Cover news reporter Yang Fan
On February 10, the 72nd Berlin Film Festival opened. Chinese director Li Ruijun's work "Hidden in the Dust" is the only Chinese-language film shortlisted for this unit and will participate in the Competition for the Golden Bear Award. In addition, Zheng Luxinyuan's documentary "Staggered And Mottled" was shortlisted for the film festival forum, and the 4K restored version of "Suzhou Creek" directed by Lou Ye in 2000 will also be unveiled during the film festival.
The Berlinale is one of the three major international film festivals
The Berlinale is one of the three major film festivals in Europe (Berlin, Cannes, Venice). After moving some of the media and industry participation online last year due to the pandemic, this year's Berlinale is back offline. The berlin film festival opened on February 10 at the Berlin Film Palace, and since then, offline films for media and other professionals have been screened until February 16. From 17 to 20 February, the films exhibited at this year's Berlin Film Festival will be ticketed to the public. The festival will also resume the tradition of walking the red carpet, but the size of the red carpet will be reduced accordingly.
"Hidden in the Dust" is written and directed by Li Ruijun, starring Wu Renlin and Haiqing. According to reports, the film "tells the story of two lonely individuals in the northwest countryside who are abandoned by their respective families, and they are in the cultivation day after day." Wu Renlin and Haiqing show the mental journey of a low-level peasant couple from strange to familiar, from acquaintance to mutual companionship." Li Ruijun's earlier work "Home in a Place with Lush Water and Grass" won the HAF Script Development Award and the Memorial Bo Weida Grand Prize at the 2011 Hong Kong International Film Festival.
"Hidden in the Dust" (courtesy of the film)
Li Ruijun became a Chinese-language director shortlisted for the three major international film festivals with this film, and he was shortlisted for the Horizon unit of the Venice International Film Festival in 2012 with "Tell Them, I Took the White Crane", and in 2017, he was shortlisted for the Cannes International Film Festival with "Passing the Future".
A total of 18 films from 15 countries were shortlisted for the main competition section of this year's Berlin Film Festival, of which 17 were world premieres and 7 were directed by female directors. The festival's international jury is chaired by Indian-American filmmaker Nate Shyamalan. The opening film of the festival is the new film "Peter von Kant" by the famous French director François Oujong.
Poster for this year's Berlin Film Festival
In addition, this year's Berlin Film Festival will strictly implement the "2G plus" epidemic prevention policy of the city of Berlin, and in addition to completing vaccination, on-site participants must wear masks and undergo regular COVID-19 testing.
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