Directorial debut of filmmaker Bai Xu, “The Crossing” deserves the various awards it earned and the many positive reviews it received. The movie continues its way around festivals worldwide, and is now coming to the Far East Film Festival.
“The Crossing” is screening at the Udine Far East Film Festival
The movie follows Peipei. She is a 16 years-old high-school student, living in China but commuting to Hong Kong every day,where her school is. Peipei comes from a seemingly unstable household, and from an unprivileged background. She is best friend with Jo, her well-off classmate. They both dream and plan on going to an onsen, Japanese hot spring, in the winter. Jo starts dating Hao. That’s when things begin to get complicated. The teenager gets involved in Hao’s side-job and starts smuggling iPhone to mainland China. If she does it to gather enough money for her Japanese trip in the first place,...
“The Crossing” is screening at the Udine Far East Film Festival
The movie follows Peipei. She is a 16 years-old high-school student, living in China but commuting to Hong Kong every day,where her school is. Peipei comes from a seemingly unstable household, and from an unprivileged background. She is best friend with Jo, her well-off classmate. They both dream and plan on going to an onsen, Japanese hot spring, in the winter. Jo starts dating Hao. That’s when things begin to get complicated. The teenager gets involved in Hao’s side-job and starts smuggling iPhone to mainland China. If she does it to gather enough money for her Japanese trip in the first place,...
- 4/30/2019
- by Oriana Virone
- AsianMoviePulse
Xinjiang-set “A First Farewell” was named the best film in the Chinese section of the Hong Kong International Film Festival’s Firebird awards competition for young film makers. Montenegro-based Ivan Salatic’s “You Have the Night’ won the equivalent award in the rest of the world section.
Prizes were awarded at a ceremony on Sunday evening. The festival, which gou underway on March 18, draws to a close on Monday night.
A Chinese jury headed by Jiang Wen said that “Farewell” represents “near perfection” for a debut feature. Directed by Wang Lina, it “offers a lucid exposition of the characters’ heart and mind, and the actions driven by their inner selves. A debut feature that achieves high congruity between form and contents.”
The world cinema jury headed by veteran French critic, Michel Ciment rewarded “”YouHave Te Night” for “its depiction of a city by the sea and the closure of a...
Prizes were awarded at a ceremony on Sunday evening. The festival, which gou underway on March 18, draws to a close on Monday night.
A Chinese jury headed by Jiang Wen said that “Farewell” represents “near perfection” for a debut feature. Directed by Wang Lina, it “offers a lucid exposition of the characters’ heart and mind, and the actions driven by their inner selves. A debut feature that achieves high congruity between form and contents.”
The world cinema jury headed by veteran French critic, Michel Ciment rewarded “”YouHave Te Night” for “its depiction of a city by the sea and the closure of a...
- 4/1/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
A First Farewell won the Firebird Award in the first ever Chinese-language Young Cinema Competition.
Lina Wang’s A First Farewell and Ivan Salatic’s You Have The Night took the top prizes at this year’s Firebird Awards at the Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff).
A First Farewell won the Firebird Award in the first ever Chinese-language Young Cinema Competition, while You Have The Night was presented with the same prize in the ‘World’ category of the awards.
Xu Zhenhao’s Give Me A Ride won two awards in the Chinese-language competition, for best director and best actor for Dang Yu’s performance,...
Lina Wang’s A First Farewell and Ivan Salatic’s You Have The Night took the top prizes at this year’s Firebird Awards at the Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hkiff).
A First Farewell won the Firebird Award in the first ever Chinese-language Young Cinema Competition, while You Have The Night was presented with the same prize in the ‘World’ category of the awards.
Xu Zhenhao’s Give Me A Ride won two awards in the Chinese-language competition, for best director and best actor for Dang Yu’s performance,...
- 4/1/2019
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Directorial debut of filmmaker Bai Xue and awards-winner movie, “The Crossing” is coming to the United Kingdom. More info on https://www.thecrossingfilm.co.uk/
The movie follows Peipei. She is a 16 years-old high-school student, living in China but commuting to Hong Kong every day,where her school is. Peipei comes from a seemingly unstable household, and from an unprivileged background. She is best friend with Jo, her well-off classmate. They both dream and plan on going to an onsen, Japanese hot spring, in the winter. Jo starts dating Hao. That’s when things begin to get complicated. The teenager gets involved in Hao’s side-job and starts smuggling iPhone to mainland China. If she does it to gather enough money for her Japanese trip in the first place, the film unfolds more complex and subtle reasons.
Indeed, Peipei involvement in illegal activities is not just linked to her desire...
The movie follows Peipei. She is a 16 years-old high-school student, living in China but commuting to Hong Kong every day,where her school is. Peipei comes from a seemingly unstable household, and from an unprivileged background. She is best friend with Jo, her well-off classmate. They both dream and plan on going to an onsen, Japanese hot spring, in the winter. Jo starts dating Hao. That’s when things begin to get complicated. The teenager gets involved in Hao’s side-job and starts smuggling iPhone to mainland China. If she does it to gather enough money for her Japanese trip in the first place, the film unfolds more complex and subtle reasons.
Indeed, Peipei involvement in illegal activities is not just linked to her desire...
- 3/25/2019
- by Oriana Virone
- AsianMoviePulse
This feature debut about a schoolgirl coerced into small-time smuggling is all the more powerful for shunning high drama
With this elegantly elliptical arthouse movie, Bai Xue announces herself as a cool, confident observer of a new generation of Chinese youth. There are echoes of Sofia Coppola in Bai’s directing debut, a coming-of-age story inspired by real-life criminal gangs in Hong Kong who recruit schoolkids to smuggle mobile phones into mainland China. It’s a wisp of film that never quite gathers speed or force but it gets under your skin, capturing the impulsiveness and impatience of teenagers. Others may find it a little flat or frustrating.
Huang Yao is shy 16-year-old Peipei, who’s frantically saving up for a holiday in Japan with her rich best friend Jo (Carmen Soup). Peipei commutes daily between her home in the Chinese city Shenzhen and school in Hong Kong. To make...
With this elegantly elliptical arthouse movie, Bai Xue announces herself as a cool, confident observer of a new generation of Chinese youth. There are echoes of Sofia Coppola in Bai’s directing debut, a coming-of-age story inspired by real-life criminal gangs in Hong Kong who recruit schoolkids to smuggle mobile phones into mainland China. It’s a wisp of film that never quite gathers speed or force but it gets under your skin, capturing the impulsiveness and impatience of teenagers. Others may find it a little flat or frustrating.
Huang Yao is shy 16-year-old Peipei, who’s frantically saving up for a holiday in Japan with her rich best friend Jo (Carmen Soup). Peipei commutes daily between her home in the Chinese city Shenzhen and school in Hong Kong. To make...
- 3/21/2019
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
Chinese drama The Crossing, the acclaimed directorial debut of young female filmmaker Bai Xue, has been picked up for a theatrical release in North America and a slew of other international territories.
Produced by Wanda Pictures, The Crossing premiered to positive reviews at last year's Toronto Film Festival. The film follows a shy Chinese high school student (Huang Yao) who gets recruited to smuggle goods across the border between southern China and Hong Kong. The girl accepts the job with innocent dreams of saving enough money to fly with her friends to Japan, but her new line of work soon becomes ...
Produced by Wanda Pictures, The Crossing premiered to positive reviews at last year's Toronto Film Festival. The film follows a shy Chinese high school student (Huang Yao) who gets recruited to smuggle goods across the border between southern China and Hong Kong. The girl accepts the job with innocent dreams of saving enough money to fly with her friends to Japan, but her new line of work soon becomes ...
- 3/17/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Chinese drama The Crossing, the acclaimed directorial debut of young female filmmaker Bai Xue, has been picked up for a theatrical release in North America and a slew of other international territories.
Produced by Wanda Pictures, The Crossing premiered to positive reviews at last year's Toronto Film Festival. The film follows a shy Chinese high school student (Huang Yao) who gets recruited to smuggle goods across the border between southern China and Hong Kong. The girl accepts the job with innocent dreams of saving enough money to fly with her friends to Japan, but her new line of work soon becomes ...
Produced by Wanda Pictures, The Crossing premiered to positive reviews at last year's Toronto Film Festival. The film follows a shy Chinese high school student (Huang Yao) who gets recruited to smuggle goods across the border between southern China and Hong Kong. The girl accepts the job with innocent dreams of saving enough money to fly with her friends to Japan, but her new line of work soon becomes ...
- 3/17/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A new generation of Asian filmmakers has gained international appreciation with their creative talent and sophisticated craft. The 43rd Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF43) is pleased to announce two award-winning works from promising Asian directors – “The Crossing”, winner of Best Film in the Fei Mu Awards at this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival in China, and “Manta Ray”, named Best Film in Venice Film Festival’s Horizons Section, both of which will premiere in HKIFF43.
Produced by world-renowned filmmaker Tian Zhuangzhuang, “The Crossing” is the debut feature directed by Bai Xue. Her cinematic talent is on full display in this captivating tale of a teenage girl’s precipitous slide into a web of crime and passion. The film well deserves Best Film in the Fei Mu Awards, and also Best Actress for Huang Yao’s outstanding performance.
In “Manta Ray”, a mesmerizing debut feature about the bonding of...
Produced by world-renowned filmmaker Tian Zhuangzhuang, “The Crossing” is the debut feature directed by Bai Xue. Her cinematic talent is on full display in this captivating tale of a teenage girl’s precipitous slide into a web of crime and passion. The film well deserves Best Film in the Fei Mu Awards, and also Best Actress for Huang Yao’s outstanding performance.
In “Manta Ray”, a mesmerizing debut feature about the bonding of...
- 10/20/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Ivan Ayr’s Soni won best film in the Roberto Rossellini Awards, while The Crossing took best film in the Fei Mu Awards.
Indian director Ivan Ayr’s Soni won best film in the Roberto Rossellini Awards at this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival (Pyiff), while The Crossing from China’s Bai Xue took best film in the Fei Mu Awards.
Best director in the Roberto Rossellini Awards, selected from the festival’s Crouching Tigers section, went to Serbia’s Ognjen Glavonić for The Load, while the Jury Award went to A Land Imagined, directed by Singapore’s Yeo Siew Hua.
Indian director Ivan Ayr’s Soni won best film in the Roberto Rossellini Awards at this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival (Pyiff), while The Crossing from China’s Bai Xue took best film in the Fei Mu Awards.
Best director in the Roberto Rossellini Awards, selected from the festival’s Crouching Tigers section, went to Serbia’s Ognjen Glavonić for The Load, while the Jury Award went to A Land Imagined, directed by Singapore’s Yeo Siew Hua.
- 10/17/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Indian film “Soni,” directed by Ivan Iyer, was named as the best film at the second edition of the Pingyao International Film Festival. It wins a prize of $20,000, with half going to development of the director’s next project, and half provided to the film’s distributor in China.
Other Roberto Rossellini prizes went to Ognjen Glavonic as best director, for “The Load” (aka “Teret”) worth $10,000, and to Singaporean-Chinese film “A Land Imagined,” which collected the jury prize. The jury included China’s Dai Jinhua, and Wang Xiaoshuai, American actor Mason C. Lee, Iran’s Amir Naderi, and Georgia’s Ana Urushadze.
A separate prize series, the Fei Mu Awards was presented to Chinese-language films which are directorial debuts or second features and which showed in the festival’s New Generation China, Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons, or Best of Fest sections. “The Crossing” by Bai Xue was named best film...
Other Roberto Rossellini prizes went to Ognjen Glavonic as best director, for “The Load” (aka “Teret”) worth $10,000, and to Singaporean-Chinese film “A Land Imagined,” which collected the jury prize. The jury included China’s Dai Jinhua, and Wang Xiaoshuai, American actor Mason C. Lee, Iran’s Amir Naderi, and Georgia’s Ana Urushadze.
A separate prize series, the Fei Mu Awards was presented to Chinese-language films which are directorial debuts or second features and which showed in the festival’s New Generation China, Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons, or Best of Fest sections. “The Crossing” by Bai Xue was named best film...
- 10/17/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
The Peterloo Massacre of 1819, in which British magistrates sent cavalry with drawn swords into a political gathering of Manchester civilians, is an event not likely to be recollected in tranquility; and Mike Leigh’s Peterloo (2018) goes full agit-prop, with apoplectic hanging judges, heartless aristocrats, mercenaries advocating “violence, hatred, destruction,” and local governors declaring “We must be brutal!” On top of the mustache-twirling, Leigh coarsens his storytelling to remove ambiguity: character is conveyed via TV-style shorthand; sympathetic characters foreshadow the coming catastrophe; the historical context is signposted in the dialogue. And yet the film is still deeply impressive, with more evidence of Leigh’s greatness than any of his films since Vera Drake (2004). Despite his reputation for kitchen-sink naturalism, Leigh has always favored exaggerated acting that isolates and intensifies character traits, and this stylization, coupled with his intelligence about social behavior, blows away the obstacles of historical adaptation as if they didn’t exist.
- 9/17/2018
- MUBI
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