Shanghai film fete offers clues about upcoming releases

As for the other films expected to hit Chinese cinemas, many will focus on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

For Tencent Pictures, that means the TV series The Founding of Republic and the feature-length film, Me and My Motherland.

The movie brings together seven top directors, including Chen Kaige, Ning Hao, Guan Hu and Xue Xiaolu-and is an anthology of seven short tales, which respectively explore how an ordinary person feels at a historic moment.

Producer Huang Jianxin says that filming for six of the seven stories has been concluded, except for the one directed by Ning Hao stars renowned actor Ge You.

Recalling that he visited the film set of director Zhang Yibai recently, Huang says that Zhang's story explores what a worker in the science and technology sector felt the day when China successfully tested its first atomic bomb in October 1964.