List of major film festivals in the world including Cannes

　　Waiting for a long time, Chinese films

　　The International Film Festival, which has been delayed due to the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, has recently returned. The Cannes International Film Festival and the Udine Far East Film Festival in Italy have successively exposed the latest film list. Among them, what excites Chinese fans is the presence of many Chinese-language movies in these lists. Although they are still unable to meet the audience at the moment, even the title and synopsis have excited fans who have been separated from the screen for more than 100 days.

　　Shandong Business Daily · Subao News reporter Zhu Demeng

　　Take over

　　As the most influential and top international film festival in the world today, the Cannes International Film Festival, one of the international category A film festivals, attracts the attention of filmmakers and fans from all over the world every year. This year, the Cannes International Film Festival, which has been held for 72 times, encountered a new crown pneumonia epidemic. It is impossible to hold screenings and awards offline as in previous years. For this reason, the 73rd Cannes International Film Festival decided to host a different film festival-no Golden Palm Awards, no traditional units, and only selected a "Cannes 2020" official film list. A total of 56 films were selected for this official list, selected from 2,067 films from 147 countries and regions. It is reported that this is also the first time that the number of films registered in the history of Cannes has exceeded 2,000. Thierry Fumao, artistic director of the Cannes Film Festival, said that no screenings will be held in Cannes this year, and the list of selected films announced will be labeled "Cannes 2020".

　　The official list of "Cannes 2020" is announced. For Chinese fans, the biggest surprise is the two Chinese-language movies that appear on the list. One is a film "Seven Band" that has assembled seven famous Hong Kong directors, and the other is a new film "Wild Horses" divided by the post-90s director Wei Shujun.

　　The film "Seven Band" is a short film set directed by 7 directors, Du Qifeng, Xu Ke, Xu Anhua, Lin Lingdong, Tan Jiaming, Hong Jinbao and Yuan Heping. The original name of the film was "Eight and a Half". Director Wu Yusen originally planned to participate in it, but he resigned due to physical reasons and the film was renamed accordingly. Lin Lingdong, one of the directors, passed away at the end of December 2018. The film directed by him is a work that was completed during his lifetime.

　　Commemorative meaning

　　It is reported that the idea of ​​the film comes from the experience of Du Qifeng and the other six directors, and the purpose is to pay tribute to Hong Kong films. The seven directors have been responsible for one era since the 1950s, recording different stories of those eras. The film was filmed in tribute to film movies. After the film was selected in Cannes, Du Qifeng once said that the "Seven Band" finalist has an encouraging effect. This is the result of their joint efforts with the late friend Lin Lingdong, which is commemorative.

　　However, as to when the film will be released in China, it is not yet known.

　　The post-90s director Wei Shujun was shortlisted for the 71st Cannes Short Film Competition in 2018 with the short film "Yanbian Boys" and won a special mention award. The new film "Wild Horse Split Mane" is a long film feature of Wei Shujun, starring Zhou You and Zheng Yingchen, and tells that college student A Kun wants to go out before graduating. After obtaining a driver's license, he bought a Cherokee from a car dealer at a low price. I thought it would bring new possibilities to life, giving him the ideal senior life, but the fact was that he took him to another intersection in life. The successive setbacks made him caught off guard and also made him taste the price of growth.

　　Explore human nature

　　Earlier this month, the 21st Jeonju International Film Festival also announced the winners of international competitions. As one of the most important pioneering film festivals in Asia, the Jeonju Film Festival has a large number of Chinese films selected every year. In this year's list of international competitions, short film competitions, world film screenings, midnight screenings and many other units, there are "Return to the South" directed by Gao Ming, "A Trophy Floating on the Sea" directed by Ju Anqi, and directed by Chen Zheyi. Eight Chinese-language films including "Tropical Rain" and "Southern Station Party" directed by Diao Yinan were shortlisted.

　　Affected by the epidemic this year, the film festival adopts both online and offline screening modes. It is reported that this is also the first Asian International Film Festival to recover under the haze of the epidemic. It is worth mentioning that this year's film festival, the first feature film directed by Gao Ming, "Return to the South" won the highest first prize and a 20 million won prize. Because he couldn’t come to the film festival to receive the award, Gao Ming specially recorded the VCR testimony for the award ceremony. He said: “When the world is still shrouded in the sadness of the epidemic, the light of the film makes us feel warm and powerful. I hope, Cinemas around the world are opening as soon as possible, let us embrace the screen again."

　　"Back to the South" is the first exploration of director Gao Ming in the field of drama after the documentary "Pork Ribs". The film premiered on the 28th of this year at the 49th Rotterdam International Film Festival as the finalist of the "Bright Future" unit. In the film, the director describes the psychological ups and downs and interpersonal relationships of people in special dilemmas through the human texture of the southern cities, and captures the private feelings of the dark or thin in urban life. Director Gao Ming once explained the original intention of shooting this film: "Returning to the South is a unique weather phenomenon in the South. At the turn of spring and summer, the heating and cooling flows are intertwined, a large amount of water vapor condenses in the air, and thousands of tears are the most uncomfortable in a year. God. I want to borrow such a weather phenomenon to tell the story of the emotional interweaving of two men and two women. Everyone has two sides of human nature, and everyone has a complicated life. Between the two sides of human nature and the complex life is What? I want to use the camera to touch the trivialness of the vague zone, the pains of words and words, the pain of wanting to fly but fall down. In the wet season in the south, find a possible way for the life trapped by fatigue ."

　　Good movies constantly

　　In addition, in Europe, the Udine Far East Film Festival in Italy also announced the screening list on June 5, "Ye Wen 4", "Chinese Captain", "Perpetrator, Victim", "My Boxing Boyfriend", "Freak", etc. Many Chinese movies appeared in the film list. The 2019 popular movie "Youth of the Youth" is the closing film of this festival.

　　After the release of the film list, Ji Zhuqing, the director of the film "Injurers, Victims", and starring Huang Lu, specially posted on Weibo to thank the production team. Huang Lu said that although the originally planned trip to Italy was not completed as scheduled, it was still an honor to be able to meet with you online to discuss global topics.

　　Currently, the global virtual film festival "We Are One: A Global Film Festival" in cooperation between Youtube and Tribeca is being screened. The festival film list includes director Xin Yukun's masterpiece "Cracked Silent", Li Shaohong's movie "Ma Ge is the City" and Xu Xinxian's debut "Bone Girl". Lang Ping's documentary "Iron Hammer" directed by Chen Chong was officially staged on June 7, telling the career of legendary female volleyball player Lang Ping.