KAILI BLUES
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2015｜China｜110 min |
BRIEF SYNOPSISIn a small clinic in the foggy and damp city of Kaili in exotic, subtropical Guizhou Province, two preoccupied doctors live ghost-like lives. One of them, Chen Sheng, decides to fulfill his dead mother’s wish and sets off on a train journey to look for his brother’s abandoned child. His partner in the clinic, a lonely old lady, asks Chen to take an old photograph, a shirt and a cassette to her old sweetheart, who is now very ill. On his way to Zhenyuan County, Chen passes a strange little town called Dangmai, where time is not linear and people’s lives complement each other. Here, Chen experiences the past, present and future and begins to reflect upon his life. When Chen eventually reaches Zhenyuan, he only watches his brother’s abandoned child with a pair of binoculars from a distance. He gives the old lady’s keepsake to her former sweetheart’s son and then gets back on the train to complete his return journey. It is difficult to tell whether this world is a product of our memory, or whether we are simply a daydream of this world...Awards & Festivals:The 68th Festival del film Locarno Concorso Cineasti del presente Competition, Best Emerging Director AwardThe 68th Festival del film Locarno First Feature Competition, Special Mention The 34th Vancouver International Film Festival The 22nd Valdivia Film Festival International Competition The V'15 Viennale 2015 London East Asia Film Festival The 13rd Mumbai International Film Festival International Comeptition The 30th Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata VIII Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife The 12nd China Independent Film Festival The Independent Critics Prize The 6th Malatya International Film Festival The 8th Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival Competition The 52nd Golden Horse Awards, Best New Director Award The 52nd Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Observation Missions for Asian Cinema Award The 52nd Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, The International Critics Prize (FIPRESCI Prize) The 26th Stockholm International Film Festival Asian Images Section The 46th International Film Festival of India, Goa Kaleidoscope Section The 37th Festival des 3 Continents International Competition, Monttgolfiere d'Or Award The 26th Singapore International Film Festival Asian Vision Section The 41st Seoul Independent Film Festival International Invitation Section The 30th Entrevues Belfort International Film Festival International Competition The 20th International Film Festival of Kerala World Cinema Section The 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam Bright Future Section The 21st Cinema du Monde Festival in Paris The 29th Manosque Film Festival The 6th Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival Competition, Nomination of Best Picture The 15th !f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival Inspired Competition, !f Inspired Award The 6th UNAM International Film Festival Competition, Best Director Award The 16th Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival Competition, Golden Lady Harimaguada Award The 20th Sofia International Film Festival The 45th New Directors/New Films Festival The 40th Hong Kong International Film Festival Chinese Cinema Now Section 2016 Festival of Diversity of Franche-Comte The 21st Vilnius International Film Festival Discoveries Section The 7th China Film Directors Guild Award, Best New Director Award The 23rd Titanic Budapest International Film Festival Asian Winds Section The 35th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival Asian Frontiers Section The 6th Beijing International Film Festival Forward Future Competition, The Most Attractive Film Award The 6th Barcelona International Auteur Film Festival Competition The 27th International Ankara Film Festival The 12nd Kino Otok-Isola Cinema International Film Festival Signals Section The 19th Shanghai International Film Festival Chinese Films of the Moment Section The 1st Novos Cinema Film Festival Official Selection The 51st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Another View Section The 52nd Pesaro Film Festival Competition The 63rd Pula Film Festival International Competition The 2nd Queensland Film Festival The 7th Odessa International Film Festival Festival of Festivals Section The 65th Melbourne International Film Festival International Panorama Section The 40th Montreal World Film Festival Official Selection The 26th Focus on Asia Fukuoka International Film Festival New and Much Talked About Films from Asia Section The 14th International Film Festival of Asian-Pacific Countries "Pacific Meridian" in Vladivostok In Focus Section The 3rd Xi'an Silk Road Film Festival The 1st Mostra Cinematografica Chinese in Italia Competition The 3rd DC Chinese Film Festival Closing Film 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival Competition The 13th Changchun Film Festival 2016 Festival of Passionate Cinema of Ajaccio The 20th Canberra International Film Festival
The 11th Chinese Young Generation Film Forum, Special Jury Award The 11th Chinese Young Generation Film Forum, The Annual Cutting-Edge Filmmakers, nomination of Best Editor The 3rd Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival A Matter of Form Section
The 10th Asia Pacific Screen Award, nomination of Achievement in Directing The 10th Asia Pacific Screen Award, nomination of Achievement in Cinematography The 10th Asia Pacific Screen Award, Young Cinema Prize, Special Mention 2016 Deep Focus Chinese Film Festival in Madrid
The 22nd Festival of Auteur Films in Belgrade Bande a Part Section 2016 Costa Rica International Film Festival
The 5th Silk Road Film Festival Features Section
The 5th Helsinki Cine Aaisa The 24th Beijing College Student Film Festival, Art Exploration Award
The 1st China New Force, Best Director Award The 5th Chinese Film Fest Munchen The 37th Foro International de Cine 2017 Chinese Film Panorama（Hong Kong) 2017 Kino Asia Film Festival
2017 Lychee Film Festival The 10th Chinese Film Festival in New Zealand (Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch) 2017 Yarha International Film Festival
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