Finally, they would have been 22. Thierry Frémaux reportedly received Bi Gan‘s third feature film at the last possible moment and the reason it wasn’t announced during the second wave is because the ever-unpredictable Chinese censors ensured an eleventh-hour type of inclusion. “Resurrection,” is part of 2025 Palme d’Or competition line-up – a first time for the Chinese filmmaker. Les Films du Losange (who repped other eleventh hour inclusions in Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water and Nadav Lapid’s Yes) are the sales company backing this project.
Filmed in parts (beginning back in March of last year) the sci-fi detective tale starring Jackson Yee and Shu Qi (she was the muse of and had the honor of working on Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s very last feature The Assassin). Having blown up the Croisette with his Un Certain Regard selected sophomore feature “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” back in 2018, Charles Gillibert’s CG Cinema returned to the partnership further adding to the need for a Cannes over Lido world premiere unveiling. This tells the story of a woman whose consciousness falls into the “eternal time zone” during a surgical procedure. Trapped in many dreams, she finds an android corpse and tries to wake it up by telling endless stories. The android then wanders within her stories and its senses gradually awaken.
