It’s been a galvanizing year for Asian films at the 60th Berlin Film Festival, with movies from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan scoring awards.
Chinese director Wang Quan’an’s festival opener "Apart Together," a period romance about a fugitive soldier reuniting with his lover after 50 years of separation, took home the Silver Bear for best script.
Japanese actress Shinobu Terajima won a Silver Bear for best actress for her role in Koji Wakamatsu's "Caterpillar." The film explores the impressions of war on civilian life in post-WWII Japan, played out in the sadomasochistic relationship between a mutilated war hero and his wife.
Hong Kong's "Echoes of the Rainbow," directed by Alex Law Kai-yui, won the city's first-ever Crystal Bear award for best feature film in the Generation category. Although the movie has not yet screened back home, it's already creating waves with news that the film's old-town location is set to be torn down under urban redevelopment plans.
Budding Taiwanese auteur Arvin Chen’s "Au Revoir Taipei," a romantic comedy, won the best Asian film award from the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema at the festival.
Asian Films in Berlin Film Festival
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Go, Asians!I hope there will be more Asian films in the next few years.
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