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The three major European film festivals have different characteristics.

The Venice Film Festival is the world's first international film festival, focusing on art and avant-garde films; the Cannes Film Festival has the largest market in Europe, focusing on films that combine business and art; and the Berlin Film Festival focuses most on politics and society.

But for short films, the difference is actually not that big, because everyone's attitude towards short films is experimental works, mainly to encourage new directors. As long as you can see the spirituality and brilliance of the work, you will not be picky about the subject matter. .

Compared to the sunny May at the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin was a bit chilly in February.

However, the security situation in Romance-speaking countries is very poor. The big cities in France and Italy, two Romance-speaking countries, are often dens of thieves, and Cannes and Venice are no exception. Journalists have endless experiences of losing things at the two major film festivals, and even the news center has thieves stealing things.

Berlin is very good in this regard and is very safe. The film festival is located in the city center, so you don’t have to worry about security issues even if you walk at night.

It has been five days since Wu Yuchen and Jiang Qinqin came to Berlin. The two of them also attended the opening ceremony of the Berlin Film Festival the day before yesterday. No, it should be said that he was just watching.

The red carpet and other things are the treatment enjoyed by those focus movies, such as "Sense and Sensibility" by the great director Ang Lee, and "The Walking Dead" starring Sean Penn, while Wu Yuchen is just a new director making short films.

Moreover, "Che 44" will not enjoy any special exhibition hall and publicity. All shortlisted short films will share the same exhibition hall and will be played in turn.

Of course, it is not without its advantages. The short film attracts more attention. For example, there is a small group of people who like to watch short films of less than 30 minutes, so they only go to this exhibition hall. They can watch several times more stories and ideas in the same time as a long film.

At this time, a short film had just been shown in the cinema, and the two men took advantage of the break to talk.

"The Forgotten Toy just now was pretty good."

"It is touching, but it is a cartoon. To be honest, I would rather see something more realistic."

"This is the best one I've seen today. It's better than "Alkali, Iowa". That short film is destined for the Teddy Award."

"Well, there seem to be more and more movies with the same surname in recent years."

The Berlin Film Festival set up a special "Teddy Award" in 1987 to encourage LGBT-themed films. In fact, it was mainly films with the same surname. Well, Europe’s version is much ahead of America’s.

The two chatted for a while, and when it got dark again in the cinema, they saw the name of the next short film, "Bus 44".

After 11 minutes, the movie came to an end, but the entire theater was still silent.

Until the music disappeared and the lights came on, the theater felt like a calm lake suddenly exploded.

"The cake seller!"

"Chicken coops!"

"The darkness and glory of human nature!"

“This is definitely the best short film I’ve seen this year!”

"What the fuck is this story!"

"Why is that guy laughing at the end? Is he a bad guy too? Is he an accomplice of the robber?!"

"You idiot, how can he be a bad person!"

"That laugh at the end gave me goosebumps!"

"I want to meet this director. Is this a real incident?!"

Different from the relaxed chatting after watching the movie before, this time some people exclaimed, some shouted, and some people directly shouted to play it again quickly or to meet the director.

This situation will naturally be noticed by the staff and fed back to the organizer.

However, Wu Yuchen was not in the exhibition hall. At this time, he had just taken Jiang Qinqin to attend the screening of a movie that came from the mainland to participate in the exhibition. It was adapted from Mo Yan's novel, "The Sun Has Ears", a story about a woman, a bandit, and her husband.

This movie has the tone of the generation of fifth-generation directors Lao Mouzi and Chen Kaige, making it impossible to tell that it was made by a Hong Kong director. Because this director is from Hong Kong, even if he won the Silver Bear Award for Best Director this year, it did not cause any waves in the mainland.

What interested Wu Yuchen was actually the producer of this film, a popular female star who was a household name in mainland China 10 years ago, Zhang Yu.

She was the heroine of Mainland China's first love movie "Love in Lushan Mountain", and she also gave her the first kiss on the mainland screen, which was extremely popular at the time. Ten years ago, Liu Xiaoqing and Siqin Gaowa were all behind her.

Didn't you notice that Jiang Qinqin was pulling her for an autograph with an adoring look on her face?

There are many Chinese people who come to this exhibition hall to cheer, such as Zhang Fengyi, the star of the mainland movie "Sunlight Canyon", and Yang Dechang, the director of Wanwan. Zhang Yu's status is here, and he also went to Wanwan for two years to develop.

The two mainland crew members were quite surprised by the sudden appearance of Wu Yuchen and Jiang Qinqin. They realized that they had signed up for the short film themselves, but they did not look down upon them and said a lot of words of encouragement. After all, they were in a foreign country. We are all compatriots.

When Wu Yuchen returned to the hotel with Jiang Qinqin in the evening, he found that there was a staff member waiting for him.

"Director Wu, we're finally waiting for you!" Since Wu Yuchen didn't have a mobile phone, the staff couldn't contact him before.

"Dear Director Wu, could you please stay a little longer in the short film screening hall tomorrow? Many viewers today want to communicate with you after watching your film."

After the staff left, Jiang Qinqin, who did not understand English, asked:

"Why did he come to us?"

Wu Yuchen picked up Jiang Qinqin, turned around and said with a smile:

"Maybe you are going to be popular!"

Three days after the screening, the appearance of the short film exhibition hall has changed. The organizer has hung up posters for five short films including "Che 44". At the same time, the screening time and frequency of these five short films have been greatly increased, occupying half of the entire exhibition hall.

Now Wu Yuchen didn't have time to take Jiang Qinqin to watch other movies. The two of them stayed in the exhibition hall. Every day, many people asked various questions. Jiang Qinqin was slightly flustered from the beginning because he couldn't say anything. Slowly, I became more generous in taking photos with people, and then using a few common phrases to communicate with them.

On the 5th day of the film festival, someone came to the door to buy the screening rights. The price was not high, 20,000 US dollars.

This made Wu Yuchen very happy. It was a good sign that someone would buy it!

Even if it is 20,000 US dollars, it is actually more than five times higher than the price of 30,000 Huaxia coins.

However, Wu Yuchen naturally declined for the time being, saying that everything would be discussed after the film festival award ceremony.

He is not a fool. It can be seen from the situation in the short film exhibition hall these days. "Che 44" is definitely the most popular one, with the highest topicality and discussion!

Although the audience does not represent the jury, it can also show that "Che 44" has a greatly increased chance of winning.

The day before the awards ceremony, the publisher had already raised the price to US$40,000, but Wu Yuchen was still patient.

That afternoon, he received a notice from the organizing committee, inviting "Che 44" to participate in the awards ceremony on the last day.

After hanging up the phone, Wu Yuchen waved his fist excitedly.

Although the shortlisted crews at the closing ceremony can all go, if the organizing committee specifically notifies you to attend, it means that you will definitely win, no matter how big or small the award is.

There are three awards for short films at the Berlin Film Festival: Golden Bear, Silver Bear and Teddy Bear.

Among them, the Teddy Bear short film was issued to people with the same surname, and "Car 44" is not even close to it.

So it's obvious, at least one Silver Bear!

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