Li Ruijun
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"Never Mind" Independent Film Screening VOL.11: The Summer Solstice
Director: Li Ruijun
105mins/2007
Language: Chinese with English Subtitles
Synopsis
HuYang arrived in Beijing with a sustained effort in a hot summer. In order to change his fate, he managed a company with friends without finishing his college education, but unluckily，his company went broke. Because of the high debts, he decided to be a bonze, just as he went back to Beijing in a bad mood, he met his sister-in-law, YangHua. Then they lived in narrow room, looking for his younger brother, HuTao. Gradually, they fell into love with each other. Soon after, HuYang was called to return ancestral home for his father’s sad dead. Because of the dubious relationship between YangHua and HuYang, the whole family had a serious meeting to solve the problem. Finally, it ended with YangHua’s pregnancy. Finally the whole family had to agree on their marriage. After the short, happy marriage, but HuYang was not satisfied with the reality, so he left for Beijing again to reach for his old dreams. The world is always full of fortuity. Months later, when he came back home on a hot summer night, the small town far from Beijing but it is the same hot as it was in Beijing. Two women came from far away who got married in the same village; they mistook their own feelings about their darling for deep love……
Director’s Statement
At the beginning of 21st Century, China has changes. A great many educated youth with colorful dreams were running all the way to reach for their dreams and value. They were wandering in the river of reality life, up and down, which seems calm but rushed. While coming towards and looking back, everything was designed elaborately by them collapsed before the old traditional moral concepts. Facing to the changing things, they were longing for something but could not change the reality, to face to the reality or to go with the steam? They wandered, worried, anxious, silent, sensitive even look on the world with a cold eye. In the sunshine and in the life which is full of suspense, They impulse with love, they were childish, and then they failed, took a risk, they promised, also had responsibilities, They tried to escape reality, struggled and grew as well, they were eager to change the reality, as a result, they were changed by cruel life.
Everything was filled in the life space, which seemed wide, but closed, such as original, changeable, traditional, modern and so on. The young people spent their youth in such hard situations ……
About the Director
Li Ruijun, 26-year-old, was born in GaoTai in GanSu province, prc, in 1983. At the age of 14, he started to learn painting and music. In 2003, he graduated from the institute of management of China National Ministry of Radio, Film and Television. From 2003 to 2006, he has been working as director for television stations and television program providers. In 2006, he started to work on his debut feature film, writing the script as well as directing it. In 2007 the post-production of Summer Solstice (Xia Zhi) was finished! Currently, Summer Solstice has participated in the following festivals:
The 9th International Panorama of Independent Film and Video Makers (2007), where it received The Special Feature Award;
The 31th Sao Paulo International Film Festival (Competition - New Directors 2007) ;
To be collected by UCSD(U.S.A2007) ;
The 4th China International Film Festival (2007) ;
The 2th BeiJing International Film Festival (2007) ;
Berlin Asian hotshots Film Festival (2008) ;
The 37th Rotterdam International Film Festival (Sturm und Drang . 2008) ;
The 2th cinema digital seoul_film festival (2008 International Competition) ;
The 5th Hong Kong Asian Film Festival (2008)
The View Finder to Asian Film 2008
李睿珺
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导演：李睿珺
105mins/2007
语言：中文，英文字幕
故事梗概
炎热的夏日里胡杨不懈努力来到了的北京，他企图溶入这个精神与梦想的圣地。于是他大学未毕业就与人开公司，却不幸破产，最终他只好选择了出家，但出家也并未如愿，就在这时，他与从四川来北京寻找丈夫的弟妹杨华相遇，他们居住在狭窄的屋子一同寻找着弟弟胡涛，不料两人发生关系。不久，胡杨接到老家的报丧电话，便回去为父亲奔丧。在老家两人的暧昧关系引来的家族会议因杨华怀孕作罢。两人总算顺利完婚，但不安现状的胡杨又回到北京寻梦。世界充满了偶然，数月后的一个深夜，当他满怀着惊喜归来，竟不知这远离北京的小镇的夏天同样躁热压抑…
导演阐述
21世纪中国的一切都在变化之中，怀揣梦想的有志青年们全力奔跑在追逐梦想实现自我价值道路上，他们在看似波澜不惊却又感暗流涌动的现实生活河流里冲刷沉淀，一路走来回首望去，精心构建的一切瞬间便坍塌在固守的传统道德面前，面对变化中的一切,他们极力抗争却又无力改变扭转时局，面对现实是该固守还是随波逐流？彷徨、焦虑、躁动、沉默、敏感、冷漠，在耀眼的阳光下与充满悬念的生活中同样是有冲动、有爱情、有性、有幼稚、有失败、有冒险、有承诺、有责任、有逃避、有反抗也有成长…他们曾试图改变却被改变，原始的、变化的、传统的、现代的——所有的一切充斥在这个看似开阔却有封闭的空间里，使人的主题陷落，他们就此渡过了自己的青春， 生活的主题彻底迷失在这样一个现代文明社会丰富的物质生活里，没完没了，就像在夏至即将来到不停歇鸣叫的蝉…
影片以情感变化为出口来描绘一个在急速转型的、神经质的社会状态下，转变中道德解构到个人的茫然与无所适从，人们生活的主题在一个复杂浮躁的空间内压抑扭曲迷失与陷落，以此形成对当下的社会讽喻…
导演简介
李睿珺、男、27岁，1983年出生与甘肃高台。14岁起开始学习绘画及音乐，2003年毕业于国家广播电影电视总局管理干部学院。2006年独立制片、编剧、导演拍摄了电影处女作《夏至》，影片于2007年成后期制作。
目前《夏至》入围了：
2007年第9届国际独立电影人电影节（希腊），并获评委会大奖
2007年第31届圣保罗国际电影节(新导演竞赛单元)
2007并被美国UCSD收藏
2007年第4届中国独立影像年度展（南京）
2007年第2届北京独立电影论坛
2008年柏林亚洲热门电影节
2008年第37届鹿特丹国际电影节(狂飙突进单元)
2008年第2届韩国首尔数码国际电影节（国际主竞赛单元）
2008年第5届香港亚洲国际电影节
2008年澳门文化中心「亚洲电影观景窗」亚洲电影展