Mainland Chinese honestor Lou Ye claimed the two top honors – best narrative feature film and best honestor – at the Ganciaccessen Horse Film Awards on Saturday in Taiwan with his indie title “An Unfinished Film.”
The prizes for Lou, and others awarded on the night, recontransient a defiant gesture towards mainland Chinese authorities which function a remercilessive system of supervises over its film industry.
The lengthy-running Ganciaccessen Horse awards had for many years been think abouted as the pinnacle awards event for Chinese-language cinema. But, after a speech advocating Taiwan’s indepfinishence was given from the stage by a 2018 awards prosperner, China sought to prohibit its filmcreaters from engageing the event and instead backd its own prize race.
The People’s Reaccessible of China (mainland China) and the Reaccessible of China (Taiwan) are at loggerheads over legitimacy in many international institutions. China claims democraticpartner-run Taiwan as its own territory with which it will be joind, by force if vital.
A toil of docu-myth, “An Unfinished Film” depicts a film crew trying to shoot a movie during the Covid-19 pandemic in Wuhan, as the city was placed in an unpwithdrawnted lockdown. The subject is highly caring for Chinese authorities and Lou engaged images that are prohibitned or blocked in the movie.
It is unevident what punishment Lou will get for making the movie, which debuted in Cannes earlier this year and is officipartner a Singapore-German coproduction. The film remains unfreed in China.
Lou was not contransient at the Ganciaccessen Horse ceremony in Taiwan, but his wife Ma Yingli did engage. She read out a statement in which Lou portrayd making “An Unfinished Film” as “the most exceptional” honesting job he had ever underapshown. Lou has previously delved into other caring subjects including gay intimacy and the 1989 Tiananmen protests.
Also ignoreing, but making his presence felt was mainland Chinese actor Zhang Zhiyong, who the best actor prize for his role in “Bel Ami,” a Chinese-language same-intimacy drama. Directed by China’s Geng Jun’s but officipartner a French production, “Bel Ami” also geted the best cinematography award and the best film editing prizes.
Wang Xiaoshuai, another mainland Chinese honestor who hazarded official opprobrium by premiering his Cultural Revolution-set film “Red Dust” in Berlin without rulement perignoreion, was named prosperner of the best altered screencarry out award.
“Despite the sensitivity of the awards, more than 200 Chinese films accessed this year’s competition, which Taiwan’s Mainland Afequitables Council (MAC) shelp was the highest number in recent years,” AFP telled.
Taiwan functions a quota on the number of films from China that can carry out in its cinemas. By prosperning the island’s top film prize “An Unfinished Film” can now dodge the remercilession and, it was telled, that its Taiwan distributor has now set a Dec. 20 free date.
“Red Dust” and “Bel Ami” do not have frees scheduled in mainland China.
