A few days ago, I went to Xiamen, watched some movies, and participated in many activities.
As for the reason, I believe everyone knows, of course, the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival.
This year, the Golden Rooster Award officially settled in Xiamen, and it has also changed from one year in the past two years to one year.
In Xiamen, in addition to the star-studded Golden Rooster Award Ceremony that everyone is familiar with. Actually, there is another activity that I am more interested in doing.
That is with the Golden Rooster Awards - Golden Rooster International Film Festival.
Unlike the Golden Rooster Awards, the Golden Rooster International Film Festival is a unit that focuses on international films in parallel with the Golden Rooster Awards. In addition to Chinese films, the screening of films from other countries is also a useful supplement to the Golden Rooster Award.
Because I am one of the professional judges of the Golden Rooster International Film Festival this year. Therefore, not only did I participate in the judging of various awards, but I also watched a lot of screening films by the way.
I also had some understanding of the Golden Rooster Award and their screening unit before, and I was more clear about what the situation was. Therefore, there will be more expectations for this year's Golden Rooster International Film Festival.
For example, this year's Golden Rooster International Film Festival, although there are still many regrets and deficiencies, but there have been some good changes.
Anyway, we can give him more opportunities! Continue to wait and see, I hope that the Golden Rooster International Film Festival will have more growth in the future.
Including the final list of winners this year, it is also a choice given by me and several other professional judges, as well as more than a dozen public judges from Douban and Zhihu, after synthesizing the quality and level of the overall screening film.
Probably, try to truly reflect the overall level and condition of the film.
The list of winners is as follows:
The most popular foreign actress in the audience
Samal Yeslyamova – The Little One (Russia)
The judges believe that the female lead actresses make emotional variations under the traditional linear narrative, gaze at each other with the audience in a cramped space, create a three-dimensional character that is fully integrated into the plot, have no performance traces, and quietly build pain that cannot be expressed in words through visual realism.
Andrea Respolog and Riseborough – Nancy (USA)
The judges believed that a family fusion of pseudo-kinship carried different scars. The actress's gloomy, cool and powerful performance reflects the warm reverie that still exists in the protagonist's heart, and the loneliness that can never surpass the essence of human nature can never be overcome.
The most popular foreign actor in the audience
Tsurubei Shofukutei – Locked Sick House (Japan)
The judges believe that in the gloomy and low but full of healing film rhythm, the male lead actor uses accurate role positioning and superb acting skills to dialectically interpret the multiple relationships between "beauty" and "ugliness", and creates a spiritual sanctuary island with a very human and glorious performance, leading the audience to find the sunshine in the darkest slit with Japanese warmth.
Junior Bejar – Painted Boy (Peru, Germany, Norway)
The judges believed that in the dialectic of the warm and wild Andean civilization and conservative social environment, the boy's ignorant youthful impulses and misty ambiguous feelings came to life in the clever interpretation of the male protagonist; At the end of the film, the protagonist's handmade father's painted sculpture seems to carry the spirit of the dead man back and complete the unfinished journey with him.
The most popular foreign director in the audience
Sergei Devatsvoy Sergei Dvortsevoy – The Little One (Russia)
The judges argued that the director used shaky handheld photography to force women, immigrants and ideologies. Visual realism, combined with psychological ambient sound, shows the director's highly personal style of audiovisual construction. The search for the gaps in human survival, the euphemism of emotions and the euphemism of low emotions, composed a scar poem facing life.
Alvaro Delgado Aparicio – Painted Boy (Peru, Germany, Norway)
The judges believed that the director's restrained and streamlined lens language, half obscure and half accessible video style, implicitly questioned the patriarchal establishment and traditional morality of conservative society. When the most beautiful color sculpture art between father and son becomes the eternal bondage of emotion, it also becomes the home and trust of a soul. The director's highly expressive narrative blank space leaves a sufficient buffer for the viewer's imagination and plot explosion.
The most popular foreign film by the audience
"Locked Sick House" – Hideyuki Hirayama (Japan)
The judges believed that this is a cruel fable depicting the marginalized people of The Japanese spirit, and it is also a warm fairy tale that glimpses the redemption and brilliance of human nature. The movie "Closed Sick House" inherits the beauty of violence and material sorrow of Japanese films, allowing the audience to immerse themselves in the love and hate in the story, in a narrative logic of cruelty and warmth, whipping the injustice of violent things in the name of hypocrisy, and soothing the hearts of the audience with a kind of great love tenderness.
Romi's Salon – Mischa Kamp (New Zealand, Germany)
The judges believed that we were all children who accompanied our grandmother to grow old. Affection may always be the last line of defense in our emotional highland, it is tough and fragile, timeless and new. The movie "Romi's Salon" completes a transmission of love between grandchildren with a properly beautiful and deeply rooted performance, which is the reconciliation between grandma and the obsession of her old age, and it is also the return of her child's heart.
All in all, this year is just the beginning, and it has already allowed us to see some good changes. In the next few years, we can also give this Golden Rooster International Film Festival more patience and attention.
After all, they also invited a professional international curatorial and film invitation team. Trying to bring more good movies to Xiamen and more audiences who pay attention to the Golden Rooster International Film Festival. I hope that at next year's Golden Rooster International Film Festival, we can see more good and popular international films participating.
Let movie fans have more good movies to watch.
That's all that matters.