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My Way of Farewell

In order to face his 30th birthday, the author of the film began to implement a long-planned plan for the Dragon Boat Festival, bringing a dog, a computer, some vegetables and eggs to the dilapidated yard on the north side of the mountain in Pingyao County, where he will live alone for more than a dozen. Day and night, organize and pack the first half of my life, recall and think, talk with the self in the device, and smoke, silence, think or sing with the middle-aged neurotic who comes to ask for cigarettes every day.

My Way of Farewell

NR 2019
Nostalgia

In March and April of 2019, Zeng Dekuang and I spent more than 20 days traveling. Starting from the Wanzhou Sanhe Prison in Chongqing where his close friend Qin Yong was serving his sentence, we went to several places where he lived for a long time and lived in his childhood. The mountain villages in Wugang, Hunan, the city of Ningxiang where he lived in his youth, the county town of Zhongxian County in Chongqing, where he has been living for many years after graduation, and Daling Mountain in the Golden Town of Zhongxian County, and the ancient city of Phoenix where his wife and daughter now live. He Lu, an old friend, also went around for ten days, and De Kuang called it a homecoming trip.

Nostalgia

NR 2019
Xiao Zhen Wei Guang

A documentary about small-town youth in Kunshan. They are lonely, worn down, helpless, deceived, marked by searing imprints. They keep trying, striving, struggling, and refusing to give in, their faint light rising like a pillar. Through multiple dimensions and layers, the film deconstructs this group of small-town young people who have come to the city for work: why they came, their work experiences, emotional lives, future plans, and hopes. Note: This film strictly records and objectively presents the lives of these young people. Due to the particularity of the subjects and technical limitations, the image quality and overall texture of the film are relatively rough.

Xiao Zhen Wei Guang

NR 2019
Impossible Dream

Impossible dream is made with an idea of inter-cutting car commercials to discuss cultural surfaces and their meanings created by the media. By combining clips grabbed from different car commercials as well as adding my own compositions, I created an absurd fantasy with ambiguous narration as our self-reflection, to examine meanings conveyed by the media. The background music is grabbed from a car commercial which uses the song, The Impossible Dream, originally composed by Mitch Leigh & Joe Darion.

Impossible Dream

NR 2019
Lost on the Branch

The affection between father and son has always been a kind of emotion that is difficult to express. Whether it is father to son or son to father, emotional expressions are mostly interpreted by practical actions rather than words. When the father was a child, the father protected his son, and the son relied on the father. It was the relationship between middle-aged people and children. As the age grew, the son grew up, and the father gradually grew old. The son became rebellious and the father began to weaken. Powerless, became dependent on his son. And life also undergoes a dramatic reincarnation at this time. When the son does not yet fully understand the father, he sometimes thinks that the father is a burden, and if the father suffers from Alzheimer's at this time, he will become like a child.

Lost on the Branch

NR 2019
Best Director

Zhang and Shanni are a couple. They live in Beijing and both are successful. Zhang is a director of some renown whose film has just won a prize abroad. Shanni is a fashion magazine photographer from Guangdong. They planned to get a marriage certificate quickly and start a wedding trip. However, their parents are not keen on the idea and insist on a traditional Chinese wedding. They force the couple to organize a traditional ceremony. Everyone comes to Zhang's hometown of Shanxi, and a family hell begins. Differences of opinion between the young couple and the parents, cultural differences between the two families, and then Zhang's ex-girlfriend turns up - A truly black comedy.

Best Director

NR 2019
My Wedding Album

Wedding photos are the development of emotions. The unique cultural etiquette and true temperament of the Chinese society are all recorded in the wedding photos. It makes everyone believe that this is a dream factory that can exchange money for concrete happiness. Before entering into marriage, the prince and princess are looking forward to a happy and happy love and future. On the other side, the couple who are already in marriage, what they hear is a frank conversation between them. Looking back at the photo that symbolizes the marriage contract, what kind of form does the "intimacy", "happiness", or "love" between the two transform into?

My Wedding Album

NR 2019
The First Line of China

Haunted by post-socialist nostalgia, 25-year-old director Hanwen Zhang returns to the cement-factory town in northeast China in which he was born and raised. The town’s official name is Sheep Pen Town, in the Shuangyang District of Changchun City, Jilin Province. People don’t really use this name, but currently refer to it as ‘the cement factory’. According to oral history, the town was known in the 1990s as ‘the first line of China’. Throughout the film, the director explores this clue to reveal a half-buried story. The town was a product of China’s rapid and radical industrialisation in the 1980s, having been constructed simultaneously with a state-owned cement factory to house the workers who migrated there. With a subtle irony and a nuanced but brave approach, Hanwen explores the history of his country and its ideology through the lenses of his own family and hometown.

The First Line of China

NR 2019
Geobelief: Lord of the Soil

Director Xiong Zaixia notes: "A 'she' (commune) is the smallest administrative unit since the Tang Dynasty. She Gong is also known as Soil-Ground or Lord of the Soil. I have found that I captured and edited Soil-Grounds in my video works unconsciously. That made me recall something. So I returned to my hometown Shunde, Guangdong several times to shoot and record over 60 Lords of the Soil in Lunjiao Town’s eastern and western villages. I want to explore how such a traditional Chinese folk belief roots geographically, becomes embedded in one’s memory, and shapes a population’s behavior."

Geobelief: Lord of the Soil

NR 2019
Three Men Who Made A Movie Named Guanyin Also Make Movies Also Made A Movie

In Hainan, there is a Guanyin Temple. The Guanyin in the temple decided to make a movie based on her personal experience. Two friends and I planned to make a documentary Guanyin Also Make Movies built from this event. Gradually, the act of us shooting the documentary, starting to echo with the act of Guanyin making the movie. To every single person, the image has its own unique significance. Therefore, we also turned the camera to ourselves, deriving Three Men Who Made a Movie Named Guanyin Also Make Movies Also Made a Movie from Guanyin Also Make Movies.

Three Men Who Made A Movie Named Guanyin Also Make Movies Also Made A Movie

NR 2019
只对你钟情

Lu Bi and Ye Xiaolu are two people who have never seen each other. They have not seen them for many years. After graduating from college, they happened to join the work of the Blue Sky Group. Lu Bi, with his talents and the appreciation of his daughter, Xiao Min, quickly took office. The head of the sales department of the company, Lu Bi, who likes Ye Xiaolu, always looks for opportunities to show off to Ye Xiao. Ye Xiaolu, who likes Lu Bi, finds that Xiao Min likes Lu Bi, Ye Xiaoluo’s career development for Lu Bi. Deliberately avoiding Lu Bi. The love entanglement of the three of them began.

只对你钟情

NR 2019