For the first time since the first international film festival began in 2006, the Chinese festival’s jury has decided not to award a best film prize.
“The aim of the festival is to evoke pioneering work, to discover work that goes beyond and to celebrate work that has left its mark on the future,” said the Cannes Un Certain Regard laureate. Black Dog Directed by Guang Hu.
“Looking at the creative ecology of visions this year, we see more good than outstanding, more stable than groundbreaking. Therefore, the jury has decided to leave the honor of Best Feature Film vacant.”
The festival takes place in Xining, a city located on the Tibetan Plateau.
The Grand Jury Prize went to Chen Yanbin June Voyage Song“The Great Passage,” set in a small town in the mountainous Guizhou province of southwest China, was described by the jury as “sharp-edged and full of strong sensory impact.”
Best Documentary Award I’ll find you Written by Meng Xiao.
Baggio Jean won the Best Director award for his debut film Debriswas inspired by an incident that occurred at a Lunar New Year family reunion dinner he attended in 2022. Jiang is currently a student of film and psychology at Stanford University.
The Best Performance Award went to Huang Jingyi. Fish bones“The Story of a Mother and Daughter” is a film about the relationship between a mother and daughter. It won the Outstanding Production Film award at the 13th Beijing International Film Festival.
Huo Xueying and Zhang Yudi won the Best Screenplay Award. Midsummer’s Voiceis a coming-of-age film about a Peking opera student who enters an important competition, but faces challenges due to a change in his voice.
The Audience Award went to Xu Huijing can not stop And Jiang Yuzhi’s Debris They won in the documentary and drama feature categories, respectively.
can not stop It also won the festival’s First Frame award for best feature on a film by or about Chinese women, for the documentary, which follows three years in the life of China’s popular mixed martial arts world star, Zhang Weili.
