Xu Zheng (Curator of Documentary Unit of Shanghai International Film Festival)
1. Talking about trees
Best Documentary at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival, telling the story of three veteran Sudanese directors who want to rebuild a cinema. They were among the first African students to be sent to the Moscow Film Academy in the 1970s to study film. Due to war, political and religious factors, the film industry completely withered away. The old man's campaign to rebuild the cinema reflects his belief in cinema. Loving movies is a right, regardless of whether you are rich or poor, noble or poor, or national.
2. Angles are Madw of Light
Through the learning and life of post-war Afghan teachers and children, it reflects the survival of the whole society. Thanks to the United States, there is nothing here but war. The contrasting clips of pre-war prosperity and post-war devastation add a layer of heaviness to history. The most shocking image in the film is the collective masochistic ritual for Hussein's death.
3. Gods of Molenbeek
The film documents the innocent interaction of two interfaith six-year-old children of different faiths in the Belgian town of Molenbeck. The town is seen as a hotbed of terrorists in Europe and a center for European "jihadists". The film examines the adult world, including faith, color, race, and country, and asks why the adult world is so deeply hated and isolated
4. Under The Wire
War correspondent Mary Colvin is a war correspondent for the Sunday Times, who has covered several wars in 30 years, and she was blinded in one eye during the war, so her signature attire was to wear a pirate-like black blindfold, and the price of blood never stopped her from returning to more dangerous areas. This film is about her final story.
5. The Fourth Kingdom
Tells the story of the lives of some Mexican immigrants at the New York Illegal Immigrant Relief Center, where they sort garbage all year round, and the "American Dream" becomes an eternal mystery. The director uses a unique shooting to shoot the junkyard into a kind of absurd and futuristic beauty, and with the natural use of music, the film has a strong texture.
6) When Lambs Become Lions
It's a more dramatic documentary than a drama, telling the story of an ivory dealer, hunter, and animal ranger in Kenya, with three threads intertwined into a complex conflict. The film uses a direct cinematic approach to filming the process of hunting and harvesting, exposing the government's inaction in animal protection, with mature techniques and unique perspectives.
7. Honeyland
The last female beekeeper in Europe lived, she and her mother, who had been bedridden for four years, lived in a deserted village in the mountains of Macedonia, with no water and no electricity, and she beesed and collected honey in a natural way, in harmony with nature in the way of the previous industrial society. Until the invasion of modern production methods, quick success and rapid progress. The film is skillful in photography and exquisite in the picture, which quietly presents the loneliness, conflict and dilemma of the characters.
8. Boxing Boy in the Slum (Ghetto Balboa)
The story of a former gangster criminal who comes out of a good boxer coach and a teenage boxer who comes out of a slum. It is rare to see such a sophisticated sports documentary film, the director adopted the narrative strategy of the drama film, followed the growth of the characters for a long time, and maintained the texture of the documentary very well, the photography was skillfully used, and the use of black and white masks was very stylized.
9. Midnight Family
A documentary version of Martin Scorsese's "Through the Yin and Yang Realms". It tells the story of mexico City's private family running an ambulance due to insufficient public ambulance resources: the difficulty of making a living and the conflict between the morality of rescue, and the extortion of the corrupt police in Mexico City. Compared with those medical documentaries in China, this film lens is used freely and skillfully in such a small space inside the ambulance, and the sense of cinema is full of emotion, which is impressive.
10. The Mayoral Campaign: Italian Politics Know All (Il Sindaco)
The documentary follows the dramatic process of a young journalist running for mayor, not so much as he campaigned to become mayor, but rather to make a documentary about the campaign. The protagonist attempts to tell the world how politics works through filming, covertly filming various political old fritter dialogues, and selling the right to vote for small profits.
Wang Yunian (founder of the public number Yuzu Nianhua)
1. Shadows
Improvisation and improvisation have made Casawitz one of the representatives of independent films. Throughout film history, people like Casawitz who make free films are also too rare, so it is especially worth stopping and watching. The racial issues involved in the film, the confused young generation, are more topical at the moment.
2. Gloria
Lin Qingxia's blonde style in "Chongqing Forest" is a tribute to Casawitz's "Female Gloria". Such a strong and big heroine story, surviving under the male society, thrilling and thought-provoking.
3. La grande vadrouille
In the Oscar hit "Roma", the maid Cleo and her boyfriend watched this movie in the theater. As the representative work of French comedy master Louis de Finés, not only the joint code "Mandarin Duck Tea" in the film has become a classic of a generation, but the air battle scene at the end of the film is also unforgettable.
4. Season for breakups (Iklimler)
This relatively unpopular Ceylon work was chosen because it was the only film in which he and his wife personally starred. In this play, we can see the director's reflection on married life, especially the use of focus changes to convey the relationship between the characters, and the audiovisual language is pure and very enjoyable.
5. Weir Little Zombies
It can be said that it is the most playful and sub-zeitgeist Japanese film of the year. After making a name for himself in Sundance and Berlin, he finally met with the Shanghai audience. The most important thing to watch this movie is to put aside all the shackles, play crazy with the director once, and be sure to wait until the subtitles are over, this Easter egg will completely subvert your viewing experience.
6. Evangelion Theater Edition: DEATH TRUE(2)[EVANGELION:Death True(2)]
While waiting for evangelion's new theatrical version, you may wish to take a look at the grand finale of this old version, which not only makes a complete review of the TV version, but also leads the audience into a stylized, dark spiritual world, which is one of the highest works of animated films in the Heisei era.
7. Evangelion Theater Edition: The End of EVANGELION
8. Mad Max: Fury Road
The Screening at the Shanghai International Film Festival is a Black & Chrome version of Max 4: Fury Road, which is not simply a color version of black and white, but a unique display in many details. According to director George Miller: The Black Chrome version is the best version of the movie!
9、死囚越狱(A Death Row Inmate Escaped)
Bresson's portrayal of the details of the characters deserves repeated examination on the big screen. His film characters have a firm belief and a noble spirit, and this pure state must be shown with pure film.
10. Distant Voices, Still Lives
In addition to Ken Lodge and Mike Lee, Terrance Davis is an easily overlooked master of British cinema. The film uses silent camera composition, movement, and ingenious sound design to show the emotional journey of a family for more than a decade. Free time and space expression and deep emotional expression constitute a unique viewing experience.
Yan Minyin (Curator of Animation Unit of Shanghai International Film Festival)
1. Leave (Away)
There is only one protagonist in the film, the scene visual effects are fantastic, the soundtrack is infectious, like a dream and a game, a strong sense of substitution and a huge sense of oppression will bring a very unique viewing experience.
2. Dilili In Paris
Directed by the French animation master Michel Othello, it combines live-action scenes and paintings to create a wonderful atmosphere of dreamlike and realistic, with a very unique animation style, full of rich French style and style.
3. Venus Wars
A science fiction animated film released in 1989 and directed by anime guru Yasuhiko Ryowa, one of the founders of the Mobile Suit Gundam series, debuted on the Chinese big screen in a 30th anniversary restoration.
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
An animated film that pays homage to the Spanish master of surreal cinema, Buñuel, with its rough scenes and dark tones and imitations of Buñuel's cinematic approach, is sure to be fascinating.
Modest Heroes – Ponoc Short Films Theatre, Volume 1
The first shot of the Prika Studio animated short film project created by Hirohide Mirin, a disciple of Ghibli' disciple, consists of three well-made short films with strong soundtracks and voice casts, as well as an interview with producer Yoshiaki Nishimura revealing the behind-the-scenes story of the production of the short film, which must be seen.
6. Akira
Katsuyo Otomo is a masterpiece of Japanese animation. The 2K restored version restores the charming texture of the original work, and it is worth experiencing this god work and the "god prediction" of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in the big screen.
7. Evangelion Theater Edition: DEATH TRUE(2) [EVANGELION: DEATH TRUE(2)]
The old theatrical version of the EVA series, the strongest god of the Heisei era, landed at the Festival! DEATH TRUE(2) provides an overview of the important storylines and highlights of the EVA TV edition, including the famous anime history of "Goddess Smile", how can true EVA fans miss it!
8. Evangelion Theater Edition: Air/The End of Evangelion
The second part of the old theatrical version of EVA fully embodies the supremacy of EVA's obscure and grand world view and dark and cruel philosophy. Famous scenes such as the second machine war mass production machine and the huge Ayapoli may be the only opportunity to watch the movie.
Tito and the Birds
Dark allegorical fairy tale depicted in oil paintings of color and brushstrokes supplemented by digital drawings, an animated feature film nominated for the Annecy Award and the Annecy Animated Film Festival.
10, if you can ride your wave
Japanese animation geek Masaaki Yuasa's latest animated feature, the signature character action, spatial perspective and scene scheduling tell a love story with laughter and tears, the most suitable movie for summer, there is no one!
Demon Demon (Film Culture Worker)
1. J'accuse
A classic of French anti-war films shot a hundred years ago, the festival's screening is like turning on a time machine to bring the audience back a century.
2. Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora)
The classic of the silent film ending period is also the Shanghai debut of the work of Louis Brooks, the immortal goddess of the silver screen.
3. Titicut Follies
The first work of documentary master Wiseman was banned in the United States for twenty-five years.
4. Spartacus
Kubrick was deeply involved in the restoration of works, and is also one of the masterpieces of the film restoration god Robert Harris, and it took four years for the festival to finally win its 4K restored continental premiere.
5. Sátántangó
4K restoration, a total length of seven and a half hours, a once-in-a-lifetime big screen experience, what to ask for.
6. Flowers of Shanghai
Since 2012, Shanghai Film Festival has teamed up with Jaeger-LeCoultre digitally to restore the most gorgeous and Shanghainese films.
7. Amazing Grace
The precious image of the best soul live album of all time has finally come to light after more than forty years of oblivion.
8、春潮（Torrents of Spring）
Female directors Yang Lina's new works, Jin Yanling and Hao Lei's acting skills supported the whole scene, expressing the repressed female consciousness while taking into account social criticism.
9. Cats have nine lives (Neun Leben hat die Katze)
An unknown masterpiece of German feminist cinema, it first landed in the Chinese-speaking area after the restoration was completed 5 years ago.
10、钱(Money)
Bresson's masterpiece, mk2's 2K restored version, is stunning.
Liu Qing (Wen Wei Po Editor, Film Critic)
1. Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora)
How did the "bobo head" that has been fashionable for a century come about? Just watch this one. With this film, the heroine Louis Brooks entered the pantheon of the goddess of silent films with the role of "Lulu".
2. Lancelot du Lac
Bresson has made a well-known "legend" into a contemporary myth, bringing the ancient story of love and darkness into a unique rhythm of the film. This is not the best and easy to watch in Bresson's work, but entering this movie will see all the secrets of Bresson's creation.
3. National Gallery
As a tool of gaze, the film fully demonstrates its value and power in such a film. Whether you know it or not, art history is there, and so are the people who create art history.
4. Hakuja den
Japan's first color animated feature film, a super mix of Chinese and Japanese folklore and folklore, the most dazzling national style in East Asia in the 1950s, it is no wonder that Miyazaki's "white moonlight" is in the heart of Hayao Miyazaki.
5. J'accuse
The director joined the army in 1917 and has repeatedly watched his peers become new ghosts. The screenwriter lost an arm on the battlefield. So at the end of the film, the undead come out of the grave and accuse "Is our sacrifice worth it?" "The meaning of that moment is more than aesthetic. It is said that it is a miracle of film history because it has both artistic height and documentary value.
6. Your uterus (Sinapupunan)
The director mendoza, who has always been fierce, gently photographed mindanao in the southern Philippines. However, there is no paradise in the world, and the poetic side of the sea is still the price of blood, from Manila to Mindanao, women are always living in a violent world.
7. Opening Night
Inside and outside the film is a fake scene of director Casawitz and heroine Rolands, an artist couple. "Improvisation" breaks everything in the drama and shapes everything, and in the penetration of "improvisation" and "design", the relationship between the character and the actor, the relationship between the actor and the audience, the relationship between the audience and the role, peeling off the onion layers is as clear as the layers. The "birth of an actor" is actually a painful proposition, and they have to be nakedly exposed to the gaze of others again and again.
8. Hibernation (Kış Uykusu)
See Chekhov in President Ceylon's films, who are both Chekhov's interpreter and painful understanding of the reality of Asia Minor, rewriting "The Three Sisters", "Cherry Orchard" and "Seagull" into the context of contemporary Turkey.
9. Varda par Agnès
Agnès Varda's Swan Song, 90-year-old her in the waves of time, gazing at her beach, is "the story of her life".
10. Daisies
It is different from the first glance, like a montage of submachine gun bullets brings the thrill of destruction, it is colorful and humorous - life can be art, pleasure can be protest.
Magasa (Film Culture Worker)
1、大轮回（The Wheel of Life）
The film is divided into three generations, and the "first life" directed by Hu Jinquan is the highest-rated paragraph of the film, and the author's style of composition and scheduling is very obvious. Director Li Xing's "Second Life" song art passage and the love story of the love triangle are also exquisitely combined. Director Bai Jingrui's "Third Life" has a strong sense of realism, focusing on highlighting the conflict between feudal superstition and modern civilization.
2. The Monkey King
The screening of "The Haunting of the Heavenly Palace" is an original, complete, digital restoration of the upper and lower sets, and watching this film is not only a nostalgic journey to make up for childhood regrets, but also a rare opportunity to study and understand the history of Chinese animation.
3, Torajiro-like Affair 1 (Otoko wa Tsuraiyo)
"The Story of Injiro" is a national film and is the Guinness Book of Records holder for the world's longest series of films. This will be such a clear and precise Injiro that you have never seen before.
4. Tokyo Story
This restored version of Tokyo Story was screened for the first time in China and is not to be missed.
5. Street of Shame
Here, you can see the vivid lives of women who sell spring in the context of Japan's promulgation of the "Spring Sale Prevention Law" in the 1950s.
6. Landscape in the Mist
"Scenery in the Mist" is the third part of Angelopoulos's "Silent Trilogy", the process of the two brothers and sisters fleeing to a foreign land, but also an observation of the director's bleak society, the process of finding his father recorded in the long lens, and the reflection on this society where the faith is lost.
7. Cocoon (Koza)
This is the Chairman's first short film. The short film was successfully shortlisted for Cannes.
8. Stagecoach
Your most unmissable work in Westerns has influenced countless later filmmakers, not just Western creators, such as Orson Wells.
9. Words (Ordet)
Dreyer's pinnacle, a parable about faith, the 4K restored version shows Dreyer's precise control of the image to the greatest extent.
10. Le livre d'image
Godard's latest work, 88, searches for truth and answers in images.
Teacher Hiuchi (Film Writer)
1. The Dust of Time
If it weren't for an accident that took Anzhe's life, the pattern shown in the second part of this "Greek trilogy" can be imagined to what extent the third part can go. Here, Anzhe has abandoned the obvious formal techniques, especially the various flashback techniques; flashback is especially important to him, precisely because history and the past support the full connotation of the character, which is the secret of his art: the specific character is in fact given a mass meaning, or simply the embodiment of a concept.
2. Gentle Woman (Une femme douce)
The heartbroken husband accompanied his deceased wife, and the past about her came to life one by one. However, director Bresson pointed out that the film "has no flashbacks", so we should understand that the past is not "called" but because the present is not separated from it in fact. Death and the corpse are just a catalyst, acting as an intermediary connecting the past and the present. It is spiritually and allegorically connected to "Remembrance of The Age of Water".
3. Husbands
On a walk-and-go journey, the three husbands experience an adventure-style night. It seems random, but in fact the three people represent three typical, but when the three of them disperse, bringing out three diversions for the film, but because of the interlaced presentation, they are both separated and compatible to complete a complete concept of "husband". From this film, Casaveti began his 1970s with a more brilliant and more brilliant one than the other. "Fu Jun" can be described as the abuse of these masterpieces.
4. Moon
Although we understand that low-budget films tend to fill a work with limited resources and elements by saving scenes, characters, and especially making good use of repetition. But to be like "Moon" is extreme, because it translates the above innate restrictions into all its advantages. More importantly, such an extreme material can actually weave a peak loop turn, unexpected story out! No wonder the director couldn't make "Warcraft" at all, just as Chopin couldn't write a large-scale work.
5. Hibernation (Kış Uykusu)
If people point out that this film is full of too many stagnant and lengthy paragraphs, isn't it precisely because of the mood of "hibernation"? In fact, this work, which makes good use of weather and landscape, always wanders in the almost boundless exterior and dark internal space, in order to formally approach the frozen hearts of the characters, the wide-eyed gaze of the world in which they live, and carry out gentle stimulation. We didn't have the opportunity to see the opposing power of these two images on the big screen before, and this time, we don't want to miss it again.
6 Men in Black
There are many creative science fiction and alien movies to watch, but there are not many that are as funny as this and so creative. The director's previous joy of filming the "Adams Family", coupled with the narrative skills honed in "The Short Man", came to "Men in Black" to integrate various elements: whimsy, gimmicks, subversion, and topology into the most perfect state. In fact, not only this one, but also the three "Men in Black" maintain such advantages.
7. Gravity
Although "Young Pi" gave me a new taste of 3D, it was only a year apart, and this feeling was surpassed by the IMAX experience of "Gravity". And it's still my personal experience in IMAX viewing history, a film that locks characters and audiences in the open and closed field of outer space, if it weren't for IMAX, it would have detracted from at least 40% of the fun — not to put it bluntly, I rarely recommend a film for the sake of carriers, but it makes me an exception.
8, Noboritsuki First Man
The choreographer strives to create another side of the legend: his ordinary human appearance, but it took a thousand words and more than two hours, far less than an IMAX screen change, with a full-screen reflection of the vast universe in the 70mm lens hologram, to compare his spiritual contrast and pull - this is the source of all the conflict between him and his family and life.
9. Le silence de la Mer
The self-proclaimed grandfather of the New Wave directed this astonishing debut not because it embodied the spirit of the New Wave ten years earlier, but because it was at least a decade ahead of the previous decade in form and became the object of learning for future generations of authors; although Melville himself suddenly abandoned this technique and took a different path.
10. Hayan (good morning)
In this work, which is closely related to space, in line with the rhythm of children, it is like instantaneous movement, in a neighborhood that seems to be so similar to each other, crossing each other, briskly as felt in the immutable daily life: time passes at once. We see the beauty conveyed by Ozu's deep gaze: the daily order is full of all kinds of wonderful rhythms.
Tang Weijie (Associate Professor, Film Scholar, Tongji University)
1. Lancelot du Lac
Bresson painted you medieval, anti-legendary legends still have knights in them.
2. Flowers of Shanghai
From the flower of Wu literature to the flower of Chinese film, it has gone through a hundred years.
3、天书奇谭（The Legend of Sealed Book）
The cult of Chinese animation films, the closing masterpieces of art films of that era.
4. National Gallery
With patience, Wiseman will definitely tell you a lot.
5. Curtiz
He made "North African Spy" and achieved the only little golden man in his life, the contemporary Hungarian filmmakers pay tribute to their predecessors in Hollywood.
6. Black Tulipe noire
Commemorate that unforgettable face, along with the era of that dubbing film.
7. Blue light (Das Blaue Licht)
Alpine movies, and the legendary woman, now she's showing her face from the clouds.
8. Torajiro-like affair (Otoko wa Tsuraiyo)
The legend of the second son of the neon country, the favorite of Chinese audiences in the 80s.
9. Hakuja den
In addition to Yang Guifei, the white lady Xu Xian also spoke Japanese, Japan's first color cartoon, and inspired the later Miyazaki Hayao.
10. Le voyage dans la lune
He landed on the moon 67 years before the United States — on film — without Mérieux, and perhaps something else was in theaters.
Europa (Golden Horse Awards judge, film critic)
1. Cocoon (Koza)
Even in short films, as a director, Ceylon was completely shooting "feelings" during the shooting process. Starring parents, the beginning of the family filming.
2. The town (Kasaba)
Tell your child a story, a story that is nothing. In the child's mind, this story will have its own life.
3. Mayıs Sıkıntısı)
This film that celebrates nature and the countryside is beautiful and moving, and it is extremely private. It is also a footnote to "The Small Town".
4. Far Away (Uzak)
The city has changed you. One of the many films that pay tribute to Tarkovsky. Rebuttal is not accepted.
5. Season for Breakups (Iklimler)
Whenever the seasons change in the movie, time turns into a viscous gelatinous substance that no longer flows.
6. Three monkeys (Üç maymun)
If you just want to see the story, it's a social news. If you take a long-term view, you will see the world of directors, and the weather is endless.
7. Past Asia Minor (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da)
The dead are dead, but the fate of those involved is completely changed. The light of cinema illuminates the darkness of the situation.
Only when it snows, the film belongs to Mr. Chairman of the Jury. Other times, it belonged to drama, to Chekhov.
9. Wild pear tree (Ahlat Ağacı)
Likes to show off, like two twenty-minute quarrelsome conversations. Many of us, lonely and twisted, remained in the wild pear trees of the country land.
10. Fish Tank
The white horse of the girl, the river of youth, and the law shark bring you a harmonious lesson of growth education.
Sha Dan (Program Planner, China Film Archive)
1、吟游诗人（The Hoary Legends of the Caucasus）
Sergei Parajanov's work is not to make the film poetic, but to make the film = picture X music, return to poetry.
2. The Extraordinary Voyage
A work in this year's "Flying to the Moon" section. Being able to walk into history in such a vivid way is a gift from the art of cinema.
3. The Trial of Joan of Arc
Bresson's strength demonstrates how to express the richest and deepest connotations in the most concise and concise film language. French filmmakers have never stopped digging into Joan of Arc's story, and it's worth revisiting dumont before enjoying dumont's latest rendition.
4. Gloria
Luc Besson borrowed it, and Wong Kar-wai paid tribute to it. New York City under Cassaveti's lens unleashes a lethal charm that complements Gina Rowlands.
5. Fish Tank
Andrea Arnold is a master of atmosphere-setting, and both Fishbowl and Wuthering Heights are underrated works. The topic of social class, which has penetrated deep into the marrow of British culture, always produces new sharp edges in her films.
6. Amazing Grace
The fate of the film is no less than that of Wells's "The Other Side of the Wind", and its documentary intention has opened up the dimension of historical time and space. After more than forty years of dust, we finally had the privilege of appreciating the first-hand performance materials of that year, which from the perspective of archival preservation, is really "strange grace".
7. Old Boys
British retro and French romantic combination of literary and artistic sketches, a variety of terriers laid for fans are interesting and unpretentious. In fact, this film can also be selected for the "Flying to the Moon" unit, and the translated name of the North Film Festival is "Take Me to the Moon", and it will be understood when you go to see it.
8. The Sound of Silence
This film has a psychotropic effect. Be sure to find a cinema with a strong sound effect to experience what a movie is made for a cinema.
9. The Bra
Kusturica loves to cast Miki Manojlovic as an old driver, but the film is a fresh, poetic, funny, retro, absurd "bra recognized woman".
10. Crystal Swan
Belarus's first "Olympic bid film" in 22 years, the color and composition are very exquisite. The people who pursued the dream of freedom were a bright color in that desolate era.