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China Returns to Cannes in a Big Way

After a partial comeback in 2023, Chinese cinema is returning to this year's 77th Cannes Film Festival in a major way. While unveiling his 2024 lineup in April, festival chief Thierry Frémaux noted that "it's been three or four years that China has been less present in world cinema," but he emphasized that his team now can enjoy "the satisfaction of having China — a major cinema country — back in the selection."

China's grueling passage through the pandemic, which kept the country's borders closed until January 2023, was by far the biggest obstacle the Chinese film industry faced in participating in the West's greatest celebrations of cinema. Beijing's simultaneous tightening of regulatory oversight of the film sector during that period resulted in the production of fewer artistically adventurous films, as well as greater difficulty for Chinese distributors in getting permission to import and release Western movies of any category in the country.

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