Family dramas have been used repeatedly in cinema to highlight generational gaps, in one of the most common, and frequently most intriguing “tendencies” of non-mainstream cinema. Documentarist turned filmmaker Yang Lina presents a movie in that fashion, by bringing together three generations of Chinese women whose relationships are mostly dominated by clash and tension.
“Spring Tide” is screening at Helsinki Cine Aasia
Guo Jianbo is a journalist specializing in social news, who, as the intro scene highlights, frequently deals with scandals. Her attitude, however, also brings her trouble, since her articles are not exactly of the popular type the audience wants, as a former classmate who is now her higher up repeatedly states. Jianbo is also the mother of a young daughter, Wanting, whom she raises alone, with the help of her mother, as her husband was killed in an accident. The mother, Ji Minglan, helps out in the local community after retirement,...
“Spring Tide” is screening at Helsinki Cine Aasia
Guo Jianbo is a journalist specializing in social news, who, as the intro scene highlights, frequently deals with scandals. Her attitude, however, also brings her trouble, since her articles are not exactly of the popular type the audience wants, as a former classmate who is now her higher up repeatedly states. Jianbo is also the mother of a young daughter, Wanting, whom she raises alone, with the help of her mother, as her husband was killed in an accident. The mother, Ji Minglan, helps out in the local community after retirement,...
- 5/7/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Celebrating its 10th anniversary the Helsinki Cine Aasia festival will once again present a selection of the latest films from East and South-East Asia. Along with better known film countries like Korea and Japan, the program also includes films from countries like the Philippines and Cambodia. Many of the festival’s films have been seen at international festivals and have received awards. The opening film is Anatomy of Time (2021) from Thailand, and altogether the program includes 20 films from eight different countries.
Familiar filmmakers
Japanese film director Ogigami Naoko’s newest film Riverside Mukolitta comes to Helsinki Cine Aasia in May. Ogigami became well known to the Finnish audiences with her film Kamome shokudō (2006) which was shot in a restaurant at Punavuori, Helsinki where the story was also set. Ogigami has since become known for the unique characters in her stories. Her latest visit to Finland was in 2019 during the retrospective...
Familiar filmmakers
Japanese film director Ogigami Naoko’s newest film Riverside Mukolitta comes to Helsinki Cine Aasia in May. Ogigami became well known to the Finnish audiences with her film Kamome shokudō (2006) which was shot in a restaurant at Punavuori, Helsinki where the story was also set. Ogigami has since become known for the unique characters in her stories. Her latest visit to Finland was in 2019 during the retrospective...
- 4/19/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
“Fitness advice, gig economy, binge watching Danish crime series, sustainability, sex when the kids watch cartoons, mobile bank ID, personal development 5:2 diet, anti-aging cream, Adobe updates, climate friendly travel, body activism,” Anders rants quietly to the camera, as he walks from his car to home in the equivalent of white picket fence Sweden at the beginning of Swedish Discovery Plus Original “Gotebia,” a half-hour dramedic psychological thriller.
“Exterior renovations, Roblox, mini Rodini hats, dinners from Fedora. Shared family calendar. Find us-time, life with kids, drainage pipes, hot yoga, performance review, changing the plumbing, pub crawls, doggy day care,” he goes on.
43, Anders is out of his depth at work where his company’s motivational speakers are no longer found in the newspaper or on TV but on YouTube, TikTok, Snap and Instagram. And suffering to keep up with the Joneses – in this case tennis player and neighbor Martin’s...
“Exterior renovations, Roblox, mini Rodini hats, dinners from Fedora. Shared family calendar. Find us-time, life with kids, drainage pipes, hot yoga, performance review, changing the plumbing, pub crawls, doggy day care,” he goes on.
43, Anders is out of his depth at work where his company’s motivational speakers are no longer found in the newspaper or on TV but on YouTube, TikTok, Snap and Instagram. And suffering to keep up with the Joneses – in this case tennis player and neighbor Martin’s...
- 1/28/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The 15th edition of the Five Flavours Asian Film Festival (Aff) announced the Grand Prix winner and an Honourable Mention for its New Asian Cinema competition on November 24, 2021.
This year’s award winning films were selected by the International People’s Jury 2021 which included members from Finland, the Netherlands, Poland and Italy.
Grand Prix
The People’s Jury has selected Spring Tide directed by Yang Lina as the winner of this year’s New Asian Cinema section. Spring Tide is a universal depiction of generational trauma shown from a female perspective that subtly highlights the unhealthy dynamics of family relationships. With her strong directorial vision, the filmmaker combines dreamlike elements with a look at China’s past, present and future, which elevates the traditional genre of moral drama to a higher level. The authenticity of Spring Tide can prove to be a soothing and uplifting experience for everyone.
Courtesy of...
This year’s award winning films were selected by the International People’s Jury 2021 which included members from Finland, the Netherlands, Poland and Italy.
Grand Prix
The People’s Jury has selected Spring Tide directed by Yang Lina as the winner of this year’s New Asian Cinema section. Spring Tide is a universal depiction of generational trauma shown from a female perspective that subtly highlights the unhealthy dynamics of family relationships. With her strong directorial vision, the filmmaker combines dreamlike elements with a look at China’s past, present and future, which elevates the traditional genre of moral drama to a higher level. The authenticity of Spring Tide can prove to be a soothing and uplifting experience for everyone.
Courtesy of...
- 11/26/2021
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
I consider movie as the next best thing to travel in getting to know a place, its culture and people. There is so much of China to be seen in the news and the only medium which could take you one step closer is cinema. I should say I was amply rewarded by director Yang Lina’s “Spring Tide”. It got to a point where I started falling in love with the people of a foreign land. I was mesmerised and couldn’t pry my eyes away from the screen for a minute.
“Spring Tide” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Ji Minglan (Elaine jin), her daughter Guo Jinbao (Hao Lei) and granddaughter Guo Wanting (Junxi Qu) all live in a small apartment. Minglan has not been able to forgive her divorced husband from thirty years ago. Jinbao has good memories of her father and attributes the affairs...
“Spring Tide” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
Ji Minglan (Elaine jin), her daughter Guo Jinbao (Hao Lei) and granddaughter Guo Wanting (Junxi Qu) all live in a small apartment. Minglan has not been able to forgive her divorced husband from thirty years ago. Jinbao has good memories of her father and attributes the affairs...
- 11/24/2021
- by Arun Krishnan
- AsianMoviePulse
Few titles which will have been presented at this Friday’s MipDrama look as ingenious in their invention as “Agatha Christie’s Hjerson.”
Anyone looking for a series of novels in the Poirot or Marple vein will look in vain. Sven Hjerson appears in multiple Christie works, but always via (often disparaging) comments made by his creator, fictional crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, a friend of Poirot’s whom Christie invented to let off steam about the travails of crime writing.
Despite being her most popular detective, Oliver would like to kill him off, she says. That’s because she’s made him a foreigner and receives letters from readers complaining about the inaccuracy of her descriptions of him: a fate suffered by Christie with Poirot.
Many decades later, Oliver must be rolling in her grave. Her master sleuth Sven Hjerson has now become the protagonist of an eight-part TV series...
Anyone looking for a series of novels in the Poirot or Marple vein will look in vain. Sven Hjerson appears in multiple Christie works, but always via (often disparaging) comments made by his creator, fictional crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, a friend of Poirot’s whom Christie invented to let off steam about the travails of crime writing.
Despite being her most popular detective, Oliver would like to kill him off, she says. That’s because she’s made him a foreigner and receives letters from readers complaining about the inaccuracy of her descriptions of him: a fate suffered by Christie with Poirot.
Many decades later, Oliver must be rolling in her grave. Her master sleuth Sven Hjerson has now become the protagonist of an eight-part TV series...
- 4/9/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The 6th edition of MipDrama, launching Friday as part of virtual conference and market event MipTV, showcases new series – most in post-production, a few wrapped – from some of the biggest and most exciting drama series players in the world. Few events will command more attention from buyers. The following are brief profiles of what they’ll be watching:
“Agatha Christie’s Hjerson”
Concept Creator: Patrik Gyllström
Prod Cos: Br•F (Sweden), TV4/CMore(Sweden), Nadcon (Germany), Zdf, Government of Aland, Agatha Christie Ltd.
Distribution Co: Zdfe
Main Broadcasters: TV4/CMore, Zdf
Move over Poirot. The latest Christie sleuth will be a dapper Finnish gourmet who, living in a modern-day Stockholm and hardly concealing his bisexuality, ushers the author and the whodunnit into the 21st century. A light and playful reimagining of a figure who only receives glancing references in Christie’s oeuvre, the series packs a powerful producer punch: Sweden...
“Agatha Christie’s Hjerson”
Concept Creator: Patrik Gyllström
Prod Cos: Br•F (Sweden), TV4/CMore(Sweden), Nadcon (Germany), Zdf, Government of Aland, Agatha Christie Ltd.
Distribution Co: Zdfe
Main Broadcasters: TV4/CMore, Zdf
Move over Poirot. The latest Christie sleuth will be a dapper Finnish gourmet who, living in a modern-day Stockholm and hardly concealing his bisexuality, ushers the author and the whodunnit into the 21st century. A light and playful reimagining of a figure who only receives glancing references in Christie’s oeuvre, the series packs a powerful producer punch: Sweden...
- 4/9/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Kai Ko and Vivian Hsu star in romantic drama, which starts shooting later this month in Taipei.
Taipei-based Distribution Workshop has picked up international rights to Taiwanese-American filmmaker Arvin Chen’s latest film Mama Boy.
The romantic drama stars Kai Ko (You Are The Apple Of My Eye) as a shy young man who finds himself attracted to a single mother, played by Vivian Hsu (Little Big Women), at a sex hotel. Filming will start at the end of March in Taipei, with a release targeted for November this year.
The key crew include producer Aileen Li, whose credits include...
Taipei-based Distribution Workshop has picked up international rights to Taiwanese-American filmmaker Arvin Chen’s latest film Mama Boy.
The romantic drama stars Kai Ko (You Are The Apple Of My Eye) as a shy young man who finds himself attracted to a single mother, played by Vivian Hsu (Little Big Women), at a sex hotel. Filming will start at the end of March in Taipei, with a release targeted for November this year.
The key crew include producer Aileen Li, whose credits include...
- 3/15/2021
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
AMC Networks has bought for its streaming service Acorn TV, the U.S., U.K. and Canadian rights to the six-part Swedish series “Bäckström,” produced by the Scandi powerhouse Yellow Bird. The deal was brokered by global distributor Banijay Rights.
“Bäckstrom” is set to launch Feb. 8 in the U.K. and later this spring in North America.
The series is based on best-selling crime author Leif G.W. Persson’s novel “Can You Die Twice,” adapted for the screen by Jonathan Sjöberg (“Black Lake”), who also serves as concept director. Kjell Berqvist (“Spring Tide”) plays the titular character, the rebellious and divisive detective Evert Bäckström, famous for his crime-solving flair. His talent, however, is put to test when a bullet ridden skull is found in the Swedish archipelago, and DNA-results confirm it belongs to a victim of Thailand’s 2004 tsunami.
The six-part crime show had one of the most successful launches...
“Bäckstrom” is set to launch Feb. 8 in the U.K. and later this spring in North America.
The series is based on best-selling crime author Leif G.W. Persson’s novel “Can You Die Twice,” adapted for the screen by Jonathan Sjöberg (“Black Lake”), who also serves as concept director. Kjell Berqvist (“Spring Tide”) plays the titular character, the rebellious and divisive detective Evert Bäckström, famous for his crime-solving flair. His talent, however, is put to test when a bullet ridden skull is found in the Swedish archipelago, and DNA-results confirm it belongs to a victim of Thailand’s 2004 tsunami.
The six-part crime show had one of the most successful launches...
- 2/1/2021
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Local film project “SARSTorm” dominated the 2020 edition of the Golden Horse Film Project Promotion, winning three prizes including the Nt$1 million Grand Prize. Lee Sinje, a previous winner of the best actress prize at the Golden Horse Awards, picked up two further prizes with her executive producing debut, “ABang ADik,” featuring producer-turned-director Jin Ong.
The project market, which ran Nov. 16-18, focuses on Chinese-language film-making and consists of three parts: one-on-one private meetings between producers and potential financiers, distributors and sales agents; professional workshops; and industry panels. It also includes a work-in-progress section and for the first time this year opened to projects to be made as TV or streaming series.
Organizers claimed to have facilitated 992 meetings between financiers from around the world and representatives of the 40 selected projects across the three sections.
Past winners have included “Nina Wu,” Lina Yang’s “Spring Tide,” ”Heavy Craving,” “Changfeng Town” and ”Back to the Wharf,...
The project market, which ran Nov. 16-18, focuses on Chinese-language film-making and consists of three parts: one-on-one private meetings between producers and potential financiers, distributors and sales agents; professional workshops; and industry panels. It also includes a work-in-progress section and for the first time this year opened to projects to be made as TV or streaming series.
Organizers claimed to have facilitated 992 meetings between financiers from around the world and representatives of the 40 selected projects across the three sections.
Past winners have included “Nina Wu,” Lina Yang’s “Spring Tide,” ”Heavy Craving,” “Changfeng Town” and ”Back to the Wharf,...
- 11/18/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Zhang Yimou’s censored film “One Second” apparently now finds itself in the Chinese government’s good books: it has been given pride of place as the opener at the government-run Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival.
The film was initially set to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2019. But its treatment of the still sensitive Cultural revolution period is believed to have been its undoing. It was abruptly pulled from the festival due to “technical reasons,” a common euphemism for censorship, in one of the highest profile cases of Chinese state intervention seen abroad in recent years.
Now, after apparent reshoots and, at long last, government approvals for a Nov. 27 commercial theatrical release, it is set to debut at the festival in Xiamen city on Nov. 25.
Zhang’s premiere likely seeks to add glitz and a bit of legitimacy to the Roosters, which critics have historically...
The film was initially set to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2019. But its treatment of the still sensitive Cultural revolution period is believed to have been its undoing. It was abruptly pulled from the festival due to “technical reasons,” a common euphemism for censorship, in one of the highest profile cases of Chinese state intervention seen abroad in recent years.
Now, after apparent reshoots and, at long last, government approvals for a Nov. 27 commercial theatrical release, it is set to debut at the festival in Xiamen city on Nov. 25.
Zhang’s premiere likely seeks to add glitz and a bit of legitimacy to the Roosters, which critics have historically...
- 11/11/2020
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Details of a massive new film studio complex now being built in Changchun, North East China, have began this week to emerge on the sidelines of the city’s film festival.
Construction began in May on the Changchun International Movie Metropolis project which is forecast to be valued at some $21.5 billion (RMB148 billion), and could start to come on stream in 2023. Among its facilities will be a 35-stage film studio and a theme park expected to attract 10 million tourists annually.
Changchun, a city of more than seven million people, in what was once Manchuria, is closer to Vladivostok in Russia and to the North Korean border than it is to Beijing. Historically, it is a city that was built on railways and car manufacturing, but it also boasts film industry connections that go back to the time of Japanese occupation and the Manchukuo Film Association. The Changchun Film Studio operates...
Construction began in May on the Changchun International Movie Metropolis project which is forecast to be valued at some $21.5 billion (RMB148 billion), and could start to come on stream in 2023. Among its facilities will be a 35-stage film studio and a theme park expected to attract 10 million tourists annually.
Changchun, a city of more than seven million people, in what was once Manchuria, is closer to Vladivostok in Russia and to the North Korean border than it is to Beijing. Historically, it is a city that was built on railways and car manufacturing, but it also boasts film industry connections that go back to the time of Japanese occupation and the Manchukuo Film Association. The Changchun Film Studio operates...
- 9/11/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Chinese movie “Double World” will forgo a theatrical premiere in favor of a simultaneous online debut on Netflix and China’s streaming service iQiyi.
The news comes as China’s cinemas have yet to offer a timeline for reopening despite nearly six months of closures.
The film will stream via iQiyi in China on July 24. It will debut on Netflix, which is blocked in China, for all the other territories the platform operates in on July 25, the company confirmed Wednesday to Variety.
Made on a budget of around $43 million (RMB300 million) and comprised of 80% special effects, “Double World” will be the fifth most expensive new movie to ever premiere on iQiyi’s premium video on demand (PVOD) service, which launched in January as coronavirus took off.
Shifting to an online release “will provide some relief to the struggling production company in the nick of time, and it will also help...
The news comes as China’s cinemas have yet to offer a timeline for reopening despite nearly six months of closures.
The film will stream via iQiyi in China on July 24. It will debut on Netflix, which is blocked in China, for all the other territories the platform operates in on July 25, the company confirmed Wednesday to Variety.
Made on a budget of around $43 million (RMB300 million) and comprised of 80% special effects, “Double World” will be the fifth most expensive new movie to ever premiere on iQiyi’s premium video on demand (PVOD) service, which launched in January as coronavirus took off.
Shifting to an online release “will provide some relief to the struggling production company in the nick of time, and it will also help...
- 7/15/2020
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Chinese production firm Aim Media has licensed the North American rights of director Yang Lina’s “Spring Tide” to distributor China Lion. Smart Cinema, the digital venture by former Wanda executive Jack Gao, has also bought the rights to screen the film on its platform in South Korea.
Yang is an independent documentary maker turned feature film director who is making a trilogy of films about women. “Spring Tide” is the second in that series. It tells a story of family dysfunction in which a woman must deal with the competing demands of her daughter and mother as they all live together in a small apartment. Featuring an all-female cast and starring Hao Lei, it debuted in competition at the Shanghai International Film Festival last year.
Aim Media had intended for the film to screen theatrically sometime between March and May, but when the coronavirus shuttered cinemas, it moved the title straight to streaming.
Yang is an independent documentary maker turned feature film director who is making a trilogy of films about women. “Spring Tide” is the second in that series. It tells a story of family dysfunction in which a woman must deal with the competing demands of her daughter and mother as they all live together in a small apartment. Featuring an all-female cast and starring Hao Lei, it debuted in competition at the Shanghai International Film Festival last year.
Aim Media had intended for the film to screen theatrically sometime between March and May, but when the coronavirus shuttered cinemas, it moved the title straight to streaming.
- 7/14/2020
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
I consider movie as the next best thing to travel in getting to know a place, its culture and people. There is so much of China to be seen in the news and the only medium which could take you one step closer is cinema. I should say I was amply rewarded by director Yang Lina’s “Spring Tide”. It got to a point where I started falling in love with the people of a foreign land. I was mesmerised and couldn’t pry my eyes away from the screen for a minute.
“Spring Tide” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Ji Minglan (Elaine jin), her daughter Guo Jinbao (Hao Lei) and granddaughter Guo Wanting (Junxi Qu) all live in a small apartment. Minglan has not been able to forgive her divorced husband from thirty years ago. Jinbao has good memories of her father and attributes the affairs she...
“Spring Tide” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Ji Minglan (Elaine jin), her daughter Guo Jinbao (Hao Lei) and granddaughter Guo Wanting (Junxi Qu) all live in a small apartment. Minglan has not been able to forgive her divorced husband from thirty years ago. Jinbao has good memories of her father and attributes the affairs she...
- 3/13/2020
- by Arun Krishnan
- AsianMoviePulse
Osaka Asian Film Festival is held yearly under the theme of “From Osaka to All of Asia!” We are pleased to announce the line-up of the 15th edition of Oaff.
The number of selected films is 64 in total, the highest number ever for the festival, and they include 14 World Premieres, 12 International Premieres, and 3 Asian Premieres. Films from 23 countries and regions, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Cambodia, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Kazakhstan, Poland, France, Germany, Denmark, Portugal, Italy, the USA, Mexico and Japan, will be screened.
Opening Film
The Garden of Evening Mists
by Tom Shu-yu Lin (Malaysia) Japan Premiere
Closing Film
Kamata Prelude
by Nakagawa Ryutaro, Akiyama Mayu, Yasukawa Yuka, Watanabe Hirobumi (Japan) World Premiere
Competition
This section will present 15 films chosen from films completed on or after 1st October 2018 and unreleased in Japan. The international jurors will choose the winners of the Grand...
The number of selected films is 64 in total, the highest number ever for the festival, and they include 14 World Premieres, 12 International Premieres, and 3 Asian Premieres. Films from 23 countries and regions, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Cambodia, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Kazakhstan, Poland, France, Germany, Denmark, Portugal, Italy, the USA, Mexico and Japan, will be screened.
Opening Film
The Garden of Evening Mists
by Tom Shu-yu Lin (Malaysia) Japan Premiere
Closing Film
Kamata Prelude
by Nakagawa Ryutaro, Akiyama Mayu, Yasukawa Yuka, Watanabe Hirobumi (Japan) World Premiere
Competition
This section will present 15 films chosen from films completed on or after 1st October 2018 and unreleased in Japan. The international jurors will choose the winners of the Grand...
- 2/8/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Director May el-Toukhy tackles a subject that has not yet been explored and is frightening in the possibilities it reveals to us as women assume positions of power and authority. The troublesome specter of exploitive female sexuality is also elaborated upon in the Dutch Oscar submission, ‘Instinct’.
Two highly developed Western European nations, Denmark and The Netherlands, take female sexuality to extremes here in ways we only saw before as men’s terrain with such films as Last Tango in Paris or In the Realm of the Senses.
My initial reaction to both films was a sort of shame, as if somewhere deep inside of me, I understood the impulse that impelled both these women to venture into forbidden zones of action, but wished it had not depicted it so graphically. It would take a psychiatrist to explain the impulse in human nature that makes us enter dangerous sexual territories.
Two highly developed Western European nations, Denmark and The Netherlands, take female sexuality to extremes here in ways we only saw before as men’s terrain with such films as Last Tango in Paris or In the Realm of the Senses.
My initial reaction to both films was a sort of shame, as if somewhere deep inside of me, I understood the impulse that impelled both these women to venture into forbidden zones of action, but wished it had not depicted it so graphically. It would take a psychiatrist to explain the impulse in human nature that makes us enter dangerous sexual territories.
- 12/8/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The Swedish dramedy series is based on Fredrik Backman's novel of the same name. Stockholm-born filmmaker-actor Felix Herngren is working on a new Netflix Original production, entitled Anxious People. Herngren is best known for his successful comedy The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013), which grossed over €44 million worldwide, and the Swedish TV series The Sunny Side, the saga of which was brought to a close by a feature of the same name, The Sunny Side, released in 2017 and directed in tandem with his brother Måns Herngren. Anxious People, penned in its entirety by Camilla Ahlgren, centres on a hostage drama that unfolds during an open house. A failed bank robber locks himself in with an over-enthusiastic real-estate agent, two bitter Ikea addicts, a pregnant woman, a suicidal multi-millionaire and a rabbit. In the end, the robber gives...
- 10/21/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Drama directed by Reza Mirkarimi scooped best film, best director and shared the best actor prize with China’s The Return.
Iranian drama Castle Of Dreams, directed by Reza Mirkarimi, was presented with three of the top awards at this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff), including best feature.
The film, about a father who returns to his children after a long absence, was also awarded best director and the best actor prize (Hamed Saberi Behdad), which was shared with China’s The Return (Chang Feng). Mirkarimi’s credits include Under The Moonlight, which won the Critics Week Grand...
Iranian drama Castle Of Dreams, directed by Reza Mirkarimi, was presented with three of the top awards at this year’s Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff), including best feature.
The film, about a father who returns to his children after a long absence, was also awarded best director and the best actor prize (Hamed Saberi Behdad), which was shared with China’s The Return (Chang Feng). Mirkarimi’s credits include Under The Moonlight, which won the Critics Week Grand...
- 6/24/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
On the evening of June 23, the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival Golden Jubilee Awards Ceremony was held at the Shanghai Grand Theatre.?
22nd Shanghai International Film Festival Awards winner list:
Best Feature Film
?Castle of Dreams? (Iran)
Jury Grand Prix
?Inhale-Exhale? (Georgia/Russia/Sweden)
Best Director
Reza Mirkarimi for ?Castle of Dreams?
Best Actor (joint winners)
Chang Feng for ?The Return? (China) and Hamed Saberi Behdad for ?Castle of Dreams? (Iran)
Best Actress
Salome Demuria for ?Inhale-Exhale? (Georgia/Russia/Sweden)
Best Screenplay?
Aleksander Lungin and Pavel Lungin for ?Brotherhood? (Russia)
Best Cinematography
Jake Pollock for ?Spring Tide? (China)
Outstanding Artistic Achievement
?Trees Under the Sun? (India)
Best Animation Film
?Ride Your Wave? (Japan)
Best Documentary Film
?Bridge of Time? (Latvia/ Lithuania/ Estonia)
Best Live Action Short Film
?Nowhere To Put? (China)
Best Animated Short Film
?La Noria? (Spain)
The Iranian film "Castle of Dreams" won the Best Film Award and Best Director Award.
22nd Shanghai International Film Festival Awards winner list:
Best Feature Film
?Castle of Dreams? (Iran)
Jury Grand Prix
?Inhale-Exhale? (Georgia/Russia/Sweden)
Best Director
Reza Mirkarimi for ?Castle of Dreams?
Best Actor (joint winners)
Chang Feng for ?The Return? (China) and Hamed Saberi Behdad for ?Castle of Dreams? (Iran)
Best Actress
Salome Demuria for ?Inhale-Exhale? (Georgia/Russia/Sweden)
Best Screenplay?
Aleksander Lungin and Pavel Lungin for ?Brotherhood? (Russia)
Best Cinematography
Jake Pollock for ?Spring Tide? (China)
Outstanding Artistic Achievement
?Trees Under the Sun? (India)
Best Animation Film
?Ride Your Wave? (Japan)
Best Documentary Film
?Bridge of Time? (Latvia/ Lithuania/ Estonia)
Best Live Action Short Film
?Nowhere To Put? (China)
Best Animated Short Film
?La Noria? (Spain)
The Iranian film "Castle of Dreams" won the Best Film Award and Best Director Award.
- 6/24/2019
- GlamSham
China’s leading film festival crowned Iranian drama Castle Of Dreams with three prizes on Sunday evening.
The Shanghai International Film Festival handed Reza Mirkami’s film the Golden Goblet for best film, best director and a joint best actor award for Hamed Saberi Behdad. The familial drama charts the aftermath of a mother’s death.
The unusual bounty comes at a time when the U.S.’s relationship with Iran and China is on the slide. Iran meanwhile has developed a strong bond with China, which is one of its biggest trading partners. During this week’s festival there was also talk of a China-Iran Co-Production Treaty.
Turkey’s Nuri Bilge Ceylan headed this year’s jury, which also gave two prizes to Georgian drama Inhale-Exhale by Dito Tsintsadze. The film scooped the grand jury prize and the best actress award for Salome Demuria.
Chang Feng also shared the...
The Shanghai International Film Festival handed Reza Mirkami’s film the Golden Goblet for best film, best director and a joint best actor award for Hamed Saberi Behdad. The familial drama charts the aftermath of a mother’s death.
The unusual bounty comes at a time when the U.S.’s relationship with Iran and China is on the slide. Iran meanwhile has developed a strong bond with China, which is one of its biggest trading partners. During this week’s festival there was also talk of a China-Iran Co-Production Treaty.
Turkey’s Nuri Bilge Ceylan headed this year’s jury, which also gave two prizes to Georgian drama Inhale-Exhale by Dito Tsintsadze. The film scooped the grand jury prize and the best actress award for Salome Demuria.
Chang Feng also shared the...
- 6/24/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
China’s top film festival showered its highest three honors on the Iranian film “Castle of Dreams,” hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said his administration would on Monday impose “major additional sanctions” on Tehran.
“Castle of Dreams,” a drama about family, separation and keeping one’s promises collected a trio of prizes on Sunday night at the Shanghai International Film Festival. It won the Golden Goblet prize for best film, the best director prize for Reza Mirkarimi, and a shared best actor award for Hamed Saberi Behdad.
The almost unprecedented awards haul comes at a time when analysts say that Beijing and Tehran are likely to develop even closer cooperation as their respective relationships with the U.S. deteriorate. China is Iran’s largest trading partner, and Tehran’s willingness to stand up to U.S. pressure is partially due to ability to fall back on Beijing’s support.
“Castle of Dreams,” a drama about family, separation and keeping one’s promises collected a trio of prizes on Sunday night at the Shanghai International Film Festival. It won the Golden Goblet prize for best film, the best director prize for Reza Mirkarimi, and a shared best actor award for Hamed Saberi Behdad.
The almost unprecedented awards haul comes at a time when analysts say that Beijing and Tehran are likely to develop even closer cooperation as their respective relationships with the U.S. deteriorate. China is Iran’s largest trading partner, and Tehran’s willingness to stand up to U.S. pressure is partially due to ability to fall back on Beijing’s support.
- 6/23/2019
- by Patrick Frater and Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Documentarist turned feature filmmaker Yang Lina gets close, almost uncomfortably close, to a daughter, mother and grandmother who live together with distaste, neediness and emotional blackmail in Spring Tide. Upping the ante on the mother-daughter relationship in her Longing for the Rain, which competed at Rotterdam, Yang examines three generations of women who also represent different eras of Chinese history.
While it’s fascinating to eavesdrop on family secrets and see the sparks flying, the film’s complete lack of structure slows it down, and a two-hour series of incidents arrives at no satisfying end point. Spring Tide looks earmarked for festival screenings ...
While it’s fascinating to eavesdrop on family secrets and see the sparks flying, the film’s complete lack of structure slows it down, and a two-hour series of incidents arrives at no satisfying end point. Spring Tide looks earmarked for festival screenings ...
- 6/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Documentarist turned feature filmmaker Yang Lina gets close, almost uncomfortably close, to a daughter, mother and grandmother who live together with distaste, neediness and emotional blackmail in Spring Tide. Upping the ante on the mother-daughter relationship in her Longing for the Rain, which competed at Rotterdam, Yang examines three generations of women who also represent different eras of Chinese history.
While it’s fascinating to eavesdrop on family secrets and see the sparks flying, the film’s complete lack of structure slows it down, and a two-hour series of incidents arrives at no satisfying end point. Spring Tide looks earmarked for festival screenings ...
While it’s fascinating to eavesdrop on family secrets and see the sparks flying, the film’s complete lack of structure slows it down, and a two-hour series of incidents arrives at no satisfying end point. Spring Tide looks earmarked for festival screenings ...
- 6/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Shanghai International Film Festival unveiled a competition lineup Tuesday that features entries from countries ranging from Indonesia to Estonia – but not the U.S., which is engaged in an increasingly bitter trade war with China.
The government-affiliated festival, which runs June 15-24, will open with the premieres of two Chinese films: Huayi Bros.’ patriotic World War II epic “The Eight Hundred,” directed by Guan Hu, and “Chuanyue Shikong de Huhuan” by Zhang Jiarui, according to Chinese website Mtime. Actor Wu Jing – whose “Wolf Warrior II” and “Wandering Earth” are the top two earning films in Chinese film history – will be the festival’s ambassador.
Fifteen films from around the world will vie for the Golden Goblet Award in the main competition. Notable among them are “Many Happy Returns,” a new title directed by Germany-based Uruguayan filmmaker Carlos Morelli and produced by Germany’s Weydemann Brothers, and “Chicuarotes,” Gael Garcia...
The government-affiliated festival, which runs June 15-24, will open with the premieres of two Chinese films: Huayi Bros.’ patriotic World War II epic “The Eight Hundred,” directed by Guan Hu, and “Chuanyue Shikong de Huhuan” by Zhang Jiarui, according to Chinese website Mtime. Actor Wu Jing – whose “Wolf Warrior II” and “Wandering Earth” are the top two earning films in Chinese film history – will be the festival’s ambassador.
Fifteen films from around the world will vie for the Golden Goblet Award in the main competition. Notable among them are “Many Happy Returns,” a new title directed by Germany-based Uruguayan filmmaker Carlos Morelli and produced by Germany’s Weydemann Brothers, and “Chicuarotes,” Gael Garcia...
- 6/4/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
While the international media industry grapples with the tectonic shifts triggered by the growing proliferation of streaming services, Zdf Enterprises is riding the wave of change by seizing opportunities, creating new business models and forging partnerships with the likes of Netflix and other digital players.
As the world sales, licensing and co-production arm of German broadcaster Zdf, Zdfe has long established itself as an independent player in both domestic and global markets and it is quickly adapting to the sector’s new reality.
The company has also expanded its sales and production operations through key acquisitions as part of its overall growth strategy.
“We have tried to embrace the changes, the disruption that these platforms have brought to the market through digitization and streaming possibilities, to recognize the opportunities rather than the threat,” Zdfe President and CEO Fred Burcksen tells Variety. “We have so far been able to profit from that.
As the world sales, licensing and co-production arm of German broadcaster Zdf, Zdfe has long established itself as an independent player in both domestic and global markets and it is quickly adapting to the sector’s new reality.
The company has also expanded its sales and production operations through key acquisitions as part of its overall growth strategy.
“We have tried to embrace the changes, the disruption that these platforms have brought to the market through digitization and streaming possibilities, to recognize the opportunities rather than the threat,” Zdfe President and CEO Fred Burcksen tells Variety. “We have so far been able to profit from that.
- 4/8/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
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