New Diao Yinan Thriller & Jia Zhangke Road Movie Aiming for Cannes 2027

In the if-true-then-definitely-newsworthy category, as we put all our focus on the upcoming Cannes Film Festival we’re also taking inventory of the films that may line-up next year’s edition and it would appear that two Chinese filmmakers are heading that way. We’ve been tipped via this X account that we have a pair of Sixth Generation auteurs gearing up — one is Night Train (2007), Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014 – read review) and The Wild Goose Lake (2019) filmmaker Diao Yinan who is working on a new crime thriller with Jackson Yee onboard — he was in Bi Gan’s Resurrection). Lensed by cinematographer Dong Jinsong, from what we gather, he’ll then also work on Jia Zhangke‘s next feature — which we figure is the untitled road movie without cars…which follows a journey from China’s northwest to the south. We are working with very little right now but hopefully we’ll get more info on the Croisette next month.