Horizons / Kuang ye shi dai / China, France 2025
Every great artist has his own unmistakable signature style. China’s brilliant filmmaker Gan Bi works on the boundary between dream and reality, with cinephile specters from the depths of the subconscious that reimbue the cinematic medium with its forgotten transcendental charm. In his latest opus, he travels through the history of cinema, making five halts along the way: opium-drenched expressionism, a rainy film noir, an Oriental comedy, a metaphysical heist, and above all a hallucinogenic vampire karaoke at the turn of the millennium. Each chapter works with one of the senses, but they all reflect the gripping imagination of the sixth art, cinema, which gives physical form to the unseen – to something that needs to be experienced rather than understood.
Vojtěch Kočárník
160 min / Color, DCP
Director Gan Bi
/ Screenplay Bi Gan, Zhai Xiaohui
/ Dir. of Photography Dong Jingsong
/ Music M83
/ Sound Li Danfeng
/ Editor Bi Gan, Bai Xue
/ Art Director Liu Qiang, Tu Nan
/ Producer Shan Zuolong
/ Production Dangmai FIlms Co., Ltd.
/ Coproduction Shanghai Huace Film Co. Ltd., CG Cinema France
/ Cast Jackson Yee, Shu Qi, Mark Chao, Li Gengxi, Huang Jue , Chen Yongzhong
/ Sales Les Films du Losange
Gan Bi. Selected filmography: Jingang Jing (2012, short), Kaili blues (Lu bian ye can, 2015), Long Day's Journey Into Night (Di qiu zui hou de ye wan, 2018), A Short Story (Po sui tai yang zhi xin, 2022, short), Resurrection (Kuang ye shi dai, 2025).
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