Huasheng Online News on April 12 (Reporter Deng Zhengke) On April 11, the Beijing International Film Festival announced that this year’s “Beijing Screening” section has specially set up a “Premiere” unit. Focusing on the latest masterpieces from around the world, the audience can enjoy these exciting and heavyweight works on the big screen for the first time. The film " departs from " jointly produced by Xiaoxiang Film Group, China Academy of Art, and Hunan Dangran Pictures was shortlisted.
In terms of planning and selection of films, "Beijing Screening" implements the basic idea of selecting outstanding films at home and abroad, and adds a number of innovative units and special planning themes based on the continuation of the previous unit settings, striving to provide the audience with novel, diverse, and Three-dimensional screening program. Among them, the "Premiere" section creates a stage for new Chinese and foreign films that are expected to enter the Chinese film market, providing movie fans with the opportunity to meet filmmakers face to face.
The movie "Departure" focuses on China in 1917, where warlords were fighting and the situation was turbulent. Mao Zedong, who was studying at the Hunan Provincial First Normal School at the time, walked with his senior Xiao Zisheng through five counties in Hunan to inspect the people's sentiments and explore the "big source" of saving the country and the people. Along the way, Mao Zedong saw all kinds of things in the world. This "departure" is of great significance to Mao Zedong and Chinese history.
This film is the new work of Liu Zhihai, director of the Tiantan Award-winning film " Above the Clouds ". It has an extremely realistic grasp of historical details and continues the visual exploration of "Above the Clouds", once again achieving stunning artistic effects.
Beijing International Film Festival was founded in 2011. It is a large-scale international film event hosted by the Beijing Municipal People's Government and China Central Radio and Television under the guidance of the State Film Administration. With the theme of "sharing resources and win-win future", the film festival aims to bring together the world's outstanding film achievements, enhance international film exchanges and cooperation, promote cross-regional and cross-cultural film dissemination, and realize cross-cultural cooperation between filmmakers and film capital. Expanding the international communication space of domestic films and promoting the "going out" of Chinese films are key cultural activities for Beijing to build a world city and become the capital of film and television in the East.
