is still a few days away from the end of Pingyao Film Festival, the award ceremony of the 3rd Pingyao International Film Festival was held in advance yesterday.
At last night's "Night of Honor" in Pingyao, the results of Roberto Rossellini's Honor, Feimu's Honor, Youth Judge's Honor, and Fan Ying's Choice Honor were announced.
Of course, among these, what I am most concerned about and want to promote is our fandom's choice of honor (after all, it is an award I participated in and founded).
Fanying Choice Honor is a parallel award for film critics focusing on the Chinese Film Festival and established by the cooperation between Fanying Spirit Appreciation and Pingyao Film Festival, aiming to create the "Fabici Award" in the Chinese film industry.
And this year's Fan Movie Choice honor was awarded to the Chinese film "Tropical Rain" from Singapore.
Regarding the Honor of Fan Ying, we have introduced it many times before.
Like Fei Mu Honor, the focus of Fan Ying Choice Honor is also new works in Chinese movies.
At this Pingyao Film Festival, Fanying Spirit Award appointed three film critics Jia Xuanning, Wei Xidi, and Zheng Binghong to form a jury. The Chinese debut or the first of the three units of the Pingyao Film Festival: Hidden Dragon, Crouching Tiger, and Genre Among the two films, one Chinese film that is most concerned and loved by film critics is selected and awarded.
Wei Xidi (left), Jia Xuanning (middle), and Zheng Binghong (right), members of the jury for the honor of
, jointly announced the award-winning film as "Tropical Rain"
Fans Selection Honor Jury believes:
"Tropical Rain" With a very mature lens language, it shows a powerful view of the complexity of Singapore and Malaysia's social issues.
The plight of women, immigration issues, and Singapore's contempt for Chinese education, the narrative levels in the film are clear and integrated. Director
continues the creative context of the previous family sketches, showing a relatively rare image control power among young generation directors in the entire Chinese-speaking world. At the
awards scene, Chen Zheyi took over the award from the mainland director Huo Meng. The
film was recognized, and Chen Zheyi was deeply moved. He said: "We spent a lot of time creating this film. Thank you very much for seeing many details and layers." At the same time, he said that he expects more audiences to see this. Works.
"Tropical Rain" director Chen Zheyi
"Tropical Rain" is the second feature film work of Singapore director Chen Zheyi.
After watching this film at the Pingyao Film Festival, everyone joked that "Tropical Rain" could be regarded as the sequel to Chen Zheyi's debut "Parents Are Not Home".
Like "Parents Are Not Home" six years ago, Chen Zheyi continues to tell the story of Singapore's middle class in "Tropical Rain". The two leading actors Yang Yanyan and Xu Jiale changed from mother and son in "Parents Are Not Home" to teachers and students in "Tropical Rain." The difference between
is that Chen Zheyi chose to express from a female perspective this time. Yang Yanyan, a Chinese teacher, A Ling, who is middle-aged, inevitably has to deal with the pressures of family and work.
She and her husband (played by Li Mingshun) have been married for many years and tried countless times, but they are still unable to have children. In the school, the Chinese classes that are not taken seriously, and the students who don't care about Chinese, make Ah Ling feel deeply powerless.
During the long tropical rainy season, an adolescent boy (played by Xu Jiale) broke into Ah Ling's life. The husband who often did not go home was unsurprisingly derailed, and the paralyzed father-in-law (played by Yang Shibin) passed away.
And when the rainy season passed, Aling's life seemed to have a new beginning.
The stills of "Tropical Rain"
correspond to the life of A Ling's chicken feathers is the blank space in the narrative of "Tropical Rain". The restraint of the film actually brings out the complexity and heaviness of real life. At the same time, the mature video style displayed in "Tropical Rain" also reflects Chen Zheyi's increasingly mature director style.
"Tropical Rain" was able to stand out from the nine Chinese debuts and the second one screened at this Pingyao Film Festival, and it is indeed well deserved to win the honor of the movie selection.
We also hope that this movie can be seen by more audiences.
"Tropical Rain" stills
Coincidentally, the honorary guest of the fans' choice is director Huo Meng. His "Crossing the Pass" is also the annual recommended movie of the 4th fans' spirit awards in 2019.
Since its establishment in 2015,has always rooted in Chinese-language movies and continues to pay attention to the works of young and middle-aged Chinese directors.
's award for the selection of fans is also a brand new attempt by the fans to continue to encourage and support the creation of Chinese-language films for young and middle-aged people.
looks forward to more film festivals in the future to join hands with the fans of the spirit of the fans, to launch a truly Chinese film critic Fabian, so that young people's works will have more stages.
is also looking forward to the next annual award for the spirit of fans. At
, there will be a new batch of young and middle-aged directors' works that will enter everyone's attention, and the Fanying Spirit Appreciation will continue to discover, support, and encourage those outstanding Chinese newcomers and new works.
hopes that in the future, Fanying Spirit Appreciation can become a witness and participant in the transformation of Chinese film.
Let's work hard together!
2019 The 3rd Pingyao International Film Festival Fans Choice Honor
Candidate Film List
"Night and Night" Single Cycle
"Girl Jiahe" Summer is the Coldest Season
"Tropical Rain" Wet Season (winning)
"Under the Sun" Wisdom Tooth
"A Trophy On The Sea
" A Trophy On The Sea
"Nineteen Years of Pursuing the Murder" Bloody Daisy
"Sweet Potato Pouring Rice" Koali & Rice
"Six Desires" Summer of Changsha
"Walking in Darkness of the Zhou Army" Walking in Darkness
Last , Let’s take a look at the complete list of winners of this year’s Pingyao Film Festival
2019 Third Pingyao International Film Festival Honor
Roberto Rossellini Honor
Best film: "High fever" (Brazil/France/Germany)
Best Director: Cesar Diaz-"Our Mother" (Belgium/France)
Jury Honor: "Under the Sun" (China)
Film "High Fever" director Maya Da-Lin receives Roberto Rossellini honor Best Picture Award
Liang Ming's "Under the Sun" won Roberto Rossellini's jury honors
Feimu honors
Best Picture: "Tropical Rain" (Singapore)
Best Director: Liang Ming -"Under the Sun" (China)
Best Actor: Wang Xuebing-"A Trophy Floating on the Sea" (China)
Best Actress: Yang Yanyan-"Tropical Rain" (Singapore)
Special recognition: "On the Sea" "Tropical Rain" (China)
"Tropical Rain" directed by Chen Zheyi won the Fei Mu Honorary Best Picture Award
"Under the Sun" Director Liang Ming won Fei Mu Honorary Best Director Award
"Tropical Rain" female star Yang Yanyan won Fei Mu Honorary Best Actress Award
Wang Xuebing won Fei Mu's honor for Best Actor for his performance in "The Trophy Floating on the Sea". Fei Mu's honorary special commendation was also given to the film. The left is the film director. Ju Anqi
Youth Jury Honor : "The Trophy Floating on the Sea" (China)
Fans Choice Honor : "Tropical Rain" (Singapore)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, East-West Exchange Contribution Honor : Zhang Yimou
Chinese Film Overseas contribution honor : Shi Nansheng
Hearing works copyright protection contribution honor : Julie Bertocari
Pingyao International Film Festival Artistic Director Mark Muller (right) presents the filmmaker Shi Nansheng (left) with the honor of Chinese film overseas contribution
