Bel Ami

116 minutes | 2024 | Fiction | Mandarin, English | English Subtitles
Canadian Premiere

Content Advisory: This film contains scenes of sexual content, tobacco use

In a frozen town unwilling to stagnate, a middle-aged man meets true love and decides to come out of the closet. A lesbian couple decides to look for a gay man to marry and have a child. Behind their fiery love stories is an absurd drama of identity politics. The ghost of communism often wanders around the lonely souls.

GENG Jun grew up in Heilongjiang, China. Without any film school training, he moved to Beijing and directed many films. He gained more attention with Free and Easy (2016) when it won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award at Sundance Film Festival and received four major nominations at Golden Horse Film Awards including Best Film and Best Director. His Manchurian Tiger (2021) won the top distinction of Golden Goblet Award for Best Feature Film at the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival.