The Shanghai International Film Festival has always attached great importance to the academic and thematic sorting out of film history. On the one hand, through planning special film exhibitions, it has connected works from various important periods in film history. ", "Hollywood Classic Narrative - From Keaton to Hitchcock" in 2017, "Bazin Legacy" in 2018, "Portrait of Asian Contemporary Authors", "Asian Legend and Reality" in 2019 "Salute to Female Pioneers On the other hand, by cooperating with major world-renowned labels, we re-examined the relationship between film creation and production from the perspective of production, and launched such as the 2016 "Zedong 25th Anniversary" and "Future Searchlight", 2020's "Shochiku Film 100th Anniversary", 2021's "Toei 70th Anniversary Release" and other unit reviews.
In 2018, after reorganizing the structure of the film festival, the Shanghai International Film Festival launched the "Special Planning" unit, which incorporated the above two aspects of curatorial practice. This year's "Special Planning" unit is particularly rich. In addition to the released reviews of the three labels "Warner Bros. Pictures Centennial Celebration", "National Geographic Documentary Film Special Planning", and "Toei Animation Time Trace", it also focuses on planning "Chinese Contemporary Art Film Exhibition" unit.
This topic selects a group of Chinese films with high artistic value that have been produced in the past ten years and will be screened during the film festival to showcase the exploration and innovation of Chinese films in film art while the market is developing rapidly. The film festival has tried to sort out four veins in the creation of Chinese art films in recent years, and selected 15 representative films, not only covering the representative works of the sixth generation and Mesozoic directors, but also adding a group of highly recognized feature films by emerging directors.
All films in the "China Contemporary Art Film Exhibition" unit will be screened twice during the festival, one of which will be screened at a fixed point in the Daguang Cinema, which is convenient for fans of art films and scholars interested in film research. Promote discussion, research and attention to Chinese art films. At that time, movie fans can use the ticket stubs of the films in this unit to exchange for a specially made film exhibition brochure at Daguangming Cinema.
At the same time, the offline lecture of the "Truth, Goodness and Beauty in Film and Television" public essay competition jointly organized by the Shanghai International Film and Television Festival Center and the Shanghai Citizens Cultural Festival will also invite the vice chairman of the Shanghai Film Association and the doctoral student of the Shanghai Theater Academy on the afternoon of June 3. Instructor Ishikawa gave a guided lecture in conjunction with this film festival.
In recent years, many creators have tried to absorb nutrients from traditional Chinese aesthetics, and tried to practice Chinese-style reconstruction of film language. "Winter" directed by Xing Jian uses minimalist characters and stories to show the artistic conception of Tang poetry of "a lonely boat with hats and hats, fishing alone in the cold river and snow". A landscape scroll that runs through the entire Yangtze River Basin is laid out; the spatial arrangement of a group of outdoor scenes along the river in "Spring River Plumbing" directed by Gu Xiaogang is as relaxed and natural as the scattered perspective of literati paintings in Song and Yuan Dynasties.
An old man living in Changbai Mountain braved the heavy snow day after day to go fishing with a fish tank. After fishing, he would choose to release the fish. One day, he rescued a little bird in a snowstorm, and the little bird became the old man's playmate, spending time with the lonely old man. When the bird was hungry, he had to kill the fish to feed the bird. At this time, a child broke into the old man's life. This film was selected into the "Focus on Chinese" screening unit of the Shanghai International Film Festival.
Gao Chun, the captain of the cargo ship, keeps going ashore to seek romance while delivering goods along the Yangtze River, but every time he goes ashore, he finds that the woman he meets seems to be the same person, except that she is sometimes gentle and sometimes crazy. Gao Chun was obsessed with her, so he looked for the law of her appearance, and gradually, he found that she seemed to be related to an anonymous poetry collection. The film was shortlisted for the main competition of the Berlin International Film Festival and won the Silver Bear Award for "Outstanding Artistic Achievement".
To meet the Asian Games, Hangzhou is doing various facilities construction. During this period, a family was holding a birthday banquet. Unexpectedly, the old mother suddenly fell ill during the banquet and was finally diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Who will take care of the mother? This made it difficult for the four sons in the family, because their respective families have different troubles. The film was selected for the "Film Critics Week" at the Cannes Film Festival.
The exploration of audio-visual has kept Chinese film art alive, especially the use of surrealism, constantly breaking through the boundaries of traditional film audio-visual techniques and narrative methods. "Roadside Picnic" directed by Bi Gan uses a 45-minute long shot and extraordinary mise-en-scène to make the shot itself a character; "Soul on a Leather Strap" directed by Zhang Yang uses a rare narrative technique to construct three interlaced clues, It refers to three overlapping and interacting time and space; "Crashing to Kill a Sheep" directed by Wanma Caidan tells three stories of two men with the same name, intertwined with each other, blurring reality and dreams; Don't Say Goodbye, Fish Flower Pond flexibly uses forms such as singing, dancing, and comics to imaginatively create surreal scenes in everyday images.
In Kaili City, Guizhou Province, doctor Chen Sheng decided to bring his nephew Wei Wei back after learning that he was in Zhenyuan County. When his old doctor colleague learned that he was going there, he asked him to bring three tokens to his old lover who lived there. Chen Sheng started on the road, and on the way there, he came to a place called "Dangmai". In this place, it seemed that time was not linear, and he walked into a dreamlike time and space. Director Bi Gan once won the Best New Director Award at the Locarno International Film Festival in the contemporary filmmaker category for this film.
While hunting a deer, the hunter Tabe was unfortunately struck by a flash of lightning and died. Fortunately, a Living Buddha saved him. Instructed by the Living Buddha, because he got the sacred dzi beads in the deer body, he wanted to escort the dzi beads to the palm print place of Master Rinpoche. In this regard, he struggled with his inner demons while on the road. This film was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Shanghai International Film Festival Golden Goblet Award and won the Best Cinematography.
Jinba, a truck driver, accidentally ran over and killed a sheep on a desolate road in Tibet. He wanted to take it to salvation. During this time, he met a young man who wanted to hitchhike. During the conversation, he learned that this young man had the same name as himself, and that this trip was to kill the enemy who killed his father 20 years ago. The fates of the two Kimbas were imperceptibly intertwined. The film won the Best Screenplay Award in the Horizon Unit at the Venice Film Festival.
Ye Zi's grandfather passed away, and her grandmother could only live at home alone. After Ye Zi graduated, she returned home to spend her last summer vacation with her grandmother whose memory was gradually fading. At this moment, she found that the family was always harassed by some strange things, sometimes it was a talking bear boy, sometimes it was a spirit who was a "monster" in the fish pond, and sometimes it was the grandpa who thought about it day and night. . The film was shortlisted for the contemporary filmmaker section of the Locarno International Film Festival, and won "A Standpoint" in the main competition of the FIRST Youth Film Festival.
More and more art films adopt the shell of "film noir", "suspense film" and "youth film". The typified development of art films has become an important trend. Director Xin Yukun's first feature film "Heart Labyrinth" unfolds an interlocking story with a multi-line narrative, and became a dark horse that entered theaters at a low cost; Cao Baoping's "Scorching Sun" is based on a murder case Story-driven, presenting a very tense relationship between characters; Director Dong Yue's "The Blizzard Is Coming" uses one rainy story after another to gradually reveal the tragic fate behind a serial murder case; Bai Xue's "Over the Spring" Taking campus themes as the starting point, but completely breaking through the common elements of youth films; "One and Four" directed by Kumi Chengliu shows the attempt of Tibetan-language films in genre films, creating rich and three-dimensional characters in a confined space image.
His son Xiao Zongyao wholeheartedly wants to get rid of the control of his village head father, but he still cannot seek benevolence. One night, his girlfriend Huanhuan invited him to a secluded forest and told him that she was pregnant, Xiao Zongyao couldn't accept it for a while. At this time, another person appeared in the forest. He heard the two talking and asked for a hush money. Xiao Zongyao had a dispute with him. The film was awarded special commendation in the Hong Kong International Film Festival Newcomer Film Competition, and won the Best Feature Feature Film and Best Director at the FIRST Youth Film Festival.
In Xilong, Fujian Province, there was a family massacre seven years ago, and all five people in a villa died tragically. The three suspects are still at large. To this day, these three people have gone to different destinies. One became a taxi driver, one became a heroic police assistant, and the other unexpectedly became a fool. . The film was shortlisted for the main competition of the Shanghai International Film Festival, and won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Director and Best Actor.
In the 1990s, when state-owned factories were laid off, Yu Guowei, the security department, was particularly active in order to enter the system. He had cracked many theft cases in the factory and was known as "Detective Yu". During that time, a series of female serial murders occurred in the town where he lived. The most recent one happened outside their factory. Although the deceased was not a female worker in the factory, Yu Guowei hoped to bring his disciples together to solve the crime. The film was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the Tokyo International Film Festival and won the Best Actor and Best Artistic Contribution.
The 16-year-old girl Peipei is a middle school student. Although she holds a Hong Kong resident identity card, she lives in Shenzhen with her divorced mother. Every morning, she needs to cross the border from Shenzhen to go to school in Hong Kong. In order to travel to Japan with her girlfriends, she worked hard to earn money, but she still couldn't earn money for air tickets. At this moment, she met her best friend's boyfriend, A Hao, and started smuggling with him. The film was shortlisted for the New Generation Youth Unit at the Berlin International Film Festival.
One day in the late 1990s, when a snowstorm was approaching, a policeman who claimed to be chasing poachers suddenly broke into the forest ranger's cabin stationed alone on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. However, the uninvited guest was holding a shotgun. The forest ranger became suspicious of him, but he still helped him find what he needed in the woods. Just as the two let go of their guards, another person broke in. In the post-production stage, the film was shortlisted for the "Project in Progress" of the Shanghai International Film Festival Film Project Venture Capital. After the film was completed, it was shortlisted for the best film in the main competition unit of the 34th Tokyo International Film Festival.
Nostalgia is one of the most frequently touched contents of contemporary art films. Creators are constantly traveling between the city and their homeland, gazing at the gap between the ever-changing modern life and their homeland. "Tallo" directed by Wanma Caidan tells the existential confusion encountered by a Tibetan in contemporary life with minimalist pen and ink; Three deaths and two births in "Goodbye, Paradise" use three images to show the life stories of three generations of women.
Tarlo is an orphan who lives by herding sheep. He has a little braid, so people often call him "little braid". Once, he went to the barber shop for a haircut and met a girl. This was the first time he felt love. He decided to give everything he had for this girl, but when he really gave, what he received was nothing. The film was shortlisted for the horizon unit of the Venice Film Festival.
In the small mountain village of Chongqing in the 1990s, patriarchy was still the traditional concept in the village. The mother of the 12-year-old girl Xiaoxian has given birth to four daughters before, and this time she is pregnant with her fifth child, and she is about to give birth. In the next 7 days, Xiaoxian will face the impermanence of life, and the transition between life and death will be staged in turn in this short period of time. This film was selected into the "Venice Day" unit of the Venice International Film Festival, and won the best film honored by Fei Mu at the Pingyao International Film Festival.
The story is divided into three sections. In the first section, the grandmother tells that after giving birth to her youngest son, she took him to the county town to see a doctor. Unfortunately, the child died young. The miserable grandmother hoped that her daughter would not live like her. In the second paragraph, the girlfriend who used to go to the dance school began to tell her own mental journey. In the last paragraph, the mother who is a teacher tells about her life. The film won the New Wave Award at the Pusan International Film Festival, and won Fei Mu's special honor at the Pingyao International Film Festival.
Welcome to continue to pay attention to us, and grasp the blockbuster list of the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival in 2023 as soon as possible. Tickets for this year's Shanghai Film Festival will be sold on the Tao Piao Piao platform at 12:00 noon on June 2.
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