““Film Records The Profound Suffering that War Brings to Mankind.” That is how the Beijing International Film Festival Explained a focus it has ulveiled on war and peace in a special “Film and Peace” Program that It is Feating During it. It Will Showcase “12 Masterpieces” depicting “the tragedy of”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
It Will Showcase “12 Masterpieces” Depicting “The Tragedy of War” on the Occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the End of World War II this year to “ImMerse Ourselves in Hostery,”. “Filmmakers at Home and Abroad Use Light and Shadow to Remember The Cruelty and Endless Pain of War and Use Memory, Emotion and Shocking Reality to Preserve Recollection and Sound.
Among the Movies Screening at the Chinese Fest Will Be the Winner of the Firmst-Aver Cannes Film Festival in 1946, The Last ChanceA 1945 Movie Directed by Austrian-Swiss Filmmaker Leopold Lindtberg. Also Featured Are Such Classics As Claude Lanzmann’s ShoaTerrence Malick’s The Thin Red Lineand Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar Winner The Zone of Interest.
Many of the Movies Presiented in the Section Are Newly Restored 4k Versions, Account to the Film Festival, Which Runs April 18-26.
Below is a look at the lineup for the beijing “film and peace” lineup.
The Last ChanceLeopold Lindtberg, 1945
“The Film Tells The Story of Two British and American Prisoners of War Escaping from A Concentration Camp and Leading Refugees Out of the Clutches of the Nazis.”
ShoaClaude Lanzmann, 1985
The Legendary Epic Nine-Hour Holocaust Documentary Features Interviews with Survivors, Witnesses and Perpetrators.
All i had was notingnessGuillaume Ribot, 2025
The Making of Shoa and the toll itok on Lanzmann get the Spotlight as ribot revisits outtakes from the Holocaust doc.
The Burmese HarpKon Ichikawa, 1956
This “Rare Masterpiece Among Japanese Anti-War Films,” as the Beijing Fest Calls It, Tells The Story of Japanese Soldiers Who Fough in the Burma Campaign During World War II.
WingsLarisa Shepitko, 1966
“This Film Focuses on the Post-War Life of Retid Female Pilots, Showing The Audence the Long Afterhocks Left in the Hearts of Those Who ExperienCed The War,“ The Beijing Fest Hights.
Cross of IronSam Peckinpah, 1977
James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason and David Warne Star in The Film Which Focuses on the Class Conflict Between an aristocratic prussian officer and a cynicala, Battle-.
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches onKazuo hara, 1987
The doc centers on a 62-year-ed veteran of japan’s wwii Campaign in New Guinea Who Searches for Those Responsible for the Unexplated Deaths of Two Soldiers in his Unit.
The Thin Red LineTerRrence Malick, 1998
The Hollywood Classic Starring the Likes of Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Jim Caviezel, George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Nick Nolte, John C. Reilly, Anhn John Travolol Soldiers in a battle at the guadalcal that is a fight for survival.
DOWNFALLOliver Hirschbiegel, 2004
Bruno Ganz Portrays Adolf Hitler in this Classic About the Final Days in the Nazi Leadership Bunker. It will be screwed in beijing in a reststored 4k Version.
Above the Drowning SeaRené Balcer and Nicola Zavaglia, 2017
On the Eve of World War II, Tens of Thousands of Jewish Refugees Were Traped in Nazi-Kontrolled Vienna. This Documentary Tells The Story of Their Dramatic Escape to Shanghai.
The Zone of InterestJonathan Glazer, 2023
Described by Beijing as A “Highly Experimental Masterpiece” and “Reflection on War,” The Drama About Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Höss and His Family Witr, Crisean Friedel and Sanda. Feature Film Oscar.
The PropagandistLuuk Bouwman, 2024
Using Previoously Unpublished Interviews, Family and Propaganda Films, This Doc Charts The Rise and Fall of Dutch Filmmacher Jan Teunissen Who’s Became The Head of The Dutch Film Department