Golden Goblet Awards’s official feature films at Shanghai Film Festival are all introduced.

The Golden Goblet Awards main competition unit of the 23rd Shanghai International Film Festival has been the focus of attention of film industry and professional fans for many years, and both overseas new films and domestic new films have their own highlights. Due to the epidemic situation, this year’s main competition in Golden Goblet Awards will not be awarded, but only the officially selected films will be announced, which are from Asia, Europe and South America, including:

Young director Li Xiaofeng teamed up with popular actor Zhang Yu to uncover the truth about the murder fifteen years ago, Italian stream-of-consciousness film Feel Your Memory, the latest masterpiece of Japanese genius director Hideyoshi Okuda, and Hai Lianna: Canvas Life based on the real experience of Hai Lianna Kallback, a famous Finnish modernist painter. The Island of Lies, based on the shipwreck of Salvola Island in 1921, The Reunions, an experimental new work directed by comedian Dapeng, The Legend of Mietek Kosz, based on the true story of Polish blind jazz genius Mitka Koza, who was only 29 years old, The Blind Man, which depicts the family relationship between a blind Argentine father and his son, and The Group of Horses, where a Greek couple wanted to live a high life and had a scary event, I’m Here, which shows the general strike against the background of Iran’s current affairs news, a family spiritual healing book from Indonesia, One day we will talk about today, and See you again in Nara, where Pengfei joined hands with Yingze to bring Sino-Japanese friendship.

The following are their respective details:

Calm (Back to the Wharf, 2020, China)

Aspect: The truth about the murder that has been hidden for fifteen years.

Song Hao, an 18-year-old senior 3 student, accidentally killed someone and then went to a foreign land. Fifteen years later, he returned to his hometown to attend his funeral, only to find out the truth unexpectedly. The third feature film directed by Li Xiaofeng, a young director, puts into the framework of black crime films some thoughts on the old and new changes under the rapid development of China society. The film has a strong cast. Zhang Yu, who won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Asian Film Awards in 2019 with Dying to Survive, plays Song Hao as an adult in the film. His opposite play with Song Jia, the best actress of the Golden Rooster Award, is full of warmth and sensibility, with a touch of comedy, while Yanhui Wang, the supporting actor of the gold medal, and Hong Chi Lee, a popular star with friendly guest appearances, have breakthrough performances.

Feel Your Memories (Feel Your Memories, 2019, Italy)

Aspect: ID, ego and superego collide.

Alice, who has reached the age of 30, returned to her hometown to attend her father’s funeral, and the emerging childhood memories brought her into danger. Italian female directors Cristina Comencini collaborated with Giovanna Mesozoono, the best actress in Venice Film Festival, after being nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Award in 2006, and brought her latest works written and directed by herself. This film is mainly shot in the real scene of Posillipo residential area in Naples, Christina’s birthplace. It uses psychoanalysis to sneak into the maze of human memory, skillfully juxtaposes the protagonists of middle age, youth and children in the same time and space, rebuilds memories with nonlinear narrative structure, uncovers the spiritual trauma buried by time, and defends the dignity of gender equality under the overlapping of horror and romance.

Children don’t want to understand (One Summer Story, 2020, Japan)

Aspect: The "Summer Battle" of Tong Yan Nan Shen

Sh?ichi Okita, a talented director who has directed highly distracted works such as "The Interface of Crossing the Road" and "Where there is a Bear Valley", is unique in the Japanese film industry with his extraordinary and unparalleled sense of humor, and almost never fails. This film is no exception. The film is adapted from the original work of the same name by the well-known female cartoonist Tadao Archipelago, and describes a wonderful experience of Minami, a sophomore girl in the swimming department, and a boy in the calligraphy department who has a good impression on each other in the summer vacation to find their biological father. Under the wonderful hand of Hideyoshi Okuda, they are constantly laughing and moving. Etsushi Toyokawa, an old opera player, made a wonderful off-line performance in the film, and Chiba Yudai, the goddess of children’s beauty, who is known as the first lovely Japanese, even surprised the audience with her charming dress.

Hai Lianna: Life on Canvas (Helene, 2020, Finland)

Aspect: Portrait of Bathing Fire of Female Artists

Adapted from Laker Lehu’s novel of the same name, it is based on the true story of Hai Lianna Kallback, a famous Finnish modernist painter, and tells the anecdote that Hai Lianna met her soul mate who was 19 years younger than her in 1915. Finnish director Antti Jokinen, who won the Golden Jubilee Award for Best Director at the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2016 for "Flowers of Evil", wrote and directed his latest masterpiece, which took five years to prepare and cost $2.5 million. Starting from the turning point of Hai Lianna’s life, the double-line structure of light and shade strongly contrasted her changes in affection and friendship, and the artistic creation changes driven by Hai Lianna’s emotions were revealed by the oil-painting light and shadow tones. In order to play the role of Hai Lianna, Finnish movie star laura birn spent half a year studying painting, which perfectly interpreted a great artist who was introverted.

The Island of Lies (Spain, 2020)

Aspect: submerged secrets and lies

Based on the real historical disaster, this paper tells the story that an immigrant ship sank on the rocks in Salvola Island in Galicia province in 1921, and three women saved many lives. However, with the intervention of journalists, rumors around them followed. Female directors Paula Constance, who has been involved in the field of TV and documentary for a long time, wrote and directed her first feature film. With a large number of historical and anthropological books as the knowledge background, combined with the meteorological and marine conditions, with the help of local people, she shot the scene in the accident place. This film cuts to the chase from the perspective of three women, creates a sense of horror and suffocation with dark tones, explores women’s desire for love and independence between repression and resistance, and clears away the clouds of secrets and lies, giving hit the floor a torture on the historical truth.

Good luck (The Reunions, 2020, China)

Aspect: it is difficult to tell the truth from the falsehood, and Dapeng loves to cheat.

The latest work of comedy star Dapeng, the film is divided into two parts. The first part is Auspicious, which was directed by him and won the Best Short Film Award in 2018. It tells the story of Wang Lili going home for the New Year and facing family conflicts. The second part is the disassembly of Auspicious, presenting the filming behind the scenes to the audience. The film is a mixture of mockumentary, documentaries, feature films, etc. The first part and the second part seem to be mutually causal, but in fact it is difficult to tell the truth from the truth. With excellent scene scheduling ability and seamless mix and match between non-professional actors and professional actors, Dapeng has created an experimental work full of personal homesickness and various misreading traps.

Blind pianist (Icarus, The Legend of Mietek Kosz, Poland, 2019)

Aspect: musicians in the dark

According to the true story of Mitka Koza, a Polish blind jazz genius who died at the age of 29, it tells the short and gorgeous life of Mitka who was obsessed with piano. This film sets joy against sorrow, interweaves childhood memories through nonlinear narration, uses the first perspective to enter the inner activities of the characters, skillfully uses synaesthesia, dives into the auditory imagination of the blind by relying on fast montage, and shows the majestic charm of music as a world language in many wonderful piano fights. Maciej Pieprzyca, a famous Polish filmmaker who won the Golden Jubilee Award for Best Director at the 20th Shanghai International Film Festival, joined hands with David Ognik, the best actor at Seattle International Film Festival, to present the beautiful jazz dream of outstanding musicians.

Blind people (Ciegos, 2019, Argentina)

Aspect: Life is like a string, only love eternity.

The blind father took his 13-year-old son back to the town where he lived as a child and visited the mourning hall of his mother who had just died. Director Fernando Zubo’s first feature film, which was written and directed by himself, was inspired by his personal experience of being a father for the first time eleven years ago. With the theme of "return", he used naturalistic close-ups to capture the fragile and sensitive psychological activities of the father and son, and explored the unknown side of the stalwart father from the perspective of his son. Through two clues of adolescent growth and parents’ childbearing, this paper expounds the soul of complete fatherly love under the incomplete body, and probes into the importance of love and tolerance in the process of life growth. Marcelo Sobioto, an Argentine actor, was specially trained for the blind and vividly performed the image of a blind father who was physically disabled and determined.

All the Pretty Little Horses (2020, Greece)

Aspect: the phoenix dream of holding a mud swallow

The husband is the temporary administrator of the villa in the rich area, and his wife and children occasionally sneak in. The family of three fantasized about living a high life, but it was broken by the arrival of the owner. The second feature film by the Greek director Michaelis Constantinatos was inspired by his experiences. With the help of social observation and research, he focused on the dual life of an ordinary couple "in heaven" and "on earth" by holding a camera. Focusing on horror, this film quietly reveals the reason and animality, dreams and disillusionment between husband and wife in the face of material, spiritual and sensual desires. Greek actress Euta Aguiloplo and director Michaelis cooperated again after their debut, and performed a wife who was obsessed with luxury life and longed to get rid of the ordinary.

I am here (I am here! , 2020, Iran)

Aspect: the struggle on the edge of fate

My brother died strangely in the shipyard strike. My brother took care of his mother and sister-in-law while working hard in the factory. Abbas Amigny, an Iranian director who has long been concerned about social workers, wrote and directed his latest work. Based on the social background of the current strike in Iran, he focused on depicting the hesitation and anxiety of small people in the historical torrent by holding a long lens, and deeply explored the hardships of Iranian workers’ lives by contrasting group images with empty lenses. The film takes "cow" as a metaphor, and the life and death field related to individuals is highlighted under the bright yellow tone. Afshin Hashmi, who won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Iranian Dawn International Film Festival, plays the leading role and plays a worker struggling on the edge of fate.

One Day We’ll Talk About Today (2020, Indonesia).

Aspect: Family Spiritual Healing Collection

Adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Indonesian novelist Marcela ·F·P, it tells the story that a family of five with a bright surface has undergone earth-shaking changes due to the intrusion of a stranger. The latest masterpiece of Indonesian talented young director Unga Dewemas Sasonge, who has been away from the film industry for two years, takes the family as the core of the story, creates suspense by using fragmented memories, excavates family secrets that have been hidden for many years through nonlinear narration, and the three clues of light and dark are complex and overlapping, directly hitting the pain of life with a minimalist wind, discussing personal growth and setting off the most painful love agitation. Rachel Amanda, an amphibious artist from Indonesia, joined hands with the Asian Film Award and Tony Damara, the best actor in Indonesia Film Festival, to perform the deep affection between father and daughter.

See also Nara (TRACING HER SHADOW, 2020, China/Japan).

Aspect: See Nara beauty all the way.

Young director Pengfei’s new work, which is hand in hand with the leading actor Yingze again after The Taste of Rice Flowers, tells the story of an old woman, Chen Huiming, who is nearly 80 years old, who went to Nara to find the adopted Japanese orphans after the war while her granddaughter Ozawa was studying in Japan. With the soothing and fresh rhythm of the road film, the film combines the friendly and beautiful local customs of Nara with the story of finding relatives, creating a refreshing Sino-Japanese relationship. The 82-year-old Yanshu Wu and the 65-year-old famous Japanese movie star Jun Kunimura are the most moving driving force of the film story. Pengfei designed a lot of small details for them in the film, which made the audience feel the affinity of the two performing artists.

Note: In case of any change of film items, the actual film arrangement shall prevail.