\u00a0<\/strong>was named Best Film (Chinese Language) within the Young Cinema Competition, with the jury commending the director for \u201cdemonstrating extraordinary courage in recounting the traumatic experiences of Malaysian travelling players.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\tThe characteristic revolves round a Cantonese avenue opera troupe throughout a turbulent interval in Malaysia\u2019s political historical past within the late Nineteen Sixties. Cast consists of Wan Fang, Pearlly Chua, Rexen Cheng, Pauline Tan, Peter Yu and Alvin Wong.<\/p>\n
\n\tOther winners within the Chinese-language class included the Best Director award for Chinese filmmaker Liang Ming\u00a0for his movie Carefree Days<\/em>, whereas the movie\u2019s feminine lead,\u00a0Lyu Xingchen received Best Actress. The Best Actor award went to\u00a0Jason King\u00a0in\u00a0<\/em>Taiwanese movie A Journey in Spring<\/em>.\u00a0Co-directed by Wang Ping-Wen and Peng Tzu-Hui,\u00a0the movie additionally picked up the FIPRESCI Prize.<\/p>\n\n\tGustav M\u00f6ller\u2019s Sons<\/em> acquired the Best Film prize for the World class. The movie follows an idealistic jail officer (Sidse Babett Knudsen), who’s confronted with the dilemma of her life when a younger man from her previous will get transferred to the jail the place she works.<\/p>\n\n\tThe Best Director (World) award went to Tunisian-American director Meryam Joobeur for her debut characteristic Who Do I Belong To<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\tIn the documentary competitors,\u00a0Favoriten<\/em>\u00a0by Austrian director Ruth Beckermann received Best Film, whereas Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Siu-pong took the Jury Prize with\u00a0Obedience<\/em>.\u00a0Intercepted<\/em>\u00a0by Ukrainian director Oksana Karpovych acquired a Special Mention. <\/p>\n\n\tItalian filmmaker Margherita Giusti\u00a0acquired the highest prize within the pageant\u2019s quick movie competitors for her animation\u00a0The Meatseller<\/em>. The Jury Prize went to\u00a0Shrooms<\/em>\u00a0by Portuguese director Jorge J\u00e1come.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[ad_1] Malaysia-Singapore-Taiwan co-production Snow in Midsummer\u00a0and\u00a0Swedish title Sons\u00a0took high prizes within the Young Cinema Competition on the 48th\u00a0Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF). Winners of the pageant\u2019s 15 Firebird Awards and FIPRESCI Prize had been introduced at an awards gala held on the Hong Kong Cultural Centre. Directed by Malaysian filmmaker Chong Keat-aun,\u00a0Snow in Midsummer\u00a0was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-126639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}