At the age of 96, Chang Feng won the Golden Jubilee Award for Best Actor and the Castle of Dreams won best film

The 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival held the Golden Jubilee Award on the evening of June 23, and the red carpet outside the Shanghai Grand Theatre once again shone with stars. Representatives of the Golden Jubilee Awards film crew, members of the Golden Jubilee Jury, and filmmakers and guests from all over the world have appeared on the stage. These include Tom Hiddleston, a British actor known to Chinese audiences as "Shakespeare", Mila Jovovich, an actor who became famous in the film world for Resident Evil, and Masami Nagasawa, a Japanese actor. During the ceremony as a guest of honor, Tom also thanked the Chinese audience for giving him the nickname "Jitter Sen" and said that he "liked it very much".

This year, a total of 2555 works from all over the world registered to compete in the four units of this year's Golden Jubilee Award, and 15 works were successfully shortlisted for the final selection of the main competition unit.

The Jury of the Golden Jubilee Awards, led by Turkish director Nuri Bige Ceylon, attended the ceremony and revealed the final ownership of the Various Golden Jubilee Awards.

In the end, the Iranian film "Castle of Dreams" became the biggest winner of the night, winning three awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. The Georgian film Between the Breaths won the Grand Jury Prize and the Best Actress Award. It is worth mentioning that this year's Shanghai International Film Festival gave birth to the "double yolk egg" of the Best Actor Award, and the 96-year-old Taiwanese actor Chang Feng also won this honor with "Homesickness".

Castle of Dreams poster

The Iranian film Castle of Dreams won three awards as the biggest winner

One of the most popular films at this year's Festival, "If I Can Ride on the Waves with You," won best animation. The best documentary was won by the documentary "Bridge of Time", which documents "Don Quixote in a Group of Cinematic Worlds".

The biggest winner of this year's Golden Jue is the Iranian movie "Castle of Dreams". In addition to winning the blockbuster Best Picture award, director Ressa Mirkalimi won Best Director for her mastery of every detail. The male protagonist, Hamed Sabery Bedard, with his imaginative performance in the film and unexpected details, shared the "Best Actor Award" with Chang Feng.

Based on the lives of ordinary Iranians, Castle of Dreams focuses on a family conflict— the story of a father and child who are absent for three years to rebuild their relationship. In terms of expression, the film borrows the shell of a road movie, in which the father drives home with two children after the death of his ex-wife, and along the way meets his lover, his ex-wife's employer, his ex-wife's brother and the police.

The jury gave the director and the film itself a fairly high rating, saying that "the film's treatment of details is very profound and precise, and it has not lost its coherence and authenticity from beginning to end." Even though the film takes place in a small space and a limited time, the truth of life is revealed in it."

This is the first time that director Ressa Mirkalimi has participated in the Shanghai International Film Festival, he said that at present, many outstanding Asian filmmakers are recognized and affirmed through European film festivals, Asia has an ancient civilization and a long history, is the birthplace of world culture, Asia needs such an influential platform as the Shanghai International Film Festival for filmmakers from all over the world to exchange and cooperate closely.

The Georgian film "Between breaths" was also very successful, with the "Jury Award" and the "Best Actress Award" in the pocket. Salome Demelia plays Irina, a woman who is released from prison but unable to really start a new life. The jury gave the actress Salome Demelia an evaluation of "outstanding performance".

After the premiere of the film, she said that the experience of playing this role "changed my life forever", "I can feel the intolerant treatment that Irina suffered, and I hope that in the future I can make some changes to better understand some social phenomena, because after playing Irina, I deeply feel that intolerance is the worst thing in society." After winning the trophy on the spot, she choked up at one point, "Don't ask me questions, this is a day that changed my life." ”

At the age of 96, Chang Feng's comeback performance of "reluctantly making it difficult" was commended

This year's Film Festival awarded a trophy for best actor to Chang Feng, which should not be surprising. Because as the first competition film screened this year, Chang Feng's natural, deep and restrained performance earned enough tears from the audience. The 96-year-old Chang Feng contributed a very delicate and moving performance in the film. Although he was already faltering when he took the stage to receive the award, his performance in the film is completely untraceable and profound.

In "Homesickness", Chang Feng plays a Taiwanese veteran who thinks that he "can't go back to his hometown", and can only linger in the declining "red envelope field" to talk about homesickness. In the face of the last years, Jiang Sheng, played by Chang Feng, stubbornly arranged his "posthumous affairs" one by one, and reconciled with the love and hate in his long life. "The unexpected performance is unforgettable" is the jury's compliment to the veteran actor.

Chang Feng was born in Northeast China in 1923 and went to Taiwan in 1949, and his own experience has a high echo with jiang sheng's life in the film. This also became the basis for his grasp of the role.

Qin Hailu was a director for the first time, and she had long been interested in Chang Feng to play this role. Chang Feng revealed that when Qin Hailu first looked for him, he refused. Because his physical condition is indeed not suitable for acting. But after a few years of Qin Hailu finished writing the script, he loved the role of Jiang Sheng and the whole story of "Homesickness", so after consulting with his family, he decided to "make a comeback" after "reluctantly" and this movie will become his "sealed work".

For mainland audiences, the character who is most familiar with Chang Feng is "Zhang Sanfeng" in Ma Jingtao's 1994 version of "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon". In fact, Chang Feng has already won the Golden Horse Award lifetime achievement award in 2008, and when he was young, he also collected the best male lead and male supporting actor of the Golden Horse Award early. Now 96 years old, as the "oldest film emperor in the Chinese film industry", he is the next city, and "Homesickness" is also the first film starring Chang Feng in more than 20 years.

In his acceptance speech, Chang Feng said, "I am older, my memory is not good, my speech is also long-winded, today's Shanghai International Film Festival and I have a tacit understanding, but also witnessed history, such a big age, it is not easy to receive the award here, especially thank you for the judges." At the award ceremony, the audience stood up to pay tribute to the performing artist. The host agreed with Chang Feng at the scene, "Come back to Shanghai in three years, we will celebrate your 100th birthday!" ”

At the award ceremony, the three micro-films of "The Birth of a Film", "A Filmmaker's Dream to the Film", and "The Future Has Come and Pass on the Torch" ran through the whole process, just as the theme of this year's Golden Jubilee Awards Ceremony was "The Era of Video Recording, the Golden Jule Behind the Scenes is King", in order to pay high respect to the dedication of countless film behind-the-scenes workers, inspire Chinese filmmakers not to forget their original intentions, and create more high-quality film works for the audience.

After the award ceremony, the award-winning film "Castle of Dreams" was screened on the spot, which also became the closing film of the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival.

List of Winners:

Best Picture

Castle of Dreams (Iran)

Grand Jury Prize

Between Breaths (Georgia/Russia/Sweden)

Best Director

Resa Mir karimi, Castle of Dreams (Iran)

Best Actor

Chang Feng, "Hometown Heart" (China)

Hamed Saberi Bedard, Castle of Dreams (Iran)

Best Actress

Salome Demelia, Between Breaths (Georgia/Russia/Sweden)

Best Screenplay

Alexander Longkin and Pavel Longin, "Brotherhood" (Russia)

Best Cinematography

Jack Pollock, Spring Tide (China)

Artistic Contribution Award

"Under the Light of The Wooden Birthday" (India)

Best Cartoon

"If I Could Ride the Waves with You" (Japan)

Best Documentary

Bridges of Time (Latvia/Lithuania/Estonia)

Best Live Action Short Film

"Nowhere to Put" (China)

Best Animated Short Film

The Wheel of Terror (Spain)