The official film list of the 4th Pingyao International Film Festival announced that the film has never been an isolated city.

The 4th Pingyao International Film Festival finally announced the official film list.

For a film festival, the age of four is undoubtedly still in its infancy. However, although Pingyao International Film Festival is young, it has quickly accumulated a solid reputation base at home and abroad with its professionalism, openness, maturity and excellent film selection quality, leaving a deep and beautiful impression on filmmakers, media and fans.

This year's epidemic has greatly affected the film industry all over the world, and many international film festivals have to be cancelled and postponed. However, director Jia announced the holding time of Pingyao early, which is not only a beautiful expectation, but also an agreement with everyone: when the lights in the cinema light up again, it is also the time for you and me to meet again.

As in previous years, this year's Pingyao International Film Festival still has five units, among which Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a competition unit, which is divided into two categories: foreign films and China films. The "premiere" unit selected some outstanding works that have been shortlisted for other major film festivals. The "Starting from Shanxi" unit always encourages and supports the creation of local films and filmmakers; The "Review" unit chooses to pay tribute to the new Serbian films in the Yugoslav era, and they are all original versions, which is quite powerful.

According to official data, among the 53 films released by five official units, including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Premiere, Starting from Shanxi and Review, 43.4%(23 films) premiered in the world, 88.7%(47 films) premiered in Asia, and the China premiere rate reached 100%. For such a difficult year this year, this is a quite outstanding achievement.

Next, let's take a brief look at the excerpts of this movie in turn.

First of all, the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, although it sounds relatively small, has obvious overall style and characteristics, and most of them are selected by sub-units of other international film festivals. This can also be regarded as a film selection strategy in Pingyao, trying to dig up some unpopular movies and cutting-edge authors at home and abroad and let them be seen by more people.

Among them are Jardat of the Cenozoic unit in Berlin this year, Yukiko's balance of the new wave unit in Busan, House of Ancient Memories by Saint, Elsa of Tribeca, and many films of various units in Venice. Five films were selected for Venice Day alone, as well as Milestone for Horizon and Fantasy Book for Film Review Week.

It is worth mentioning that Ivan Ayre, the director of Milestone, won the best film in the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" section of the second Pingyao International Film Festival. Presumably, the quality of this new film is also expected.

Let's look at the unit "Hidden Dragon", which is the most concerned unit and the competition unit of all Chinese movies.

Among them, we saw some works we had expected before. For example, The Endless, directed and supervised by Jia, gained a high reputation after its premiere in Venice, which is also the premiere of this film in Asia. Another example is "There is no smoke without fire", which was also produced by Director Jia. This is female directors Song Fang's latest work after eight years of rebellion, and it premiered at this year's Berlin International Film Festival.

In addition, there are many surprised faces. The little things that disappeared from the final list last year finally appeared this year. Ning Yuanyuan, the daughter of Bird, a famous director of the sixth generation, was only 2 1 year old when she directed the film. The Chinese-language film Wild Horse with Hairy Hair recommended by Cannes this year, Mom and Seven Days, which was selected as the best film of Venice Day, and Summer in Hannan, which was selected as the new wave unit in Busan, also appeared on the film list with surprises.

Movies such as Divergence, Cafe Yuan Ye, Iberian Party, What's with Royedale, etc., all came out of Pingyao Venture Capital Unit, and now they are all shown at the film festival. It can be seen that although Pingyao is very young, it has actually formed an extremely mature incubation system. Some projects start from here and then come back here, forming a positive creative supply cycle between the film itself and the film festival, which continuously injects fresh impetus into the whole film industry.

Among these China films, the most striking one is undoubtedly the new work Blue Train by Zhang Dalei, director of August. Since winning the Golden Horse Award unexpectedly in August, everyone has expressed strong expectations for Zhang Dalei's next move. Now, after more than two years of preparation, shooting and post-production, this film will finally unveil its mystery.

After watching China's movies, let's take a look at the film list of the "Premiere" unit.

In this unit, three films participated in the main competition held in Berlin this year, namely, All the Dead, The Runaway Woman and I Want to Hide. The latter two won the best director and the best actor at this year's Berlin Film Festival respectively, which is worth looking forward to. In addition, there is Koji Fukada's film version "Symbol of Sincerity", which is one of the "officially recommended" films in Cannes this year.

In addition to these outstanding works of art that have been endorsed by international Class A film festivals, this unit also selected several drama-type films. For example, the Korean film Innocence is a suspense film focusing on reversal, the Russian film Satellite is a combination of sci-fi and horror elements, and the Thief of the Century in Argentina is a crime comedy full of black humor.

In addition, there are several China films in the "Premiere" unit, namely "Accidental Summer", "Fish under the Ice", "Rib" and "Paper Cavalry".

Among them, Rib is a realistic work that pays attention to LGBT people, and it is rarely touched in the context of Chinese movies in Chinese mainland. The other three are world premieres. Director Han Yi's last work "Looking South Childhood" scored as high as 9.4 in Douban. "Fish under the Ice" was shortlisted for the WIP venture capital unit of Shanghai International Film Festival before; Paper Cavalry is adapted from Su Tong's novel Cavalry and Paper. From this point of view, the beginning is not small, but the final quality of the film remains to be seen.

In the "Starting from Shaanxi" unit, there is a documentary film "Swim to the Sea and Turn Blue" directed by Jia, which is also the premiere of the film. In the special exhibition, Li Xiaofeng's new work Calm Down was also selected. This film has been shortlisted in the main competition unit of Shanghai International Film Festival, and it has been scheduled to be released nationwide this year 1 1.6.

Finally, this year's "Review" unit is also a rich light and shadow feast for friends who like to watch classic movies.

From 19 18 to 1929 to Yugoslavia, to the disintegration of Yugoslavia at the end of last century, to Montenegro's independence referendum at the beginning of this century, the name Yugoslavia briefly existed in history for more than 80 years. The well-known Yugoslav film Bridge touched and shocked countless people. Even if you haven't seen it, you must have heard the familiar melody: "Goodbye friends, goodbye friends, goodbye friends ..."

This retrospective exhibition of Restoration selected nine works, including war films, romance films and documentaries, which were born in Yugoslavia in 1960s and 1970s. I believe that these classic old movies will be an excellent window for the audience to understand Yugoslav Serbian society.

In addition to the five units mentioned above, this year's film festival will also show The Party at South Station, which was selected as the main competition unit of Cannes Film Festival by director Yinan Diao last year. Director Yinan Diao will also serve as the young mentor of this Pingyao International Film Festival, providing help and support for outstanding filmmakers.

In addition, this year's honorary contribution award for East-West communication will be awarded to Tian Zhuangzhuang, the fifth-generation director of Chinese mainland after Zhang Yimou last year. So the film festival will also show his spring in the small town.

Having said that, everyone has a preliminary understanding of the screening list of this Pingyao International Film Festival. Although the organizing Committee reminded that "everything is subject to the official film list on the opening day", it still does not rule out that several films will still disappear temporarily. However, in terms of the quality and curatorial level of this film list, Pingyao still surpasses many other film festivals in China in terms of professionalism and independence. In the fourth year alone, Pingyao can harvest a group of loyal fans, and its strength can be seen.

Yesterday, this year's Pingyao released the theme poster of the film festival-"The film has never been an isolated city."

Indeed, at a time when the global war against "epidemic" is still not over, the existence of movies is even more important. In the days when there is no film, we miss its existence; When the door of the cinema opened again, people flocked into the darkness to explore the end of the light beam and experience the profound feelings of complex things. The epidemic tore people apart and experienced difficulties and setbacks. Movies brought people together again to face the unknown and meet challenges together.

The lights are dim and the screen is bright. Let's meet at the cinema!