"Our Quartet" shortlisted for Pingyao Film Festival, "Hope Version" poster exposed

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1905 Film Network News Recently, the highly anticipated 4th Pingyao International Film Festival was unveiled, and the theme of this year’s film festival was announced as "Film, never a solitary city". It closely focused on the current situation of the film industry under the new crown pneumonia epidemic and was shortlisted The film list of the main competition unit was also announced. "Our Quartet" was shortlisted for the Hidden Dragon section of the main competition of this Pingyao Film Festival.


Four years of polishing a unique perspective to show the life styles of strangers in the city


"Our Quartet" was filmed for four years. Director Wang Lei focused on Pi Village, less than ten kilometers away from Beijing Capital International Airport, to track and film the living conditions of the four protagonists. The four groups of characters in the film collectively reflect and represent the current situation and mental state of migrant workers in the process of urbanization. The director also said that the situation of the protagonist in the film also represents the epitome of most ordinary people in Chinese cities.


'Our Quartet' shortlisted for Pingyao Film Festival, 'Hope Version' poster exposed - Lujuba
"Our Quartet" official poster


This time the exposed pilot trailer vividly shows the four groups of characters in different stages of their lives, about the real state of going to school, chasing love, dreaming, marriage. In the "Hope Version" poster that was exposed together, the huge planes flying over the village are just like the Pi Village where the protagonists live. Every minute you can see planes from all over the world flying overhead, but they Many people have never taken an airplane. Looking up, the dream is so close but so far away. This may be the essence of our lives, and it is also a metaphor for the true record of this film.


Under the lens of director Wang Lei, everything in Pi Village is simpler and more real. People living here insist on dreams, find love, start a family, and work hard for the next generation. People in Pi Village often say, "A dozen kilometers away is a Beijing, and here is another Beijing, which belongs to them." This is their story, and it is also the story of most of us.


Focus on reality and fully support the new director project


This project won the GZDOC 2017 Documentary Best Plan Award, GZDOC 2017 Documentary Top Ten Plan Award, 2018 CNEX/CCDF Proposal Invitation at the 2017 China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival Proposal Conference Awarded three awards, so it attracted the attention of many people in the industry.


Wanda launched the "Elite+" five-year strategy in 2017, and is committed to discovering and cultivating professionals in the film and television industry to fully promote the industrialization of Chinese films. The project’s first work "Over the Spring" was released in March 2018 and won the industry consensusPraise, and won many domestic and foreign honors such as Fei Mu's Best Film and Fei Mu's Best Actress in Pingyao International Film Festival. "Our Quartet", as the second new director's work of the plan, focuses on realistic themes with a positive attitude, and has won unanimous praise in the industry through its personalized video style and poetic expression.


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