"Saturday Film" originally debuted in competition at Venice in 2019 and was set to premiere in China soon after as the opening film of the country's highly politicized government-run Golden Rooster Film Festival. It was yanked without warning from the line-up the night before due to unspecified "internal production problems" and replaced by a low-budget documentary about traditional bamboo flutes.
The inauspicious exit from the Golden Rooster made"Saturday Fiction" the fifth Chinese film to run into last-minute trouble at a 2019 festival. Nevertheless, the movie had indeed passed censorship and received its "dragon seal" of approval, and had been scheduled for Chinese theatrical release in early December, though that outing was quietly cancelled.
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