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homepage: http://www.festival-cannes.com/
dauer: 14.-25.5.2003

***Jury**********
Wen Jiang
Born in 1963 into a military family in Hebei province, Jiang Wen had an interest in acting from an early age.
From 1985 through today, he has starred in numerous lead roles, collaborating with China most talentuous film directors from "the 4th and 5th generations", and won a number of significant awards for his performances. He also played the lead in the hit television series Beijingers in New York for which he received several major Chinese awards. A major turning point in Jiang's career was marked by his decision to try his hand at screenwriting and directing. His film, In Yangguang canlan de rizi (In the Heat of the Sun) was widly successful and won Jiang international recognition for his directing and writing talent.
Jiang's latest work, Guizi lai le (Devils on the doorstep), was awarded the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival 2000 and three prizes in Japan.
He is now working on screenwriting in order to direct his third movie, probably in collaboration with France.

2000 GUIZI LAI LE Direction Script and Dialogue Player (Grand Prix)
http://www.festival-cannes.org/films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&id_film=5160
1997 KEEP COOL Player [directed by Zhang Yimou]
http://www.festival-cannes.org/films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&id_film=3005899

***Feature Films In Competition******

Ye LOU
CHINA
Chinese. Born in 1965 in Shanghai (China).

1995 : Zhai Mo Qing Ren
2000 : Suzhou River

2003 PURPLE BUTTERFLY

Actors
Zi Yi ZHANG Ding Hui [CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON]
Ye LIU Szeto
Yuangzheng FENG Xie Ming
Nakamura TORU Itami
Bingbing LI Yiling

Synopsis: 1928. Manchuria. Itami, a young Japanese man, falls deeply in love with Cynthia, a beautiful Chinese girl. Their brief happiness ends when he is called home for his military service and they are forced to part. Returning sorrowfully from the train station where she has bid her lover farewell, Cynthia witnesses her brother's bloody murder at the hands of Japanese right-wing extremists.
Three years later, Shanghai has been unofficially occupied by Japan. The city is tense, rife with violence and barely contained anarchy. Cynthia - now known as Ding Hui - is working for Purple Butterfly, a resistance group planning to assassinate Yamamoto, head of the Japanese secret service. Itami is also in Shanghai, operating as a secret agent and reporting directly to Yamamoto.
Arriving at Shanghai station to meet his fiancée, Szeto, a young Chinese man, is mistaken by the assembled resistance fighters for the assassin they have engaged to eliminate Yamamoto. Violence erupts and Szeto's fiancée is shot dead in the crossfire. Szeto escapes with the Purple Butterfly members, all of whom believe him to be the hired killer. Only Ding Hui realises the truth...
Thus three destinies are linked by chance, and three fates set in tragic motion.

***Un certain regard******************

Lik Wai YU
Director
CHINA

Chinese nationality. Born August 12th, 1966 in Hong Kong (China).
1996 : Neon Goddesses (DOC)
1999 : Love Will Tear Us Apart

in Cannes:
2003 ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES Direction, Script and Dialogue
2002 UNKNOWN PLEASURES Cinematography
1999 LOVE WILL TEAR US APART Direction, Script and Dialogue

ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES

Wei Wei ZHAO Xiao Mian
Ren NA Lan Lan
Yong Won CHO Xuelan
Yinan DIAO Xiao Zhuai

In the post-apocalyptic mid-21st Century, the Gui Dao sect rules continental Asia... Zhuai and his younger brother Mian are captured and sent to Camp Prosperity so that their dissident minds can be re-educated. They soon discover that camp life is more than just propaganda, bureaucratic annoyance and trafficking. When the sect is suddenly overthrown, Zhuai and Mian chaotically experience total freedom for the first time in many years. When he falls for pretty Xuelan, Zhuai takes her and her small boy to a near-by deserted industrial city. They settle in an abandoned apartment and try to remember life's small and quirky pleasures. Their future is mixed with the bittersweet feelings of once again being free to dream.

+++++++++++++
Xiaoshuai WANG
Director
TAIWAN | CHINA

Chinese nationality. Born May 22nd, 1966 in Shanghai (China). Studied Art at the Beijing Academy. Worked as assistant director at the Fujiang Film Studio.
1993 Dongchun de rizi / The Days
1994 Da youxi / Suicides
1995 Jidu hanleng / Frozen
1998 Biandan, guniang / So Close to Paradise
1999 The House
2001 Shiqi sui de dan che / Beijing Bicycle
2002 Jeon jang keu i hu... / After the War

2003 DRIFTERS Direction, Screenplay
1999 SO CLOSE TO PARADISE Direction, Script and Dialogue

DRIFTERS
Long DUAN Young Brother
Yan SHU Little Girl
Yiwei ZHAO Big Brother
Yang TANG Sister-in-law

Er Di is the town 'celebrity'. But only for the none-too-exceptional feat that he had been a stowaway, and a multiple failure at that. One time he succeeded and managed to live abroad for a number of years before he got caught and was repatriated. Back in his hometown he spends his days as a slacker, busy doing nothing. There is just one person on his mind: Xiao Nu from a travelling Shanghai opera troupe, another lonely soul leading a listless life. Something of a romance develops between them, but they don't see any meaningful things happening in their lives.

+++++++++++++
Chen-Sheng LIN
Director
TAIWAN

Taiwanese nationality. Born March 12th 1959 in à Taidung (Taïwan).
1990 : Chow, Wong, Ah-Hai and His Four Workers (docu)
1991 : Murmur Of Youth (docu)
1992 : Ah-Feng and Ah-Yeng ;
1994 : The Family Treasure ;
1996 : A Drifting Life ;
1997 : Murmur Of Youth ;
1998 : Sweet Degeneration

in Cannes:
2003 ROBINSON'S CRUSOE Direction, Screenplay
1999 XING FU JIN XING QU Direction
1997 MURMURE OF YOUTH Direction
1996 A DRIFTING LIFE Direction

ROBINSON'S CRUSOE
Leon DAI Robinson
Kuei-Mei YANG Billie
Shiang-Chyi CHEN Hsui-ling
Feng-Shu CHANG Vicky
Sin-Je LEE Hsiao Fei
Kuei Chuen WU Benny

Robinson sells luxury homes, but he can't seem to buy or even rent one and settle down with his girlfriend. The handsome loner secretly lives in a designer hotel and dreams of running away and starting a new life. He found the ideal place on the internet: Crusoe Island. Since Robinson's Crusoe is for sale, he spends all day working toward the big pay off. Surrounded by colleagues with romantic problems, Robinson tries to keep his distance and not interfere. For him, love has become a burden as bothersome as modern urban life.

____________________

Matthias Arnold M.A.
Digital Resources
Institute of Chinese Studies
University of Heidelberg
Akademiestr. 4-8
69117 Heidelberg
Germany

Phone: ++ 49 - (0) 62 21 - 54 76 75
Fax: ++ 49 - (0) 62 21 - 54 76 39

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	May 15, 2003: [cinema] chinesische regisseure und filme in cannes

	homepage: http://www.festival-cannes.com/ dauer: 14.-25.5.2003 *Jury****** Wen Jiang Born in 1963 into a military family in Hebei province, Jiang Wen had an interest in acting from an early age. From 1985 through today, he has starred in numerous lead roles, collaborating with China most talentuous film directors from "the 4th and 5th generations", and won a number of significant awards for his performances. He also played the lead in the hit television series Beijingers in New York for which he received several major Chinese awards. A major turning point in Jiang's career was marked by his decision to try his hand at screenwriting and directing. His film, In Yangguang canlan de rizi (In the Heat of the Sun) was widly successful and won Jiang international recognition for his directing and writing talent. Jiang's latest work, Guizi lai le (Devils on the doorstep), was awarded the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival 2000 and three prizes in Japan. He is now working on screenwriting in order to direct his third movie, probably in collaboration with France. 2000 GUIZI LAI LE Direction Script and Dialogue Player (Grand Prix) http://www.festival-cannes.org/films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&id_film=5160 1997 KEEP COOL Player [directed by Zhang Yimou] http://www.festival-cannes.org/films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&id_film=3005899 Feature Films In Competition*** Ye LOU CHINA Chinese. Born in 1965 in Shanghai (China). 1995 : Zhai Mo Qing Ren 2000 : Suzhou River 2003 PURPLE BUTTERFLY Actors Zi Yi ZHANG Ding Hui [CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON] Ye LIU Szeto Yuangzheng FENG Xie Ming Nakamura TORU Itami Bingbing LI Yiling Synopsis: 1928. Manchuria. Itami, a young Japanese man, falls deeply in love with Cynthia, a beautiful Chinese girl. Their brief happiness ends when he is called home for his military service and they are forced to part. Returning sorrowfully from the train station where she has bid her lover farewell, Cynthia witnesses her brother's bloody murder at the hands of Japanese right-wing extremists. Three years later, Shanghai has been unofficially occupied by Japan. The city is tense, rife with violence and barely contained anarchy. Cynthia - now known as Ding Hui - is working for Purple Butterfly, a resistance group planning to assassinate Yamamoto, head of the Japanese secret service. Itami is also in Shanghai, operating as a secret agent and reporting directly to Yamamoto. Arriving at Shanghai station to meet his fiancée, Szeto, a young Chinese man, is mistaken by the assembled resistance fighters for the assassin they have engaged to eliminate Yamamoto. Violence erupts and Szeto's fiancée is shot dead in the crossfire. Szeto escapes with the Purple Butterfly members, all of whom believe him to be the hired killer. Only Ding Hui realises the truth... Thus three destinies are linked by chance, and three fates set in tragic motion. Un certain regard***************** Lik Wai YU Director CHINA Chinese nationality. Born August 12th, 1966 in Hong Kong (China). 1996 : Neon Goddesses (DOC) 1999 : Love Will Tear Us Apart in Cannes: 2003 ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES Direction, Script and Dialogue 2002 UNKNOWN PLEASURES Cinematography 1999 LOVE WILL TEAR US APART Direction, Script and Dialogue ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES Wei Wei ZHAO Xiao Mian Ren NA Lan Lan Yong Won CHO Xuelan Yinan DIAO Xiao Zhuai In the post-apocalyptic mid-21st Century, the Gui Dao sect rules continental Asia... Zhuai and his younger brother Mian are captured and sent to Camp Prosperity so that their dissident minds can be re-educated. They soon discover that camp life is more than just propaganda, bureaucratic annoyance and trafficking. When the sect is suddenly overthrown, Zhuai and Mian chaotically experience total freedom for the first time in many years. When he falls for pretty Xuelan, Zhuai takes her and her small boy to a near-by deserted industrial city. They settle in an abandoned apartment and try to remember life's small and quirky pleasures. Their future is mixed with the bittersweet feelings of once again being free to dream. +++++++++++++ Xiaoshuai WANG Director TAIWAN \| CHINA Chinese nationality. Born May 22nd, 1966 in Shanghai (China). Studied Art at the Beijing Academy. Worked as assistant director at the Fujiang Film Studio. 1993 Dongchun de rizi / The Days 1994 Da youxi / Suicides 1995 Jidu hanleng / Frozen 1998 Biandan, guniang / So Close to Paradise 1999 The House 2001 Shiqi sui de dan che / Beijing Bicycle 2002 Jeon jang keu i hu... / After the War 2003 DRIFTERS Direction, Screenplay 1999 SO CLOSE TO PARADISE Direction, Script and Dialogue DRIFTERS Long DUAN Young Brother Yan SHU Little Girl Yiwei ZHAO Big Brother Yang TANG Sister-in-law Er Di is the town 'celebrity'. But only for the none-too-exceptional feat that he had been a stowaway, and a multiple failure at that. One time he succeeded and managed to live abroad for a number of years before he got caught and was repatriated. Back in his hometown he spends his days as a slacker, busy doing nothing. There is just one person on his mind: Xiao Nu from a travelling Shanghai opera troupe, another lonely soul leading a listless life. Something of a romance develops between them, but they don't see any meaningful things happening in their lives. +++++++++++++ Chen-Sheng LIN Director TAIWAN Taiwanese nationality. Born March 12th 1959 in à Taidung (Taïwan). 1990 : Chow, Wong, Ah-Hai and His Four Workers (docu) 1991 : Murmur Of Youth (docu) 1992 : Ah-Feng and Ah-Yeng ; 1994 : The Family Treasure ; 1996 : A Drifting Life ; 1997 : Murmur Of Youth ; 1998 : Sweet Degeneration in Cannes: 2003 ROBINSON'S CRUSOE Direction, Screenplay 1999 XING FU JIN XING QU Direction 1997 MURMURE OF YOUTH Direction 1996 A DRIFTING LIFE Direction ROBINSON'S CRUSOE Leon DAI Robinson Kuei-Mei YANG Billie Shiang-Chyi CHEN Hsui-ling Feng-Shu CHANG Vicky Sin-Je LEE Hsiao Fei Kuei Chuen WU Benny Robinson sells luxury homes, but he can't seem to buy or even rent one and settle down with his girlfriend. The handsome loner secretly lives in a designer hotel and dreams of running away and starting a new life. He found the ideal place on the internet: Crusoe Island. Since Robinson's Crusoe is for sale, he spends all day working toward the big pay off. Surrounded by colleagues with romantic problems, Robinson tries to keep his distance and not interfere. For him, love has become a burden as bothersome as modern urban life. ____________________ Matthias Arnold M.A. Digital Resources Institute of Chinese Studies University of Heidelberg Akademiestr. 4-8 69117 Heidelberg Germany Phone: ++ 49 - (0) 62 21 - 54 76 75 Fax: ++ 49 - (0) 62 21 - 54 76 39 http://www.chinaresource.org http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de www.fluktor.de www.zhaomo.de.vu