Nandu News Reporter Fu Yuanyuan On April 29, the 13th Beijing International Film Festival, directed by the National Film Administration, sponsored by the Central Radio and Television Station and the Beijing Municipal People's Government, came to a successful conclusion. During the 8-day period, under the call of the Beijing Film Festival, filmmakers from all over the world jointly painted a beautiful picture of light and shadow building dreams, so that the light of film can be passed on forever.
With its international, authoritative and mass characteristics, this Beijing Film Festival has injected new vitality and momentum into the development of global films, and has become an important medium for China to participate in the process of globalization and exert international influence, becoming an annual grand festival, adding charm to Beijing, a world historical and cultural city and the only "double Olympic city" in the world.
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The "Temple of Heaven Award" builds a bridge of international communication
Demonstrate Chinese cultural self-confidence
The 13th Beijing International Film Festival invites outstanding filmmakers from all over the world, gathers world film masterpieces, promotes exchanges and mutual learning among countries, and becomes an important platform for international cultural exchanges.
The main competition unit of this year's Beijing Film Festival "Temple of Heaven Award" received 1488 film applications from 93 countries and regions, of which foreign films accounted for more than 80%, showing a good trend of rapid growth in quantity, diversified style types and high standards of works. The international jury of the "Temple of Heaven Award" composed of seven heavyweight Chinese and foreign guests has a strong lineup, leading the industry trend with a professional perspective.
At the award ceremony, the top ten awards of the "Temple of Heaven Award" were fully announced.
Singaporean directors Tan Cheol Yee and Mei Ting were the first to announce the best supporting actress as Montserrat Marannon who starred in "Totem"; Israeli directors Nadav Lapid and Wang Baoqiang announced that Tian Zhuangzhuang won the best supporting actor for "Light of the White Tower". Wang Baoqiang asked Lapid how he thought about the relationship between the protagonist and the supporting role, and Lapid wisely replied: "Just like everyone is the protagonist of their own life, it is in this way that they can become good supporting characters." ”
Excellent film music is not "voiceover", but "love in picture", Dong Dongdong, Chen Xi, Zhou Shen won the Best Music Award, and the film that won the award was "Totem" Thomas Becca; Cho Xiaoding and Thai director Pingpaka Tovira presented the award to Park Song-il for Best Cinematography "Light of the White Tower"; Su Youpeng and screenwriter Reed lamented that the encounter between a good director and a good screenwriter is a fate, and Zhang Lu, who won the Best Screenplay Award for "Light of the White Tower", received the trophy from them; Chen Yan and Zhang Songwen, vice chairmen of the China Writers Association, opened the award for the Best Artistic Contribution Award, which Zhang Songwen said was a recognition of the filmmaker's creativity, and the honor was "The Light of the White Tower".
Wu Yanshu and Zhou Dongyu took the understanding and resonance of female filmmakers on the acting career as the starting point to reveal the Best Actress Award, which was jointly won by Antonia Sejers of the movie "Punishment" and Lina Reno of the movie "Graceful Journey", which is the first time that the Beijing Film Festival has awarded the Double Best Actress Award; Kwan Jinpeng and Karen Mok presented the award to Xin Baiqing of "The Light of the White Tower", winner of Best Actor; Turkish director Nuri Big Ceylon and Argentine film critic and president of the Mattabrata International Film Festival, Fernando Juan Lima, announced that the winner of the best director was Lila Avilles of "Totem"; Zhang Yimou and Ge You partnered with tacit understanding and humorous words, and presented the award for Best Film. In Ge You's eyes, the standard of a good movie is to rely on "comparison", "than who dares to take a break, watch half of the movie, take a 20-minute break, let the audience go out to eat popcorn, drink water, go to the toilet, the most important thing is that after the break, everyone can still come back, and no one can be less!" In the end, the award went to Punishment.
This year's Beijing Film Festival also awarded director Zhang Yimou the Lifetime Achievement Award, and he received the trophy from his old friend Chen Daoming. In the tribute short film, you can strongly feel the talent and non-stop pace of director Zhang Yimou as the leading figure of China's "fifth generation of directors", as he said, "Movies are made for the heart". To this day, he still lives up to his passion, expanding the artistic space of film and inspiring more Chinese filmmakers to continue to move forward. At the award ceremony, all the filmmakers and guests stood up to bless director Zhang Yimou, and he also modestly said that this award should be called "Lifelong Learning Award" or "Lifelong Persistence Award".
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Connecting filmmakers around the world
Vividly present the development of the times
A city is a movie, and the closing ceremony and award ceremony of the 13th Beijing Film Festival uses film to connect time, vividly presents the development of the times, and writes a perfect footnote for Beijing's "cultural center and international exchange center".
The award ceremony was hosted by Nigmat, Lan Yue, Li Jie and Yue Yue, and the filmmakers' representatives He Bing and Guan Xiaotong introduced the content of the program together. The summary film "Swift Returns to Spring" is voiced by actor Zhou Xun and reads the narration, telling the touching and romantic projection of the film in people's hearts; In the singing of Wang Shengdi and Zheng Haosen, the "Temple of Heaven Award" trophy shined out, allowing people to see the light of the film passed on from generation to generation; Yang Kun's song "Send You a Little Red Flower" is moving, comforting the filmmakers through the hardships they have trekked all the way and praising their tenacity and courage.
Film is a career, but also a belief, choosing a movie is choosing to chase a bright life, do your best, no regrets, Zhou Shen brought a song "Light" to pay tribute to the deceased filmmakers, thank them for using their works to light up the light in people's hearts, the familiar faces that appear on the big screen evoke people's nostalgia for them; Children who have collaborated with Zhang Yimou in movies or performed at the opening ceremony of the "Double Olympics" - Lin Miaoke, Lin Hao, Li Huafei, Wu Haishi, Tang Yaning, Chai Song, Zhang Huike, Li Zhenqiang, Li Zhenfang, the "Little Pigeons" at the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Ma Lanhua Children's Choir performed songs as gifts to director Zhang Yimou, and also spurred the filmmakers on a long journey, only struggle; Hulan's talk show "No One Less" makes people laugh and feel that the brilliance of film art is inseparable from the persistent efforts of filmmakers, in front of and behind the scenes, no one can be less; Mao Amin's "Temple of Heaven's Covenant" conveys the longing and yearning for the future of Chinese films, looking forward to the "annual meeting" of the Beijing Film Festival.
Liu Xiaoshi, Wang Yibo, Yu Shi, Zhai Yujia, Wang Zichen and Lu Xin, the creators of one of the closing films, "The King of the Long Sky", appeared at the award ceremony together, this youthful, passionate, inspirational blockbuster highlights the pride of Chinese films spreading their wings and soaring into the sky. In the upcoming May Day program, "King of the Long Sky" will "lead" more Chinese films, dare to chase dreams, and create new miracles.
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Cultural benefits are praised by fans
The potential of the film market is limitless
The Beijing Film Festival keeps its promise to "come to Beijing to see the best movies in the world" issued by fans, and has been recognized and praised by fans. After thirteen years, the Beijing Film Festival has screened more than 4,000 Chinese and foreign films and more than 10,000 screenings. This year's "Beijing Screening" unit selected more than 180 excellent Chinese and foreign film works, which were screened in 28 cooperative theaters and experience spaces, and the ticket rush was reproduced on the day of ticket opening, and within ten seconds, the 4K version of "City of Sorrow", "If Love" and the IMAX version of "2001: A Space Odyssey" were sold out. In terms of the age distribution of ticket-grabbing audiences, young audiences under the age of 25 increased by 11% compared with last year, which shows the vigorous trend and huge potential of China's film market.
This year's Beijing Film Festival has added fan shortlisted films to watch films and post-screening exchange activities, while the three Chinese films shortlisted for the "Temple of Heaven Award" "Disappearing Her", "Look at the Bridge" and "Light of the White Tower" have attracted a large number of fans to have a sneak peek, which is enough to prove the audience's ardent expectations and firm confidence in domestic films, and more "Chinese stories" are entering the international vision through the Beijing Film Festival and spreading Chinese voices.
On the basis of continuing the classic unit setting, "Beijing Screening" has designed a number of specially curated themes such as "Silk Road Decade, Lenovo Future: Film Asia Connection", presenting you with novel, rich and three-dimensional film works, and a variety of rare "treasure films" let the audience feast their eyes and indulge in an unforgettable world film journey. The "Sharing on the Cloud" unit allows movie programs to be shared with movie audiences across the country through streaming media platforms.
The Beijing Film Festival has become an important part of the global XR ecosystem, and this year's "Beijing Screening" XR unit expands the festival's diversified narrative exploration and extends the iterative boundaries of the metaverse.
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The road to a film powerhouse
Promote the exchange and sharing of world films
This year's Beijing Film Festival continues the brand of "Film Power Forum", and the three core forums provide a multi-dimensional development path for Chinese films to climb the peak, strengthen the vigorous trend of Chinese films, and highlight the international, professional and leading nature of the Beijing Film Festival.
The industry forum of "Telling Chinese Stories in Film Language" deeply discussed how to make good use of the world medium of film to show a more real, three-dimensional and comprehensive China, promote world film exchanges and sharing, and promote the integration and mutual learning of human civilization.
The International Cooperation Forum of "Promoting Mutual Learning among Civilizations with the Bridge of Light and Shadow" has a broad vision and novel ideas, and firmly believes that the film industry will open up a new situation in the changing situation and create glory again.
The creation forum focusing on "the exploration, pursuit and creation of realistic film works" actively promotes the narrative system of Chinese realist films facing the future and going to the world on the basis of adapting to the social life of the new era.
Chinese director Zhang Yimou, Turkish director and screenwriter Nuri Bigg Ceylon, German director and screenwriter Florian Henkel von Donasmark, and Hong Kong photographer, director and writer Yang Fan brought four in-depth film master classes.
As well as three thematic forums, "China Film Investment and Financing Summit", "Young Filmmakers Forum" and "China Film Capital Development Forum", they carried out useful explorations combining theory and practice, focused on hot issues in the industry, talked freely about cutting-edge creative concepts, and encouraged Chinese filmmakers to work together to embark on a new journey.
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Drive the innovation of the whole industry chain
Create a never-ending film festival
This year's Beijing Film Festival "Beijing Market" fully restarts offline activities, integrates high-quality resources of the entire domestic and foreign film industry chain, and becomes an important incubator for the domestic film market and new works by newcomers, which is fully recognized by the industry.
The Beijing market has created a number of "firsts" this year. For the first time, the event venue was adjusted to Langyuan Station, Chaoyang District, where the Internet celebrity check-in place, organized five major sections of content, and created three major platforms; For the first time, it created the largest exhibition of film cultural and creative derivatives in Beijing, driving the consumption growth of mass culture; For the first time, a "chief producer" team was added to activate film and television resources and lay a bridge between creators and the market; At the same time, it deepened cooperation with Beijing International Sports Film Week, and established the "Sports Film Project Support Fund" in conjunction with the venture capital sector.
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Inspire youthful power
Become the "cradle" of film talent
The Beijing Film Festival actively promotes film exchanges, cultivates young film talents, and sincerely does practical things for young directors, which has formed a "positive cycle" of the young director cultivation system. "Project Venture Capital" has set up the "strongest final judging committee lineup of venture capital" in China in recent years, and Hong Kong director Chen Kexin led the jury to discover new works by newcomers and encourage young filmmakers from the mainland to explore new models of cooperation. At the same time, it continued to strengthen talent exchanges, and "blossomed" after signing the first contract with the Hong Kong International Film Festival last year, not only four Hong Kong projects were shortlisted for the Beijing Film Festival venture capital this year, attracting young directors from Hong Kong, China, to actively participate, and the two film festivals also signed cooperation again.
Not only that, judges from all fields gathered to "focus on the future", and young filmmakers from all over the world rushed to Beijing; ReelFocus Real Image Program has a strong guest lineup, providing support for the whole industry chain for young filmmakers, opening special tracks for newcomers, and creating a talent exchange market; The young directors who stood out from the "project venture capital" "feeding" film festival, director Xu Lei directed the theme short film of the Beijing Film Festival, and Gu Xiaogang participated in the "project venture capital" as the review committee, etc., are all embodiments of the increasingly perfect young director cultivation system. Through the Chinese small and medium-cost art film screening and forum series activities, it shows and stimulates the creative power of young filmmakers and helps small and medium-cost art films break through; Launch the "China Documentary Film Screening Program" to expand the communication influence of documentary films and promote the high-quality development of Chinese documentary films in the new era; Hold a spring job fair to connect talents and inject vitality into the development of the industry.
This year, the film festival also reached a long-term cooperation agreement with the industrial park and the Chaoyang International Cultural Original Young Talents Lounge, etc., and organized venture capital sharing meetings, industry salons and other activities from time to time throughout the year to activate the surrounding film and television industry resources, and make the Beijing Film Festival a "never-ending film festival".
In this process, the "youthfulness" of the Beijing Film Festival has become more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, attracting a large number of young people to participate in interaction. The 30th College Student Film Festival "Standing for the Light" held eight major enrichment activities, which not only provided a stage for outstanding domestic films to display their achievements, but also cultivated many film talents for Chinese films and promoted the development of China's film industry. The linkage between the Beijing Film Festival and more than 1,000 college teachers and students from 100 colleges and universities makes the Beijing Film Festival more vibrant.