‘Only the River Flows,’ ‘Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell’ Win Prizes at Pingyao Film Festival
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Two titles which debuted at Cannes this year were named as the major prize-winners at the seventh edition of the Pingyao International Film Festival in China.
Wei Shujun’s black comedy-thriller “Only the River Flows” won the festival’s Fei Mu prize for best Chinese film. “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell,” by Vietnamese feature film debutant Pham Thien An, won the Roberto Rossellini prize for best international film.
The picture is a Vietnam, Singapore, France, Spain co-production and won Cannes’ Camera d’Or for best first film. Other prizes went to Hong Kong-based Norman Wang, a veteran consultant, marketeer and festival scout, and to Huang Jianxin, a leading mainland Chinese director-screenwriter and producer whose directing career has ranged from satire to propaganda.
He also produced Sun Zhou’s Gong Li- and Tony Leung-starring “Zhou Yu’s Train.” The festival, originally conceived by Jia Zhangke and Marco Mueller, is held in the UNESCO-heritage, Shanxi town of Pingyao.
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