CHANGFENG TOWN (2019)

Director: Wang Jing (China)
Cast: Song Daiwei, Ban Ma Jia, Wei Xidi, Luo Wenqing, Chen Gang

Changfeng Town is located in an inconspicuous corner of China. The townspeople all know one another and are content with life. Airplanes often pass by the town, reminding people of an unknown outside world.

A rite-of-passage drama set in an imagined version of a small Chinese town – imagine a cross of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s imaginations of mid 20^th century Taiwan and Jia Zhangke’s take on 1980s China – Changfeng Town spices up its rural melancholia with moments of amusingly offbeat comedy.

Many things in the town exist in solitude – the cinema, the dentist’s office, the car repair shop, the newspaper office and the elementary school. The townspeople are unique and full of eccentricities. Each has a story of their own: the domestic problem of the aimless Redhead, the secret between the dentist and his son, the unrequited love of cinema ticket-seller Cai-Xia, the loneliness of the crippled Xi-Shan, and the humdrum life of the Mayor. A few mischievous boys wander in and out of these little stories, with the eventual coming-of-age and departure of one of these boys.

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Festivals & Awards

• Asian Summer Film Festival, Vic Barcelona, 2020
• Udine Far East Film Festival (Competition), 2020
• Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema (Competition), 2020
• International Premiere: Busan International Film Festival, 2019
• World Premiere: FIRST International FIlm Festival Xining, 2019 (Competition)
• Taipei Golden Horse Film Project Promotion WIP, 2018
• Creative Sound Production Award
  FIRST International Film Festival Xining, 2016
• Script Development Award
  FIRST International Film Festival Xining, 2016
• Best Young Director’s Project
  China Foundation Wutianming Fund for Young Talents, 2016
• Asian Cinema Fund for Script Development
  Busan International Film Festival, 2016
• Taipei Golden Horse Film Project Promotion, 2015