List of finalists for the 11th Beijing International Film Festival Tiantan Award

The 11th Beijing International Film Festival will be held from August 14th to 21st. Fifteen films from all over the world were shortlisted for the Tiantan Award in this year’s Beijing International Film Festival, including All About My Mom starring Xu Fan and Zhang Jingyi, Parking Lot of Life starring Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tori Matsuzaka and Suzu Hirose, and If One Day I Will Leave You starring Qi Xi and Xie Chengze.

Everything About My Mom (120 minutes in China)

Director: Zhao Tianyu

Starring: Xu Fan, Zhang Jingyi, Xu Yajun, Zhang Xinyi and Chen Minghao.

Do you know your mother? Most people may find it difficult to give a definite answer to this question. In the eyes of many people, the Chinese mother-daughter relationship is particularly complicated, even more complicated than love. In Everything About My Mom, we may find some interpretations. Director Zhao Tianyu told the audience a warm, complicated and real Chinese mother-daughter life with a touching story of "laughter and tears" between her mother Ji Peizhen and her daughter Xiaomei.

Love Now (82 minutes in Finland)

Director: Hammy Lamezan

Starring: Niilo Airas/Toni Airas/Lumi Barrois/laura birn/Muhammed Cangore/Pezhman Escandari.

Director Hammy Ramezan replied with the story of Ramin Maidipur’s family from Iran who lived in the Finnish Refugee Center. Even if they are wandering outside and living in anxiety and uncertainty, they should cherish every day and feel "this love at this time".

Parking Lot of Life (126 minutes in Japan)

Director: Izuru Narushima

Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tori Matsuzaka and Suzu Hirose.

Based on the novel of the same name by the doctor and writer Nan Xingzi, the film is directed by Izuru Narushima and co-starred by Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tori Matsuzaka and Suzu Hirose, and tells the story of the doctor, Kazuko, who returned to Kanazawa from Tokyo to rethink the concept of treatment. Let life return to the starting point of life. The Parking Lot of Life is a movie that inspires the audience to face life and death squarely.

The caged bird (119 minutes in Switzerland and Germany)

Director: Oliver Reese

Starring: Gerald Haas/anatole taubman/joel basman

Oliver Rees, the director, explores the spirit and body of freedom through the story between a young lawyer and the king who escaped from prison, and reflects the conflict between social system and individual freedom through the fierce conflict between characters, explaining that there is never more than one choice for a "caged bird" to break the cage.

Above the Clouds (90 minutes in China)

Director: Liu Zhihai

Starring: Chen Weixin/Wu Jiahui/Nie Jinquan/Ying Linjian

With Xu Xiaoming as the chief producer and Pema Tseden and Cui Siwei as the co-producers, Above the Clouds directed by Liu Zhihai tells the story of a revolutionary and loyal military action in China in 1935. Young Red Army soldiers received military orders to die and fought to the death with the enemy. Survival and death, cruelty and perseverance, the influence of war on individuals and the significance to groups, director Liu Zhihai let the audience participate in an immersive experience with a sense of mission through Above the Clouds.

"If I will leave you one day" (China, 105 minutes)

Director: Li Gen

Starring: Qi Xi/Xie Chengze/Niu Chao/Qiu Tian/Song Ningfeng/Chen Yongzhong.

Special appearance: Zhang Aijia

The film tells the story of Li Xiaoli, an exchange student who just arrived in a foreign country, exchanging warmth and kindness with a group of strangers, and finally parting as scheduled.

Diary of Siege (118 minutes in Russia)

Director: andre Zaitsev

Starring: Olga Ozollapinya/Sergey Dreyden/Andrey Shibarshin/Darya Rumyantseva

During World War II, Leningrad, the city where Olga lived, was besieged by war. On the way to find her father in exile, she experienced various hardships in the snow and ice, and history was told and repeated before her eyes.

School in Mount Vesu (70 minutes in Argentina)

Director: Ba tania Capato

Starring: Clementina Folmer/Mara Bestelli/Pablo Seijo/Irene Zequin.

According to his family history, director Ba tania Capato recorded the inner journey of the protagonist in a keen and gentle way, and described the healing journey of Emma, a little girl with autism, in a mountain village primary school, close to the natural life and accompanied by the mare "Little Star". The appearance of her best friend Ilyina opened her mind.

Conference (135 minutes in Russia, Estonia, Britain and Italy)

Director: Ivan Tverdov.

Starring: Philip Adeyev/Natalya Pavlenkova/Yan Sapnik

Director Ivan Tverdov discussed the essence of "fear" from the perspective of private family through the story of Sister Natalia. "Conference" restores the truth of the terrorist incident in a different way, which will bring the audience a surprise of "low cost" production.

The last film screening (110 minutes in India and France)

Director: Pan Nalin

The last film screening directed by Pan Nalin is called Indian version of Paradise Cinema. The film tells the story of Samai, a 9-year-old boy obsessed with light and shadow in a remote village in India, who made unremitting efforts with his friends to make a film movie.

King’s Night (93 minutes in France, C? te d ‘Ivoire, Canada and Senegal)

Director: Philip Lacort

Starring: Steve Tienchu /Rasmane Ouedraogo

In this film, a young man becomes a new "storyteller" after being put into a prison ruled by prisoners. He has no choice but to tell the mysterious life of the legendary criminal "King Zama" and try his best to make this story last until the dawn. Director Philip Lacort will bring the never-ending "One Thousand and One Nights" to the audience in Africa.

The Old Woman Who Can’t Rest in Peace (99 minutes in Romania)

Director: Andrei Gruzsniczki

Starring: Mircea Andreescu/Valer Dellakeza/Gabriel Spahiu

Director Andrei Gruzsniczki conveys his thoughts on life through the "bizarre" story between Emile, his best friend Titi and his late wife Smaranda-although he knows that life will end, everyone is resisting the passage of time. What do you think of this?

Vow of Faith (120 minutes in Denmark)

Director: billy august

Starring: Birthe Neumann/Simon Bennigger/Anders henrich Sen.

Directed by billy august, the director of "Double Palms d ‘Or", the film closely centers on the mysterious and bizarre "oath of faith" between Karen Blixen, a world-famous novelist, and Bjorwig, a promising young poet, and reveals a little-known emotional journey.

Walking on the Rock in the Far Moon (96 minutes in Australia)

Director: Kurt Martin

Starring: Aaron Jeffery/ Jessica Napier/David Field

On Monday, a 9-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy, Taylor, met in the process of "escape" and unexpectedly started a touching friendship journey. Kurt Martin ingeniously embedded the story of "growing up" in the road type movies, achieving a warm and healing story, and finally reconnecting with the world on Monday when he was terminally ill, and Taylor the thief also got rid of the past haze with this hard-won friendship.

Snow Girl (92 minutes in France and Belgium)

Director: Charlene Fabvier

Starring: Jérémie Renier/Noah Abita

The film carefully observes women’s sexual maturity and psychological changes in adolescence, depicts the process of young women’s gradual awakening through the personal experience of 15-year-old girl Liz, and finally understands the essential difference between love and sexual assault.