A Special Screening of An Unfished Film by Lou Ye Presented by MINT CFF

MINT Chinese Film Festival Presents: A Special Screening of An Unfinished Film by Lou Ye

📍 BLOC Cinema, London | 📅 May 20, 2025 | 🎟 Pay What You Can | 🎁 Free film merch

Join us for a special screening of An Unfinished Film, the latest work by acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye! Door opens at 14:00

🎓 Free limited seats are now available for currently registered students at Queen Mary University of London and other London universities. A valid student card is required for entry, so please remember to bring yours. General admission is open to the public.

The screening will feature an open talk by Iris Yuke Li, a third-year PhD candidate in Film Studies from Queen Mary University of London, offering insight into the film’s context and Lou Ye’s cinematic legacy.

An Unfinished Film is the latest work by internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye. The story follows a film crew that reunites near Wuhan to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier, only to share the unexpected challenges as cities are placed under lockdown

🏆Festival & Awards
2024 Golden Horse Film Awards
-Best Narrative Feature Film
-Best Director
2024 77th Cannes Film Festival
2024 Toronto International Film Festival
2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam
2025 3rd Mint Chinese Film Festival

💜 Mint in Cinemas: UK Release of An Unfinished Film by Lou Ye is a women-led Chinese cinema release project, presented by MINT Chinese Film Festival (MINT CFF) with the support of the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery.

Guest Speaker: Iris Yunke Li

Iris Yunke Li's research focuses on psychogeography in post-millennial Chinese cinematic cities, drawing from film studies, urban theory, anthropology, and sociology. She explores how contemporary Chinese films represent the sensory and emotional dynamics between urban space and its inhabitants. Her project centres on cities such as Shenzhen, Wuhan, and Hangzhou, which remain underexplored in Western scholarship. She has also organised and participated in several film screening events related to Chinese and urban cinema. She completed her MA for Research at the University of Warwick, and her BA at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, with study experience at National Taiwan University and UC Berkeley.

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