1905 Film News On October 12, the film "Where Is Home", directed by cutting-edge director Liu Ze, produced by Sun Jingyong, and supervised by Xu Zhipeng, had its world premiere at the 4th Pingyao International Film Festival and held a post-screening exchange. . Director Liu Ze, producer Sun Jingyong, starring Tang Xiaoran, editing director Guo Hengqi, and original novel author Li Yanrong participated in the post-screening exchange. Pingyao International Film Festival selected filmmaker Wu Jueren hosted the post-screening.
| Director Liu Ze |
The movie "Where Is Home" tells the ordinary story of the protagonist in summer. The film revolves around the elderly suffering from Alzheimer's disease. The family becomes the protagonist of the movie. As the elderly's condition deteriorates, the emphasis on the characters shows different attitudes under the influence of different identities and perspectives. Director Liu Ze said, “As China’s aging population has entered a period of rapid development, the population of Alzheimer’s patients has reached tens of millions, and the trend is becoming more and more younger. What is shown in It is the mutual benefit for the patient, but it is the dilemma of nursing. What I want to discuss is the conflict and contradiction between filial piety and tenderness and family burden."
"Come is Home" as the fourth Pingyao International Film Festival in 2020 [From Depart from Shanxi] The opening video of the unit. Director Liu Ze and other creators attended the scene. The film was titled "Another Summer" in the WIP section of the 3rd Pingyao International Film Festival, and won the TID Zhijiezhuangke Shanxi Production Award in the 3rd Pingyao International Film Festival in 2019. After being mentioned about the problem of changing the title, director Liu Ze explained on the spot, "Because it is more like a youth film, it was renamed "Where is the Way Home".'Parents are here, there is still a place in life. Parents go, life is only a way back.' Because of this sentence I want to change to this title."
has been the culmination of 15 years of director Liu Ze’s feelings. The script of "Where Is Home" has been revised and improved many times, and many production links have been repeatedly scrutinized, from director, screenwriter, and actors A lot of effort has been put into the production side. The film combines the hot social issues of the elderly with Alzheimer's disease, closely follows the pulse of the era of caring for the elderly, builds the rhythm of the story of the people’s life, highlights the warm and loving theme, shows the true fate of the little people and ordinary families, from the art form Look for emotional resonance with the main group watching movies. Not only the plot is ups and downs and moving, it is also an artistic portrayal and true epitome of human ethics and social hot spots.
"Where is the Way Home" is the first cinematic work directed by Liu Ze. He was born in Yuncheng, Shanxi in 1983, and started film creation during college. In 2006, the screenwriter and director of the short film "Shan Na Tou" won the Quark Plot Encouragement Award of the 14th Beijing University Film Festival, filmed and produced the feature documentary "Three Masters" in 2013-2017, and produced the feature documentary film in 2017-2018 "Dopamine" was shortlisted for the documentary unit of the 3rd Inner Mongolia Youth Film Week. In 2019, the screenwriter and director of the feature film "Where is Home" (formerly known as "Another Summer").
is a hot work of the 4th Pingyao International Film Festival starting from Shanxi. After the premiere, "Where is the Way Home" received rave reviews from the audience. Wei Xuan, a teacher at Shanxi Institute of Business and Technology, said, “I’m very happy to see such a sincere Shanxi movie like "Where is the Way Home", with solid image language, detailed design for the reality of life, and the joy and sorrow of life in the most authentic appearance. It’s on the screen.” The film critic Twenty-Two Island Owner said that the choices of multiple characters in the film in the face of difficulties reflect different outlooks on life. Most of us still have a strong sense of powerlessness like the protagonist. In recent years, Pingyao's film from Shanxi has been a good work, and the director deserves attention.
It is reported that "Where is the Way Home" is adapted from the novelette "Waiting" by Li Yanrong, an up-and-coming writer in Shanxi. It is a collaboration between literature and film, and a combination of novels, scripts and movies. Infused Shanxi literature with a ray of sunshine, and it was also the gorgeous appearance of the Shanxi film and television team. Recently, "Where is Home" has been selected for several international film festivals, including the 15th Cyprus International Film Festival, and also shortlisted for the new director competition of the 44th Brazil São Paulo International Film Festival in 2020.
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