Since its inception in 2018, the "Belt and Road" Film Week has gathered the annual strong films recommended by the member institutions of the "Belt and Road" Film Festival Alliance every year, allowing the audience to share the latest achievements of filmmakers from all over the world in exchanges and mutual learning.
The theme of this year's "Belt and Road" Film Week Film Festival is "Opening the Heart World", and the 20 selected films show the encounters of people's lives in different cultural backgrounds, the waves of inner thoughts and emotions, and the choice of fate, and look forward to bringing the audience the aftertaste of art, spiritual experience and spiritual resonance.
Among them, 8 films were shortlisted for the film Wednesday honors. The three honors are: "Media Attention Film", "Media Attention Filmmaker", and "Most Loved Film by Audience".
Today, I will introduce 8 shortlisted films, they are: "The Fox Hides in the Hole" that tries to tap the innocent potential of the "bad boys"; the fictional story "Pink Cloud" that echoes the human life during the epidemic period; "Mordauga", which explores the fate of man and nature; "The Other Me", which spies on my own heart; "The Drowning Butterfly" that directly hits the iranian city; "Take Omar Home" that tells the warm and kindwill between strangers; "The Box of Memories" that was shortlisted for the main competition in Berlin and accidentally overturned the youth past. "Shadowy" which records the collision of old and new ideas of contemporary Turks.
The specific introduction is as follows:
The fox hides in the hole
Fox in a Hole
-2020-
Highlights: Austrian version of Dead Poetry Society
Fox, who was originally the band's drummer, came to teach at the juvenile prison. Together with another prison teacher, Elizabeth Berger, he tries to tap into the innocence of children through music and painting. During this time, Samira, an introverted teenage girl, was held in solitary confinement for violence. In the process of trying to understand Samira and trying to open the girl's heart knot, Fox finally has the courage to face his inner trauma again.
Pink clouds
The Pink Cloud
-2021-
What to watch: 17 years of conception, 19 years of shooting; if it must be continuously isolated, what will the future hold?
The film was shortlisted for the World Drama Competition at the 37th Sundance Film Festival. A mysterious and deadly pink cloud has appeared around the world, and people have been forced to stay at home. Unexpectedly, the pink clouds did not disperse for a long time, and the blockade became the norm. Men and women who were strangers also gradually became husband and wife. When men slowly adapt to the blockade, women begin to nostalgic for the past, and inner difficulties gradually appear.
The other me
The Other One
What to watch: A philosophical dialogue inspired by Melville's Moby Dick
The film is an observational documentary film in which the director spent two years connecting with the characters in the film. The film's story revolves around an old man who chose to marginalize himself more than forty years ago. The old man lived alone somewhere at the end of the world, but he was not alone. The days change between reading and hunting, between drinking and exploring. One day, the tide washed the carcass of a beluga whale onto the beach. The old man who witnessed this began a philosophical speculation with his own heart.
Mordauga
Soul
Highlights: Directed by Cao Jinling, director of "Wuhan Day and Night", Li Pingbin's lens explores the original forest scenery, Liao Qingsong clips, Lin Qiang soundtrack, Wang Chuanjun and Qi Xi lead the starring.
The film was shortlisted for the main competition section of the 42nd Cairo International Film Festival. The last cold temperate primary forest in China is located in Mordauga, Inner Mongolia, and carpet felling has left only a few dozen centuries-old trees in the primary forest. The film tells the thrilling story of an Evenk lumberjack who went through in the 1990s to protect this primeval forest.
Drowning butterflies
Drown
Highlights: Rare Iranian crime genre films; sweeping the 2020 Iranian Dawn Film Festival with audience awards and other five major awards.
Pavane is a female swimming coach who works in a women-only swimming pool in Tehran. One day, her swimming instructional video was widely disseminated on the Internet, and the family was torn apart. Pavanay's brother-in-law, Hashemite's younger brother Khoja, embarks on a journey through the underground labyrinth of Tehran in order to track down the perpetrators of the sneaky and leaked videos.
Take Omar home
Abu Omar
Highlights: "Tel Aviv is Burning" male lead Kays Nassef road movie new work
Salah, a Palestinian man living in Israel, unfortunately lost his young son, Omar, and was customarily required to take his son back to his hometown for burial. In order to return home as soon as possible, Salah decided to cross the border with a duffel bag wrapping the remains of his young son. However, strict military controls are being imposed on the Palestinian-Israeli border, making his journey extremely difficult. Millie, a pregnant single woman, met Salah while working at the mall. After learning about her father's difficulties, Millie decided to help him as much as she could. During this short but gentle road journey, two lonely souls become partners with each other.
A box of memories
Memory Box
Highlights: Tape and film look back at the memories of youth
The film was shortlisted for the main competition at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival. On Christmas Eve, single mother Maya and daughter Alex receive an unexpected courier: a cardboard box containing Maya's memories of her youth. Out of curiosity, Alex sneaked through the materials. Voices from the past are unsealed; the timeline jumps from the sedate serenity of modern Montreal to the wartime hustle and bustle of Beirut in the eighties. Between fantasy and reality, Alex enters the world of her mother, and a memory of the turbulent life and adolescent years of the Lebanese civil war is reopened.
It's like a shadow
Ghosts
Highlights: International Critics Week Awards at the 77th Venice Film Festival
A girl who loves to dance, a mother who chooses desperately for her son, a young girl who loves to dance, a feminist artist, a cunning middleman; a drug trafficking incident in a local community in Istanbul is inextricably linked to the four of them. The film uses a network-shaped narrative structure to interleave, superimpose and weave the fates of the four characters, outlining a noisy contemporary story.
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