The Rotterdam International Film Festival, founded in 1972, has been labeled as "independent", "rebel", "experimental" and "cutting-edge" since its birth.

Rotterdam's favor for the sixth generation of directors can be seen, Zhang Yuan won the "Most Promising Director Award" for the film "Beijing Bastard", another film "Son" won the "Golden Tiger Award", and this year, Lou Ye also won the "Golden Tiger Award" and "New Director Award" with "Suzhou River".

The most interesting thing about this film festival compared with other film festivals is that it does not have a red carpet, it gathers many fans who like independent films and documentaries, and the opening is a film carnival, and the film support fund it has set up has also given many film directors the possibility to display their talents, not only in China, but also in the world.

Lou Ye, Zhang Yuan, Park Chan-wook, Wenders, Fassbinder, Christopher Nolan all started here, because of the focus on cutting-edge directors and independent films, it has almost become a mecca for new directors and independent films, with the development of time more and more growing, it is hard to imagine that when it was first established, only 17 audiences attended the premiere, and the opening ceremony and the mayor's speech were forced to cancel because they were too cold and embarrassing.

This is a very stubborn film festival, extremely individual, requiring the producer to be an independent producer, not for commercial purposes, the content and value orientation must express the author's personal attitude, not to please the audience, just these are put forward to make people want to spray them every minute, the film does not please the audience and shoot a fart, doesn't this require the director to be self-congratulatory? But even so, it is still flourishing.

It is very principled in terms of value orientation, but it is extremely "casual" in the selection of films, and does not require the entries to premiere in Rotterdam, and some DVDs, mobile phone photography works, and even visual installation artworks that cannot even meet the "film" standard, as long as they show good creative concepts and techniques, Rotterdam will also accept all the orders.

This may have something to do with its birthplace, the Netherlands itself is a country where marijuana and sex are prevalent, plus it is very rich, after smoking marijuana and shooting, then get some maverick things out, how to get high.

The reason why the seven directors were banned from the "Seven Gentlemen Incident" that spread a few years ago was because they violated the approval process and participated in an overseas film festival without permission, and an overseas film festival is actually the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

This film festival is generally held around late January to early February, when Zhou Gongzi and Lou Ye came back with the award, Zhou Bai was about to leave, because the 50th Berlin International Film Festival was about to open, and he was going to participate as one of the leading actors.

Compared with Rotterdam, Berlin is more influential and less maverick, it pays more attention to the quality of film art than the sense of innovation in it, if you make a comparison, it is probably the comparison between the non-mainstream and the literary youth.

This is Zhou Bai's first time participating in a foreign film festival, as a junior brother, to be honest, he is still a little excited and nervous, after all, if you really want to count it, Zhou Bai is still a "soil bun" who has never been abroad!

The chairman of the jury of this year's Berlin Film Festival is Gong Li, and the Berlin Film Festival press office has announced her appointment in December 99, which is the first time that a Chinese has been appointed as the chairman of the jury in a major Western film festival event, of course, if in terms of nationality, Gong Li has immigrated to Singapore at this time and is married, but how her nationality is, it cannot change her status in Chinese film history.

This time she served as the chairman of the jury of the Berlin Film Festival, the youngest jury chairman in the past, this year's movie "Pretty Mom" was originally intended to participate in the film festival, and the news that she served as the chairman of the jury came, and the film starring Gong Li had to be changed to a tribute film as an observation film.

The Berlin Film Festival opened on the 9th, and "My Father and Mother" confirmed that he had already participated, so Zhou Bai had to go ahead with Lao Mouzi, and Zhang Ziyi, who had already finished filming "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", also followed.

11 years ago, Zhang Yimou won the Berlin Golden Bear Award with "Red Sorghum", which was not only the first Chinese to win the first award at the three major European film festivals, but also made him an international famous director, and officially opened the so-called "China fever" of the three major European film festivals in recent years.

Of course, the most talked-about thing is that Gong Li, the chairman of the judges this year, is Lao Mouzi's old lover, and the movie starring Zhang Ziyi is rumored by the media to be Lao Mouzi's "new girlfriend".

Zhou Bai is actually very worried about the statement that "My Father and Mother" won the award, because in order to attract attention, this film festival is almost bent over American films.

Films such as Al Pacino's "Any Sunday", Tom Cruise and Julianne Moore's "Mulan", Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow's "The Talented Ripley" and Jim Carrey's "Man on the Moon" will compete for the awards, a practice that has caused huge controversy in the European media, with many harshly criticizing the Berlinale for its degeneration and raising a white flag against Hollywood.

The possibility of winning the grand prize in this form is very low, although Berlin is the blessed land of Lao Mouzi, and even Berlin regards Lao Mouzi as a descendant, but for the sake of influence, the possibility of a son is not as good as a righteous son is very high, don't overestimate the organizer's temperament, they are not as pure as imagined.

Of course, the quality of these films is still very good, and the focus is also about human nature and the dark side of society, and the in-depth discussion of the loss of the soul, irresponsibility, corruption, conspiracy, murder and infidelity and other profound things, but Berlin has opened the door for this, it is difficult to say whether it is a blessing or a curse, anyway, the media is wailing.

It's no wonder that the media is disgusted, and even criticizes Berlin, there are too many related films related to the United States at this Berlin Film Festival, more than a dozen or twenty films, half of which are predicted by the media to enter the main competition, of course, almost become a special session for American films, how can they not jump their feet.

Xiangjiang also has a film to participate in Berlin this year, directed by Guan Jingpeng "Sometimes Dancing", the cast is also good, there are Li Jiaxin, Shu Qi, Zhang Zhilin, Momoi Kaoru, Takao Osawa, the dialogue is in Chinese, Cantonese, English and Japanese and other languages, they still have great hopes for winning the award.

For Zhou Bai, he thinks that the fatal problem is that this period of the Berlin Film Festival happens to be Valentine's Day, and he has to be separated from Yuan Xiang, he didn't spend Valentine's Day together last year, and he didn't spend it together this year, maybe this is the helplessness of the entertainment industry.

This chapter is very watery, a bit of a carvin, try to go to the plot tomorrow!