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Chapter 263 The unique 61st Berlin Film Festival (please subscribe!)
This time going to Berlin, Chen Dong and his team were on the same flight as the "Hawthorn Tree Love" crew led by Lao Mouzi.

Although the two movies have caused a lot of buzz on the Internet, this does not affect the friendship between Chen Dong and Lao Mouzi.

"I went to watch "Hearing Girl", and Yifei's acting skills were obviously good this time!"

Since the release of "Hearing Girl", Liu Yifei has received praises for her acting skills from countless people. To be honest, she has been somewhat immune to it for a long time, but this time she is even happier to be recognized by Lao Mouzi. To be honest, she Thank you.

"I heard that, Director Zhang, you had two weekends off every week when filming "The Thirteen Beauties of Jinling"?"

"Just leave it on Sunday."

Zhang Yimou sighed and explained: "There is no way, there is an American actor in my crew, and this is what the union stipulates."

Of course, regulations are dead but people are alive.

When Chen Dong was filming "Interstellar", he still used old and American actors, and actors like Anne Hathaway and Matt Damon were also very influential, but they still had to "do as the Romans do."

Chatting and sleeping all the way, their flight soon landed in Berlin.

Someone from the organizer was already waiting outside the airport. When the two crews left the airport, they quickly got into a car sent by the organizer and drove to their hotel.

After a day of rest, the next day was the opening ceremony of the Berlin Film Festival.

The film selected as the opening film is "True Grit" from the Coen brothers of the United States.

This is a classic movie that has been remade twice.

The first film was released in 1969 and won the Oscar and Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor the following year.

The second part was released in 2000... The Coen brothers remade this movie again in 09, and it was released in North America last year, earning a total box office of US$1.1 million.

It is also the Coen Brothers' highest-grossing film to date.

It tells the story of a one-eyed, alcoholic police detective who is hired by a fourteen-year-old girl, Marty Rose, to track down the murderer of her father.

It's not too cliche, you can take a look.

The Berlin Film Festival lasts for 10 days. Are these 10 days used for the jury to select the awards?

Obviously not.

It is a time for directors and film producers from all over the world to do business.

Chen Dong came so early this time and also had plans to sell "Hearing Girl".

If you want to sell at a good price, you must first let your customers see the goods.

So starting from the second day of the opening ceremony, Chen Dong will hold a movie viewing party every day.

The quotation for overseas copyrights started at US$200 million and kept increasing. On the ninth day, it actually exceeded US$1000 million...but Chen Dong still didn't sell it.

Because this afternoon, he had already received a call from the organizer, inviting him to attend the awards ceremony tomorrow night.

In other words, tomorrow night, his "Hearing Girl" will have 'at least' an award waiting for him.

The reason why I say at least is because Chen Dong remembers that this Berlin Film Festival, led by jury president Isabella Rossellini, broke the one-film-one-award system.

Although he was later corrected by someone else when he became the chairman, now that he has caught up, he can naturally look forward to it.

Lao Mouzi didn't receive the call, and it was obvious what this meant.

"Director Chen, have you received the call?"

"Well, I got it. Where is Director Zhang?"

"Oh, no, but it's somewhat expected... I would like to congratulate Director Chen."

"Haha, Director Zhang has won so many international awards, so he shouldn't need consolation if he comes up empty-handed twice occasionally, right?"

Chen Dong saw that Lao Mouzi was not too disappointed, so he made a joke with him and asked if he would attend the award ceremony tomorrow night. "Come on, it's the last day. It doesn't matter if you stay one more day."

Since "Hawthorn Tree Love" has no hope of winning the award, Lao Mouzi no longer drags the film company with him and plans to finalize the deal tonight, so he chatted with Chen Dong for a few words before planning to leave.

But before leaving, he couldn't help but inquire about the price of "Hearing Girl" from Chen Dong.

When I heard that it was more than 1000 million U.S. dollars, I seemed to have lost my guard, so I turned around and left.

They didn’t say how much the price of “Hawthorn Tree Love” was.

Chen Dong watched Lao Mouzi disappear at the end of the corridor, he wanted to speak, but stopped.

The next day, afternoon.

One after another, crews from different countries walked on the red carpet at the closing ceremony of this Berlin Film Festival.

The red carpet was long but packed with reporters from start to finish, also from all over the world.

There are two white hosts standing under the signature wall introducing each passing crew.

"The crew of "The Turin Horse" has just passed by, and next on the red carpet is the crew of "Hearing Girl" from China."

"This director Chen is a very powerful director. His "Kan'er" won the Golden Lion Award in Venice, and his "Interstellar" has grossed more than 9 million US dollars at the global box office... The beautiful woman next to him My name is Crystal, she is an excellent actor, singer, and the wife of director Chen.”

Listening to the introduction of the two hosts, some foreign reporters who did not know Chen Dong and his wife also quickly pointed at him and pressed the shutter button.

The red carpet lasted for almost two hours, and when it was over, the award ceremony was already packed.

Chen Dong and Liu Yifei are naturally located next to each other. In the first three rows, on their left is the South Korean crew of "Love, Not Love", and on their right is the Iranian crew of "Nader and Simin: A Separation".

After sitting down, Chen Dong's eyes fell on the crew of "A Separation" many times.

His gaze failed to attract the other person's attention, but was noticed by his wife beside him.

"Honey, what do you mean you keep peeking at Iranian female celebrities?" Liu Yifei warned in a low voice.

Chen Dong almost spit out a mouthful of blood when he heard this.

"Don't make wild guesses, I'm not peeking at other female celebrities."

He peeked, bah, he was sizing up the crew of "A Separation" because in his previous life, it was this film that won three awards at the Berlin International Film Festival, breaking the one-film-one-award system.

Before Chen Dong could think of a reason to explain to his wife, tonight's award ceremony finally began.

Awards were awarded starting from the small units, and soon came to the main competition unit as the awards were announced one by one.

The first award awarded in the main competition unit is called the Alfred Bauer Silver Bear Award, which was awarded to Germany's "Who Else But Us".

This award is also called the Innovation Award, named after the first president of the film festival.

Next are the special honors for Best Film Debut and Best Film Debut, both of which have nothing to do with Chen Dong.

There is a Silver Bear each for Fine Art and Photography.

Here comes the familiar operation in Chen Dong's memory.

Both awards were awarded to the same film - "Award."

Chen Dong had already heard the sounds of surprise coming from behind him. Apparently, everyone was not prepared for this jury's sudden break with the previous one-film-one-award system.

When Liu Yifei saw this result, her first reaction was to question in a low voice: "Is it a mistake?"

"It should be right..."

While Chen Dong was explaining to his wife, out of the corner of his eye he noticed that the chairman of the jury was already walking towards the stage.

(End of this chapter)