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South China Morning Post
23-02-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Coming-of-age drama, Chinese director win Berlin film festival awards
Published: 9:47am, 23 Feb 2025 Updated: 9:48am, 23 Feb 2025 Dreams (Sex Love) , a tender coming-of-age drama about a young woman's first crush on a teacher and the art of writing won the Golden Bear top prize at the 75th Berlin Film Festival. The grand jury Silver Bear prize was awarded to Brazilian filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro's film The Blue Trail , a dystopian story set in the Amazon about an elderly woman who chooses to reject living the rest of her life in a senior housing colony. Chinese director Huo Meng won best director for Living the Land , his feature about four generations of farmers. The Golden Bear-winning film by Dag Johan Haugerud, starring Ella Overbye, is the last in a three-part series by the Norwegian director exploring emotional and physical intimacy. Chinese film director Huo Meng waves to the audience as he leaves the stage after being awarded the Silver Bear for best director for his film Living the Land in Berlin. Photo: AFP The jury president, American director Todd Haynes, praised the film's flawless performances and clear-sighted observations about desire, and how it portrayed the act of writing.
South China Morning Post
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Living the Land: a captivating tale of the upheavals in 1990s rural China
4.5/5 stars Contemporary Chinese cinema is littered with decades-spanning epics designed to chronicle the country's changing fortunes in the 20th century. With Living the Land , which was selected in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival on Friday, Huo Meng has achieved the same objective with a film unfolding across merely one single year. Revolving around a clan of impoverished farmers in Henan in 1991, Huo's second feature is a visually captivating, studiously structured and ceaselessly humane account about the anguish, anxiety and agitation sweeping across rural China at the cusp of its turbocharged plunge towards market economics. Bolstered by remarkably affecting performances from his ensemble of non-professional actors and stunning camerawork that reveals village life at its happiest and harshest, Huo has made a great leap forward from his debut, the modestly budgeted road movie Crossing the Border – Zhaoguan from 2018. Central to Living the Land is Chuang (Wang Shang), a boy living with his mother's extended family in a hamlet where electricity is scarce, tractors even more so, and struggling peasants make bricks in rickety kilns or even sell their blood to survive. Huo Meng is the director of Living the Land. Photo: Huo Meng
Yahoo
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Watch the latest news from the Berlinale's daily press conferences
The 75th Berlinale, the world's biggest movie festival for the public, is now on in the German capital. You can follow each day's press conferences live here on Euronews Culture. Last night British actress Tilda Swinton received an Honorary Golden Bear in recognition of her lifetime's work. Over the next ten days 19 films will compete for the prestigious Golden and Silver Bears, with American director Todd Haynes leading this year's jury. Friday's programme includes: Competition Sheng xi zhi di (Living the Land) by Huo Meng 10:50 Photo Call 11:00 Press Conference Huo Meng (Director, Screenwriter) Wang Shang (Actor) Zhang Chuwen (Actor) Zhang Fan (Producer) Yao Chen (Executive Producer) Jiang Hao (Executive Producer) Moderation: Jessica Kiang Competition Hot Milk by Rebecca Lenkiewicz 13:20 Photo Call 13:30 Press Conference Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Director, Screenwriter) Emma Mackey (Actor) Fiona Shaw (Actor) Vicky Krieps (Actor) Vincent Perez (Actor) Christopher Blauvelt (Director of Photography) Christine Langan (Producer) Moderation: Mathilde Henrot Competition Sheng xi zhi di (Living the Land) by Huo Meng 14:00 Red Carpet Berlinale Special A Complete Unknown by James Mangold 15:00 Photo Call 15:10 Press Conference 17:45 Red Carpet Timothée Chalamet (Actor) Moderation: Jacqueline Lyanga Competition Hot Milk by Rebecca Lenkiewicz 21:15 Red Carpet
