The 12th Beijing International Film Festival opened in August, and Li Xuejian, Frant Gwo and Jason Wu led the jury.
1905 movie network news On July 28th, the organizing committee of the 12th Beijing International Film Festival held a press conference, announcing that the theme of this year’s film festival was "Uniting with One Heart and Going Forward", and filmmakers will work together to carve an extraordinary development process with new weather and new feelings.
The press conference also announced the list of the "Tiantan Award" jury, serving as the chairman of the jury, and,, and three other foreign directors jointly served as members of the jury. Sixteen Chinese and foreign films, including films produced by Film Channel, films produced by China and starring, were shortlisted for this year’s "Tiantan Award".
It is reported that the 12th Beijing International Film Festival was held in Beijing from August 13th to August 20th, 2022.
1450 films signed up for the "Tiantan Award"
Li Xuejian is the chairman of the jury.
After twelve years, Beijing International Film Festival has become an important force in the world movies.The number of films registered for the 12th "Tiantan Award" worldwide reached 1,450, with a total increase of 63% compared with last year. Among them, 1,193 foreign films came from 88 countries and regions, with rich themes and excellent works.
Among them, Back to Tibet, Grassland at the End of the Sea, Anatolian Leopard, Jenny Hotline, Speed and Love, Mom! Sixteen Chinese and foreign films, such as "The Temple of Heaven Award", were shortlisted.
These short-listed films constitute a splendid and eclectic audio-visual feast, and build a communication bridge for the cooperation and exchange between China and the world films.
The 12th Beijing International Film Festival also invited a number of heavyweight Chinese and foreign guests to form a jury.
The chairman of this year’s "Tiantan Award" jury is China’s famous actor Li Xuejian, and the other six members of the jury are China director Frant Gwo, British director, Argentine director, Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino, China actor Amanda and China director and actor Wu Jing.
Among them, Argentine director lucrecia martel is the chairman of the jury of the 2019 Venice International Film Festival, and her participation in this year’s Beijing International Film Festival is also her first time to participate in the Asian Film Festival. Director Michelangelo Frammartino has just been officially announced as the chairman of the jury of the "Lion of the Future" unit of Venice International Film Festival.
Such a strong jury lineup has also saved enough people’s expectations for Beijing International Film Festival.
The nine main sections are splendid.
Cooperation between Beijing and Hong Kong to Promote the Prosperity and Development of China Films
The Beijing International Film Festival has always stimulated the vitality of the film market with excellent works and high-quality activities, and demonstrated the charm and potential of China films.
This year’s activities in Beijing International Film Festival include the Tiantan Award, the opening ceremony and red carpet ceremony, Beijing screening, Beijing planning and theme forum, Beijing market, film carnival, college student film festival, closing ceremony and award ceremony, and "Movie Plus".
Nearly 100 groups of guests will appear on the red carpet and grand opening ceremony in Starlight Glimmer, lighting up the Yanqi Lake, and giving splendid performances, fully demonstrating Beijing International Film Festival’s unique artistic height and creative depth. Global filmmakers will pay tribute to light and shadow through wonderful programs and tell their unchanging true feelings about movies.
Answering reporters’ questions at the press conference
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland. The Beijing International Film Festival and the Hong Kong International Film Festival have carried out in-depth cooperation. At the opening ceremony, the two film festivals will issue a cooperation agreement to strengthen the training and exchange of young filmmakers between the two places. Filmmakers in the two places will express their confidence and determination in the win-win cooperation between Beijing and Hong Kong, and promote the high-quality development of China films.
On August 20th, the 12th Beijing International Film Festival grandly announced the ten awards of Tiantan Award at the closing ceremony, which ushered in the highlight moment of outstanding filmmakers.
"Beijing Exhibition" brings together more than 100 masterpieces.
For the first time, a "beach screening" was held in the Azur Coast of Qinhuangdao.
Every year in Beijing International Film Festival, fans are invited to a long-awaited light and shadow festival. This year, Beijing International Film Festival’s "Beijing Exhibition" featured more than 100 outstanding Chinese and foreign films, which were shown from August 12 to 21, 2022.
The high-profile finalists for the Temple of Heaven Award and the films for the future will meet the fans at the Beijing screening. In order to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China, the "Special Exhibition: A New Motive for Hong Kong Films" unit specially planned will show the latest restored versions of the latest excellent films and classic films of China and Hong Kong.
Watching movies is the most "romantic thing", and this year’s film festival "Beijing screening" also held a "beach screening" activity in the Azur Coast of Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province.
In addition, the key films to be shown are: the retrospective exhibition of the representative works of Greek movie master, the newly released Japanese high-profile animated work Nautical King in 2022, and the latest digital restoration of the classic "Antoine Five" and other works.
This year, "Beijing International Film Festival on the Cloud" will continue to innovate and upgrade, and let the dream of light and shadow come from the clouds. There are nearly 100 film festivals, and 9 units are set up, including "Special Exhibition Meeting the Top 20", "Special Exhibition Review of the Chairman’s Works of Tiantan Award", "First Perspective", "Argentine Film Week" and "New Network Wave".
"Film Power Forum" offers suggestions and suggestions
"master class" promotes the exchange of filmmakers
Beijing International Film Festival has always been committed to providing practitioners with a platform for exchanging ideas and sharing new knowledge.
This year’s Beijing Planning Theme Forum series is guided by the theme of building a strong film country, helping China’s film industry to develop healthily and with high quality. The "Film Power Forum" focuses on macro-guidance.
The theme of the opening forum is "Striving for a New Journey — Light and shadow keep burning dreams of the future "; The themes of the other two forums are "Exploration, Pursuit and Creation of’ Peak’ Film Works" and "Innovation and Promotion of Film Criticism in the New Era", focusing on the two key topics of film development, and exchanging views on wonderful creation and film criticism. At present, guests attending relevant forums in Beijing International Film Festival include Yu Dong, Gong Yu, Li Weiqiang, Wang Changtian, Wang Jianer and Wang Zhonglei.
The film festival will also hold a master class for two judges, Li Xuejian and Malcolm Clarke, and invite them to share practical experience and cutting-edge ideas from the level of creation and production, and tell about their light and heat for their movie dreams.
Animation videos freeze China culture.
Produced by the Beijing International Film Festival Organizing Committee and produced by CMG’s "Shooting Man" Studio, the animation promo of the 12th Beijing International Film Festival was also officially released.
The main characters of this animated short film are the 12 Chinese zodiac Fuwa, which is shot by a stop-motion animation. Stop-motion animation is one of the oldest and most classic animation types. Every second consists of 12 frames, and each frame needs to be placed and shot 12 times by an animator alone. It is a tribute to the filmmakers to publicize the Beijing International Film Festival in the form of stop-motion animation. It is precisely because of the slow carving of the filmmakers that time slows down and becomes an eternal art.
All the characters, scenes and props in this cartoon are miniature landscapes made according to the size of the real thing. One of the quaint quadrangles is made of mixed materials, and the production cycle is as long as 500 hours. All this is for the ultimate presentation in 30 seconds, which is also the feature of the film.
12 Chinese Zodiac Fuwa
Cartoons show Beijing’s openness and tolerance, simplicity and innovation, endow Beijing’s film culture and market with unique temperament and charm, and also make Beijing International Film Festival unique.
In addition to the animated promotional film that frames China culture, another promotional film of this year’s film festival is also worth looking forward to. The organizing committee invited Li Xuejian,, and starred in it, which will become the first film festival in China to create the main promotional film by using the mode of "great director+famous actor+film level" and will meet fans soon.
The Beijing International Film Festival is a love letter to filmmakers. With the integration of China’s films with the world, Beijing International Film Festival has become a stage where China’s films and the world’s films complement each other.
The 12th Beijing International Film Festival will, under the call of the mission of the new era, inject new impetus and vitality into the development of China films and world films with Beijing’s tenacity and openness, and work together for the future!
The shortlist of the 12th Beijing International Film Festival "Tiantan Award" is as follows:
The screening list of the 12th Beijing International Film Festival is as follows:
