Xu Anhua and Carlo Sartrian lead the Pingyao jury: Two film experiences meet in the ancient city

The 10th Pingyao International Film Festival announced the candidates for the jury chairman for two honors.Xu Anhua serves as the chairman of the Feimu Honorary Jury, and Carlo Shatterian serves as the chairman of the Roberto Rossellini Honorary Jury.One has been writing about the lives of ordinary people in Chinese films for a long time, and the other has experience in film festival curation and criticism. The two film visions will meet in Pingyao.

Fei Mu Honors is open to Chinese-language films and film workers who have been shortlisted for the Hidden Dragon unit.This unit has always focused on the first steps of new authors, and also gives creators who are still looking for ways of expression a chance to be seen.Xu Anhua's creative experience is naturally related to this choice.She started with "Crazy Tribulation" and later shot "Women, Forty" - Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai - Sister Tao - and other works, always placing the characters in the specific texture of life.

Her films are great at capturing the unfinished words between people.Silence in a family, hesitation in a relationship, or ordinary days on the edge of the city will become the core of the story.Putting this kind of creative experience on the judging panel may bring about patient attention to characters, emotions and narrative.When young directors come to Pingyao with new works, they will also receive responses from such meticulous eyes.

The Roberto Rossellini Honor will be judged from the works of new international directors in the Crouching Tiger section.Carlo Shatterian has long been engaged in film criticism, curatorship and film festival work. He was the artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival, and now serves as the director of the National Film Museum in Turin.He is familiar with new film languages ​​​​in different regions, and has also seen many directors when their works were first recognized by the world.

The Pingyao Film Festival puts new Chinese films and new international films in the same ancient city, which is a continuous exchange in itself.The audience sees new narrative habits in one unit, and when they switch to another unit, they encounter completely different life experiences.The work of the jury is about results, and discussions between filmmakers, feedback after screenings, and the way the work is remembered will also remain at the festival.

The arrival of Xu Anhua and Carlo Shatterian has given Pingyao this year two clear clues: one leads to the daily life and inheritance of Chinese-language films, and the other leads to the exploration and dialogue of new international directors.After the lights of the film festival come on, what really stands at the center will still be the new films and those who are willing to tell their stories through the lens.