The jury
Paulo Portugal (Portugal), Massimo Lechi (Italy), Azadeh Jafari (Iran)
Awarded films
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A New Old Play by
Qiu Jiongjiong
(China, 2021, 180 min)
Our jury focused on the Chinese-language films in the “Young Cinema Competition”.
The winning film was awarded with the following motivation: “For its masterful approach and inventive visual style in blending Chinese Sichuan classical opera into a unique cinematic experience, in which a mixture of farce and tragedy, political melodrama and historical epic, individual recollection and collective memory are presented in a meticulously contrived mise en scène in order to convey the major upheavals of Twentieth-century China”.