China’s Pingyao International Film Festival (PYIFF) has unveiled its full selection, including the titles for its Crouching Tigers competition, which will screen 11 films including Cannes award winners My Father’s Shadow and The President’s Cake .
The President’s Cake , from Iraq’s Hasan Hadi, won the Camera d’Or at this year’s Cannes film festival, while My Father’s Shadow , directed by Nigeria’s Akinola Davies Jr, received a Camera d’Or Special Mention. Crouching Tigers will also screen Akio Fujimoto’s Lost Land , which won the Special Jury Prize in the Horizons section of this year’s Venice film festival.
Crouching Tigers selects first, second and third films from international directors, while the festival’s Hidden Dragons competition focuses on films from emerging directors