Chinese director Bi awarded at Locarno Film Festival
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E-mail CRI, August 17, 2015
Chinese director Bi Gan has won Best Emerging Director as well as Special Mention for the First Feature award at the Locarno International Film Festival.
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| Chinese director Bi Gan has been awarded at the Locarno International Film Festival. [Photo: mtime.com] |
"Kaili Blues" is set in Kaili - a city in southwest China's Guizhou Province, which is the center of the ethnic minority Miao culture, and is also the director's hometown.
It tells the story of the protagonist, who, while looking for his niece, stops in an otherworldly town that commingles his past, present and future.
The film has obtained its screening permit in China and is expected to meet with domestic audiences at the end of this year.
"Kaili Blues" is the first feature film of the young director, who also wrote the film, after college graduation in 2011.
As one of the oldest film festivals in the world, the Locarno Film Festival is well known as a festival of discovery.
Chinese director Jia Zhangke and Hou Hsiao Hsien have also been awarded by the festival before.
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