Interview With "Resurrection" Filmmaker Bi Gan

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

"Resurrection" is a science fiction drama film written and directed by Bi Gan. It follows Miss Shu (Shu Qi) in a future where most of humanity has lost the capacity to dream, who discovers that one inhuman creature (Jackson Yee) is still able to experience them. She enters the monster's dreams, using her ability to perceive illusions to determine the truth in its visions of Chinese history. The film is structured into six chapters, each corresponding to one of the six senses recognized in Buddhist thought: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and mind. The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prix Spécial. Bi Gan was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about his work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which will open in theaters on December 12th from Janus Films. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast and this is my interview of the director and writer for Resurrection Be Gone.
0:07.0	What man you're going to open?
0:09.0	No more.
0:13.0	What's...
0:16.0	What's one one can do?
0:19.0	Two people can't do. Two people just do not. What thing one can do?
0:22.6	Two people just do it's not going to.
0:26.6	Hello everyone and welcome to the Next Best Picture podcast
0:30.2	where I have the honor and the privilege of speaking with the director behind Resurrection, Be Gone.
0:37.3	Thank you so much, sir, for joining us here today.
0:40.1	Hello, hello.
0:43.9	Hello. Hello.
0:46.0	I was very lucky to see this film at the Cannes Film Festival
0:49.6	where it had its world premiere,
0:51.4	and I described it to people as a transcendent movie experience.
0:56.0	It's not something that I get to experience all that often, where I feel like I'm having
1:01.1	an out-of-body moment.
1:03.1	I could feel myself levitating through these separate stories.
1:08.1	And I think in many ways, the film is evoking that similar feeling that we have
1:13.0	when we dream. Can you tell me a bit about where the idea itself initially came from
1:21.1	that you wanted to tell this story of resurrecting these different periods of cinema.
1:28.3	So he had, in time that in the show-in, when he
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