The movie " Snow Leopard " written and directed by Wanma Caidan and starring Jinba, Xiong Ziqi, and Tsai Ding Tashi is officially released today! The film focuses on the hinterland of the 4,000-meter snow-covered plateau. A snow leopard broke into a herdsman's sheep pen and killed nine Jie sheep. The "Snow Leopard Lama" who loves to photograph snow leopards learned about this and led a group of TV reporters to interview and report. Thus unfolding a story of ups and downs between humans and leopards from conflict to reconciliation. The movie is officially released today. Let’s unlock the highlights of the movie together and explore the magnificent poem about life.
Highlight 1: Director Wanma Tseden’s eighth Tibetan-language film is a work of continuation and breakthrough.
The movie "Snow Leopard" is the eighth Tibetan-language film directed by Wanma Tseden. The creative inspiration came from the director’s accidental listening. It tells a true story - on the Tibetan plateau, a snow leopard killed a herdsman's sheep, and everyone had fierce disagreements over "punishment" or "release". This story has always lingered in Wanma Tseden's heart, so he spent three years presenting it on the screen, using images to convey the hidden scenery hidden in his warm eyes. The film continues director Wanma Tseden's realistic narrative style that is close to daily life. At the same time, it breaks the traditional narrative method and uses the contradiction between humans and leopards as the perspective to extend the story of reality and surreality. They may seem unrelated but have inseparable connections. The inner connection leads every audience into the inner world of director Wanma Tseden and feels his care for people and concerns about life issues.
Highlight 2: A picture of Tibetan life from a unique perspective, the interweaving of human nature and spirituality conveys multiple philosophical thoughts
The story of the movie "Snow Leopard" cuts into the hidden aspects of life in Tibetan areas, focusing on an ordinary herdsman family. Due to the intrusion of the uninvited snow leopard, Trapped in the center of a whirlpool of contradictions, the value choices of different characters and different positions interweave the complex competition between humans and snow leopards, tradition and modernity, faith and compassion. Director Wanma Tseden opens up complex connotations in a seemingly simple text framework, allowing the audience to experience people and the world immersively. The angry herdsman brother, the helpless herdsman father, the lama with compassionate beliefs and the reporter who is dedicated to capturing the news. Behind the conflicts and confrontations, the struggle and reconciliation of all the characters are like stitches everywhere, not only cleverly connecting the inner culture of Tibet, but also It shows the depth and subtlety of human nature, adding a long aftertaste to the movie.
Highlight 3: The smart and poetic image presents the warm and compassionate background of the vast snowy area and heals the broad audience
The film was shot in Sanjiangyuan National Wetland Park, Maduo County, Qinghai Province. The filming location is called "Dongetsona Lake" in Tibetan, which means A lake surrounded by a thousand mountains. From "The Silent Mani Stone" to "Snow Leopard", director Wanma Tseden has formed a distinctive image style in his nearly two decades of Tibetan film creation. He is accustomed to focusing his camera on the natural creatures on the vast plateau - aimless sheep, slowly moving clouds, holy and majestic snow-capped mountains... In addition, he also loves to tell about the daily life in this land where interest and seriousness blend. Life, with an introspective attitude, looks at the boundary where modern civilization and border culture continue to merge. As director Wanma Caidan said, I am eager to tell the story of my hometown in my own way, a more realistic hometown blown by the wind. Nowadays, his rough and romantic images are filled with timeless spirituality and poetry. The "windswept Tibet" that director Wanma Tseden understands well heals every audience with a calm and turbulent power.
Highlight 4: Numerous multi-dimensional issues that have won awards at domestic and overseas film festivals have attracted praise from the audience
The film "Snow Leopard" was previously shortlisted for the 80th Venice International Film Festival, and was also screened at the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival, the 17th Asian Film Awards and At the 5th Hainan Island International Film Festival, he successively won the Best Film Award, Best Screenplay Award, Best Cinematography Award and Golden Coconut Award for Best Director. Some overseas media commented on the film and said that the film showed the depth and beauty of Tibetan culture from a unique perspective and raised the relationship between man and nature to a new level.At the national premiere held recently, many industry scholars praised the film. Writer Liang Hong said that the entire film is about the mutual gaze and understanding between heaven, earth and people. Film scholar Wang Xiaolu said with emotion, "I am very happy that director Wanma Tseden's artistic life is still continuing. The long shot at the end of the film will definitely be recorded in film history."
The movie "Snow Leopard" is produced and distributed by China Film Co., Ltd., Beijing Nanji Film Co., Ltd., Beijing Hot Opening Culture Media Co., Ltd., Beijing Bolin Culture Media Co., Ltd., Qinghai Manishi Film Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Niubi Produced by Movies Co., Ltd. and iQiyi Pictures (Beijing) Co., Ltd., starring Jinba, Xiong Ziqi, and Tsai Ding Tashi, it is currently being screened with great acclaim across the country. Go to the theater together to experience the rebirth of all things!
