BLACK COAL, THIN ICE / BAI RI YAN HUO
China, 2014, 106 min
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Director - Diao Yi\'nan
Script - Diao Yi'nan
Cinematographer - Dong Jingsong
Music - Wen Zi
Cast - Liao Fan, Gwei Lun Mei, Wang Xuebing, Wang Jingchun, Yu Ailei
Producer - Vivian Qu
Production - Omnijoi Media, Boneyard Entertainment China, China Film Co.
Awards and Nominations
Asia Pacific ’14 – Nominated for Achievement in Cinematography and Best Performance by an Actor (Liao Fan)
Beijing Student FF ’14 – Jury Award for Best Director and nomination for Best Film, Best Actor (Liao Fan), Best Actress (Gwei Lun Mei)
Berlin ’14 – Golden Berlin Bear, Silver Berlin Bear and Best Actor
Golden Horse FF ’14 – Nominated for Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Liao Fan), Best Actress (Gwei Lun Mei), Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction and Best Film Editing
Sydney ’14 – Nominated for Best Film
After a botched arrest in a grisly serial murder case, small-town detective Zhang Zili is suspended from the force, taking a job as a security guard at a coal factory. Five years later, another series of mysteriously similar murders takes place, and Zhang recruits his former partner to finish their investigation. His sleuthing soon leads to a local laundromat proprietor named Wu Zhizhen, whose soft-spoken demeanor and enigmatic aura are compelling to Zhang despite her mysterious connection to the deaths.
„Part film noir, part social realist portrait of industrial city life in Northern China, Diao Yinan’s atmospheric Black Coal, Thin Ice is a moody, quietly powerful thriller staged against the quotidian lives of a wintry industrial landscape, and winner of the top prize at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.”
Cara Cusumano, Tribeca
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