Chinese Winner at DocLisboa
Wang Bing got one more prize added to his impressive filmography through the ”Grande Prémio Cidade de Lisboa”, the first prize at the DocLisboa that ended sunday. The film in question is ”Three Sisters” (153 mins., France Hong Kong, 2012). Description taken from the site of the festival:
“Three sisters live alone in a small village family house in the high mountains of the Yunan region. They spend their days working in the fields or wandering in the village. The father returns to the village. He has come to take the girls with him to the city but he then agrees to leave the older one under the supervision of her grandfather.”
Special Jury Prize was given to “The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 years without Images” (66 mins., France, 2011) with a special mention to the film that wins wherever it goes, “Sofia’s Last Ambulance” (75 mins., Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany) by Ilian Metev from Bulgaria.
The two last mentioned are to be watched at DOK Leipzig this week, “Sofia’s Last Ambulance” competes in the International Competition category. One more award… for this excellent piece of cinema?
