Shanghai SIFF Project  2025: Full Line-Up

Ma’s Infinite Strike Back

SIFF Project, the projects market of Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF, June 13- 22), selected 34 projects across five categories for its 2025 edition. The categories include Genre Projects, New Talent Projects, Co-production Projects, Pre-Production Projects and Works-in-Progress.

Launched in 2007, SIFF Project aims to connect Chinese and Sino-foreign co-production features with potential partners, investors and distributors. The platform has so far held 17 editions that have resulted in more than 100 projects entering into production.

SHANGHAI FILM FESTIVAL SIFF PROJECT 2025:

GENRE PROJECT:

Dog Bite Dog (China)
Director: Cai Kunyu
Screenwriter: Lin Xiao, Wang Hanmo

Ma’s Infinite Strike Back (China) [PICTURED ABOVE]
Director: Ma Kai
Screenwriter: Zhao Tianshuo
Producer: Yang Xiaolai

Help? Help! (China)
Screenwriter: Li Xiaotong, Li Xingyu
Producer: Li Xingyu

Find Your Way (China)
Director: Sofia Wang
Screenwriter: Lilian Zhang
Producer: Aubrey Zheng

Back To Basics (China)
Director: Tang Jiaying
Screenwriter: Chen Mo, Tang Jiaying
Producer: Jing Chen

NEW TALENT PROJECT:

Against The Current (Macau, China)
Director: Cheng Zhengye
Screenwriter: Wang Juncheng

A Perfect Life (China)
Director: Guo Xiaodong
Screenwriter: Xi Longfei

Life Check (China)
Director & Screenwriter: Liang Hai

The Last Firework (China)
Director & Screenwriter: Yoo Zhang
Producer: Ning Xin

Nothing Burns Like The Cold (China)
Director: Sharon Zhou
Screenwriter & Producer: Nini Sun

CO-PRODUCTION PROJECT:

A Winter In Siberia (China, Russia)
Director & Screenwriter: Fan Jiangliu

Sisters (Malaysia, China)
Director: Chong Shun Yuan
Screenwriter: Chong Shun Yuan, Koh Fang Qi, Marcus
Producer: Tong Bing Yu

Chowfan (Love Sunday) (Dominican Republic, China)
Director: Pablo Lozano
Screenwriter: Eduardo Jaar, Pablo Lozano
Producer: Maria Hernandez, Dong Aihui

SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Shanghai International Film Festival 2025

PRE-PRODUCTION PROJECT:

General’s Order (China)
Director & Screenwriter: Cao An
Producer: Cao An

Son Of Jade (China)
Director: Liu Teng
Screenwriter: Liu Cunzai
Producer: Huang Yuntong, Zhang Jian, Wang Sheng

The Bird Chaser (China)
Director: Zeng Zhi
Screenwriter: Zeng Zhi, Ma Xiaohui
Producer: Li Tianyu

Tides Of Beat (China)
Director & Screenwriter: Xiao Qinan

The Journey (China)
Director & Screenwriter: Zhang Shufan
Producer: Bonnie Jia

Wintertime In A Small Town (China)
Director & Screenwriter: Wu Chu, Gao Xiangyu

Wind Waves The Wheat (China)
Director: Li Peiran, Hao Ming
Screenwriter: Hao Ming, Li Peiran

Reborn (China)
Director: Chen Xiaoyu
Screenwriter: Chen Xiaoyu, Lin Hanfang
Producer: Nina Huang Fan, Huang Xing

To Die For (China)
Director & Screenwriter: Wang Yang
Producer: Li Xiaoyuan

Orlo With Karma (China)
Director: Kangdrun
Screenwriter: Kangdrun, Zheng Tao
Producer: Lu Shu, Soramtsering, Zhang Qianqian

So What (China)
Director & Screenwriter: Xu Yiming
Producer: Sheng Yanhong

Heading South (China)
Director: Yuan Yuan
Screenwriter: Yuan Yuan, Bolor Huang
Producer: Wang Jing

WORK IN PROGRESS PROJECT:

Good Drink Pub (China)
Director & Screenwriter: Emetjan Memet
Producer: Derek Zhang
DOP: He Xun

Huadan Rapper Go Go Go (China)
Director: Liu Hongzhi
Screenwriter: Liu Hongzhi, Su Fa
Producer: Ding Wenjian
DOP: Hai Shu (Yang Fan)

The Story Of Xiao Dong (China)
Director & Screenwriter: Zhang Haidong
Producer: Chen Kunyang, Sun Yu
DOP: Yang Kehan

Stranger In The Mountain (China)
Director: Wan Bo
Screenwriter & DOP: Luo Pan
Producer: Li Yixiao

My Parent’s Midlife Crisis (Malaysia, China)
Director: Joey Lee
Screenwriter: Joey Lee, Coxanne Kok
Producer: Joey Lee
DOP: Jordan Chiam

Zoom In, Zoom Out (China)
Director & Screenwriter: Dong Jie
Producer: Cao Shanshan
DOP: Li Zhong

You Are The Light (China)
Director & DOP: Chai Ran
Screenwriter: Chai Ran, Shang Hua
Producer: Liu Xiaowen

The Seed Will Sprout (Shanghai Daughter) (China)
Director & Screenwriter: Agnis Shen
Producer: Xu Ruijing, Liao Yong, Agnis Shen
DOP: Pu Wei

Scholars Under Fire (China)
Director: Gan Xiao’er
Screenwriter: Chen Linxia, Gan Xiao’er
Producer: Li Jing
DOP: Yasser Ruofeng Zhang