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Russian Film “Mukha” Takes Grand Prize of Shanghai Film Festival
A Russian filmmaker’s directorial debut has scored the top prize at the 11th Shanghai International Film Festival.
Led by acclaimed Chinese director Wong Kar-wai, the jury named Vladimir Kott‘s “Mukha” the festival’s best feature film at a late Sunday awards ceremony.
Several films scored multiple trophies, including Chinese director Gao Qunshu‘s film “Old Fish“, about a bomb dismantling expert in northeastern China.
Set in Ireland and Lithuania, the drama “Loss” won the best director prize for Latvian Maris Martinsons and took the trophy for best film music.
Sharon Stone Movies Banned In China
Sharon Stone, who last year was a guest of the Shanghai International Film Festival, now faces a boycott of her films in China after she suggested the devastating May 12 earthquake there could have been the result of bad “karma.”Stone’s remarks, made at the Festival de Cannes on Thursday, pondered a link between the earthquake — which has killed more than 65,000 people — and China’s treatment of ethnic Tibetans and their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, whom she called “a good friend.”
“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans, because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else,” Stone said in a brief red carpet interview with Cable Entertainment News of Hong Kong. “And then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”
Her remarks triggered anger across the Chinese-language media and were called “inappropriate” by the founder of one of China’s biggest urban cinema chains, who said his company would not show the Hollywood veteran’s films.
