Zhang Yu Di
Award-winning Filmmaker Details
Best Director's Debut Award
Director of "Backwards
Award Comments:
The inheritance and innovation of traditional opera art is the unique charm of "Reverse Barn". Director Zhang Yudi takes "Reverse Barn", the process of Peking Opera performers' adolescent voice change, as an entry point, and tells the story of the youth's metamorphosis and growth and self-knowledge in a fresh and smooth narrative, which injects new vitality into the cultural inheritance through the expression of modern language.
Reversal of Positions Film Introduction:
Reversal is the beginning of the journey towards adulthood, the inevitable variables of life, and the sincere first stirrings of youthful feelings. Sun Xiaolei (Bian Cheng), a student at the theater school, is facing his first important competition in his life. The delayed change of voice makes him anxious, and his father's (Liu Jun) longstanding expectations also fill him with the fear of "rewinding". In the course of preparing for the competition, Xiaolei accidentally becomes friends with two rivals, the tomboyish female veteran Shi Jiahui (Zhou Meijun) and Xie Tianchi (Chen Shaoxi), who comes from a famous Peking Opera family. How will the teenagers break the stereotyped life and face the darkness of their emotions? The youth of the young opera students is brought to life.