Wednesday 15 August 2018

Signs of Life Award goes to HAI SHANG CHENG SHI

Locarno Festival's Signs of Life Award ELECTRONIC-ART.FOUNDATION for the best film has been awarded to HAI SHANG CHENG SHI (The Fragile House) by LIN Zi.
The Signs of Life section, which explores new grounds of  unpublished narrative forms and the innovation of cinematographic language, was born in 2014 as an out-of-competition section and is, from last year, a competitive section. The 2018 jury was composed of Emilie Bujès, festival director (Switzerland), Tiziana Finzi, curator (Italy) and Josh Siegel, curator (United States).
The Signs of Life Award ELECTRONIC-ART.FOUNDATION to the Best Film 2018 is awarded to HAI SHANG CHENG SHI (The Fragile House) by LIN Zi, China.The Signs of Life jury awarded LIN Zi film for “an unnerving portrait of one family’s estrangement and avarice within China’s burgeoning upper-middle class”.The Fundación Casa Wabi – Mantarraya Award was given to director Benjamin Crotty for LE DISCOURS D’ACCEPTATION GLORIEUX DE NICHOLAS CHAUVIN, France “a film that plays with fact, legend — and fake news — in inventively madcap ways.




Photo credit: Locarno Festival

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