Good Weekend For Chinese Cinema

Berlin Film Festival of this year was very proud to announce that the top award goes to Wang Quan'an who produced the movie “Tuya’s Marriage”. This was yet another success for China following their victory in September, in Venice, where “Still Life”, another Chinese title had won. Chinese producers and directors were very proud of the award although they wish they had more audience at home, in China. Both of these movies were low budget dramas, highlighting the environmental and human cost of the country's rapid economic expansion, but it is unlikely that either will fill Chinese movie theatres or fly off the shelves in the DVD stores. The producer believes that romantic comedies and blockbuster is the obstacle to serious life dramas that they are creating. Several directors believed that now was a really good time to be making movies in China, despite the dare of finding a home audience and ongoing brawl with the censors. He said censorship decisions were not motivated so much by politics, but by how the generations thought differently about violence, gambling and other manners.