<br />The 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival, which began last week in Cannes, in the south of France, is running until Saturday. <br /><br />This year, there are four Chinese films competing for various awards at the prestigious French festival.<br /><br />Summer of Changsha and Nina Wu are both vying for the Un Certain Regard award, while She Runs is among the contenders for the short film award.<br /><br />The Wild Goose Lake – starring the leading mainland Chinese actors Hu Ge and Liao Fan, as well as the Taiwanese actress Gwei Lun-mei – is hoping to win the prestigious top award, the Palme d’Or.<br /><br />To mark the end of Cannes International Critics’ Week, on Thursday, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, filmed by the young Chinese director, Gu Xiaogang, has been selected as the closing film. <br /><br />Before all the prizewinners have been named and the curtain comes down on this year’s star-studded event, let’s check out five Chinese films that have been widely admired at Cannes in past years.
