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Director Alan Zhang wasn’t entirely convinced that her first film would find an audience in China, but it has — and more — at the 17th edition of the FIRST International Film Festival. This annual indie cinema love-in — set way up near the Tibetan Plateau — almost guarantees a full house for every screening, […]
The 2023 edition of the festival saw 98 films screened across the event's nine-day run, including 27 features and 71 shorts among them.
In the end, it was always going to come down to those youngsters. China’s FIRST International Film Festival, which has now 17 editions, prided itself on providing a platform on which the county’s next generation of filmmakers can reveal their talent. Fittingly, then, the event is attended by a predominantly young audience. They travel in […]
Filmmaker Alan Zhang won the First Frame Competition at the FIRST Film Fest for her film 'This Woman.'
SETU graduate Seán Hughes has won a coveted Irish language film award of €1,000 for his documentary ‘An Cnoc’ at the Fastnet Film Festival.