, Hayley is a multimedia journalist with experience in podcast production. You can find her binging TV shows and stand-up comedy at home when she’s not working.
