In 2009, the Open Doors section is dedicated to Greater China.

Honk Kong:
"ABERDEEN"- PANG Ho-cheung
"ELEVEN FLOWERS" - WANG Xiaoshuai
"LITTLE WINGS" - Emily Tang

Mainland China:
"AN EVERLASTING DAY" - Wanmacaidan
"BLOODSHED" - GUAN Hu
"BUS N°8" - YANG Qing
"DON'T EXPECT PRAISES" - YANG Jin
"FATHER" - ZHANG Lu
"HELP" - LI Ying
"TREE" - HAN Jie
"UFO IN HER EYE" - GUO Xiaolu
"WINTER VACATION" - LI Hongqi

The jury, composed by Vincenzo Bugno and Luciano Barisone for the Locarno Festival and by Walter Ruggle and Martial Knaebel representing the Swiss support fund for production "visions sud est", decided upon the following grants, awarded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) of the Swiss Foreign Ministry:

- One grant for production, worth 50,000 Swiss francs, goes to :

WO SHI YI (ELEVEN FLOWERS) by WANG Xiaoshuai, produced by Isabelle Glachant for Chinese Shadows (Hong Kong)

- Two grants for development, worth 15,000 Swiss Francs each, go to:

GONG LU BA HAO (BUS No.8) directed and produced by YANG Qing (Mainland China)

ZHAN MEI CONG MING (DON'T EXPECT PRAISES) by YANG Jin, produced by Helen Cui for Tianlin Film Production, Beijing (Mainland China)

The Jury decided to present two development grants because of the nature of the projects being mainly at the writing and development stage.

Press Release

The Cinefondation is delighted to continue its partnership with Open Doors at the Festival del film Locarno.

The Festival del film Locarno invites every year the five directors selected by Cinefondation for the Residence in Paris, where they spent 4 months and a half developing their first or second feature film.

Through individual meetings organised by Open Doors, they will have the possibility to meet producers and sales agents interested by their projects.

2009 Selected Projects:

"FEED ME WITH YOUR WORDS" by Martin Turk (Slovenia / Italy)
"NATURE" by Yula Gidron (Israel)
"THE PASSION OF MICHELANGELO" by Esteban Larrain (Chili)
"THE REVENANT" by Andreas Bolm (Germany)
"UP ON THE ROOF" by Rafael Kapelinski (Poland)