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Chapter 374 The Favor of the Film Festival
The Hawthorn will be screened at Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 1 in the Cinema Palace.

The entire theater looks like an upturned top hat, with a particularly strong sense of art.

After Zhou Xia and others arrived, there was still half an hour before the screening.

There are already hundreds of movie fans waiting to enter the venue, many of whom are Chinese from other cities in Germany who have come from afar.

When the time came, Zhou Xia and Little Yellow Duck walked hand in hand through the red carpet in front of the cinema, surrounded by enthusiastic movie fans, as well as some reporters and media.

The domestic media only had reporters from a few major portal websites, and even Xiahua Video didn't send anyone.

Zhou Xia and Little Yellow Duck have long been used to the enthusiasm of movie fans, but the freshness of arriving in Berlin, especially the cheers from foreigners, still make them a little excited.

When the screening time was up, ticket checking began. Fans went straight to the gate of the screening hall, surrounded for nearly 10 minutes, and then slowly entered the theater to take their seats.

Accompanied by Ms. Schneider, a 40-year-old female staff member of the film festival official, Zhou Xia and Xiao Huang Ya entered the theater to watch the film with fans.

The hall of 500 people was full, and the audience had high expectations for the film.

After all, it is Lao Mouzi's work!

Berlin is the blessed land of Lao Mouzi. After his directorial debut "Red Sorghum" won the Golden Bear Award in Berlin, he became famous in one fell swoop and gradually went to the world.

This is also the first time that a domestic film has won the highest award at a foreign A-level film festival.

During the more than two hours of broadcast time, there was a burst of laughter from time to time in the venue, especially when the third child and Jing Qiu crossed the river with wooden sticks, Jing Qiu and Wei Hong said that kissing would make them pregnant and so on.

Of course, some romantic and affectionate scenes also moved the audience very much.

Just like when we watch foreign movies, because we don’t have any preconceived prejudices, we don’t know much about foreign cultures, so we will be more tolerant, watch movies more attentively, and focus on the story and the performance of the actors.

In this way, we can interact more deeply with the spirit of the film.

Seeing the people who didn't leave the stage halfway, everyone was watching very seriously, Zhou Xia and Xiao Huang Ya were very relieved.

This can be regarded as recognition for them!

After the film screening, there was a short discussion meeting. Under the arrangement of Ms. Schneider, the two went to the stage to meet everyone.

The foreign audiences were very generous and applauded for 3 minutes!
Fortunately, the audience didn't stand up, otherwise Zhou Xia would have believed it, and thought it was not polite!
of course.

This "Hawthorn Tree" is better than the original version, at least there are not so many subtitles, and the story is very smooth.

The two accepted the official arrangement of flowers from the audience, accepted interviews, interacted with the audience, and answered some questions. Then, at ten o'clock, the event was over.

The rest is to do a promotional event for the Berlin Film Festival with the reporters of Sohu Video tomorrow morning, and introduce the humanities knowledge related to the Berlin Film Festival to domestic audiences, as well as places of interest and so on.

Due to this Berlin Film Festival, no Chinese-language film entered the main competition unit, in order to keep the domestic attention of the film festival.

"The Love of the Hawthorn Tree" happens to be released in Europe again, so the official arrangement of Lao Mouzi's already screened movie is in the new generation unit.

The award for this unit is called the Crystal Bear Award, which is an award that encourages the filming of films for children under the age of 14.

So there is no need to think about winning awards or something.

Anle Films, the overseas distributor of "The Hawthorn Tree", let the film participate in the film festival, and they are more concerned about the promotion of the film.

Even so, Messe Berlin, the organizer of the film festival, treated Zhou Xia and Little Yellow Duck very politely.

Both Lao Mouzi and Gong Li became famous from the Berlin Film Festival, so the Berlin Film Festival has always maintained a good relationship with them.

Zhou Xia and Xiao Huangya can be regarded as Lao Mouzi's disciples, and their stardom is magnanimous. The Berlin Film Festival is also very optimistic about them, hoping to continue this traditional friendship and take care of them, which is normal.

Especially Zhou Xia, whose first film he directed has achieved great commercial success and has already gained a lot of influence.

But he is also a very young newcomer director, and the Berlin Film Festival hopes that he can make some suitable themes to participate in the film festival.

What is a suitable subject?
Of course, it is a literary film, a film that has humanistic care, criticizes politics, reflects social reality, and so on.

Zhou Xia smiled and said nothing, but nodded in agreement.

Humanistic care, criticism of politics, and reflection of social reality are the universal principles of art films.

Caring, criticizing, and reacting are not equal to being black or uglifying, there is still a difference.

He will definitely make literary films in the future. The awards of the three major European film festivals have their own emphasis on literary films, and the Berlin Film Festival is more inclined to politics and society.

The film selector for their Asian region is Wang Qingqiang, who is the curator of the Hong Kong International Film Festival and the executive director of the Hong Kong Asian Film Consortium Forum.

This person chooses movies rather strangely. He likes to choose good-looking, weird, abstract, and no-story movies.

But in the end it can be summed up in three words, which is 'very practical'.

Actually, there are two layers.

The first level is for directors. Some directors look at the height of the mountain. When the film is shot, the first thing that comes to mind is the Cannes Film Festival, and then Berlin and Venice.

The film selector wanted to see the film, he was shy, pushed and refused, and in the end Cannes couldn’t be selected, so he came to ask Berlin and Venice if they wanted it. Of course, the film selector was very upset, who would care about you?

The second layer is for film selectors.

Each of them has to watch six or seven hundred movies a year, fly around Asia to select and watch movies, how many movies will they really watch patiently?

Therefore, more will choose films by famous directors, such as the works of several famous directors of the sixth generation in China.

The Berlin Film Festival has always been very fond of Chinese films. In recent years, the sixth generation of domestic directors, Wang Quanan, Wang Xiaoshuai, Jia Zhangke, etc., have all achieved success at the Berlin Film Festival.

In particular, Wang Quan'an has won awards one after another in the Berlin Film Festival in recent years, and has become the object of the Berlin Film Festival.

In 2007, "Tuya's Marriage" became famous in one fell swoop and won the Golden Bear Award, as well as the Catholic Humanitarian Spirit Award at the Berlin International Film Festival; in 2010, he was nominated for the Golden Bear Award for "Reunion", and finally won the Silver Bear Award for Best screenwriter.

Later, his "Textile Girl" participated in the Montreal Film Festival for various reasons, but it also won the grand prize.

Currently Wang Quanan is preparing for "White Deer Plain".

Zhou Xia was very happy to be favored and invited by the film festival officials.

Everything is business these days, and win-win cooperation is the best.

The film festival needs to find newcomers and improve its authority and prestige. Zhou Xia also needs awards to improve his status.

Before the movie was released, some people laughed at him for sure that he must have failed badly at the box office, and the mother who lost the money did not know him.

But now some people point to the high box office of "Charlotte", and say that 'box office doesn't mean everything'!
Box office doesn't mean everything, so awards can mean everything?
All in all, in the eyes of trolls and sunspots, you can ridicule anything you do.

Just like the male protagonist of an entertainment article, who is pure and dedicated, and only loves one, some people will laugh at you, and write an entertainment article that doesn't shoot actresses, what's the point?
If you really write about a hot actress, a bunch of people will come out again, saying that your three views are not correct, stallion, harem, scumbag...

No gossip.

Although Ms. Schneider expressed her favor for the film festival, but if she really participates in the film festival, whether she can win an award or not depends on the level of the film.

People just hope that Zhou Xia will make a film that is suitable for the Berlin Film Festival to participate in the exhibition, but it will not be like some awards, make some promises, and then fail to fulfill...

At the end of the film screening, accompanied by this Ms. Schneider, we briefly talked about this topic.

After leaving the movie palace, Zhou Xia went to eat with Little Yellow Duck, Li Jingwen, and Pu Lun first.

After dinner, it was already 10:30, and when we got back to the hotel, Zhou Xia hurriedly sent Fan Meiniang a WeChat message.

After getting confirmation from the other party, he left the hotel and went directly into the opposite hotel while no one was paying attention.

Go upstairs to find the room, knock on the door, and quickly enter the room.

"I thought you weren't coming."

After Fan Meiniang let Zhou Xia in, she looked at Zhou Xia in a black suit, and smiled charmingly, with a slightly mocking tone.

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