Wang Quan'an Articles

George Pistereanu, Ada Condeescu in Florin Serban's If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle (top); Grigory Dobrygin, Sergei Puskepalis in Alexei Popgrebsky's How I Ended This Summer (upper middle); Shinobu Terajima in Koji Wakamatsu's Caterpillar (lower middle); Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs in Babak Najafi's Sebbe (bottom) Romanian filmmaker Florin Serban won two prizes for If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle at the 2010 Berlin [...]

The 2010 Berlin Film Festival opened Thursday evening with Wang Quan'an's Apart Together, the tale of a couple separated for decades by both the Taiwan Strait and Chinese politics. Wang, whose Tuya's Marriage won the Golden Bear in 2007, said his drama focuses on "people who are caught up in the flow of history," adding that "reunification is something people in China really yearn for. [...]

Yu Nan in Tuya's Marriage "When I started making films, my teacher said film should show people's dreams. This film made my dreams come true," remarked Chinese director Wang Quan'an upon accepting the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear for his rural drama Tuya's Marriage, a portrait of the social and environmental costs of China's unbridled economic growth. In Tuya's Marriage, a woman (Yu Nan) living [...]