BEIJING,
Sept. 7 -- Chinese director Jia Zhangke's "Sanxia Haoren" (Still Life) was
screened at Venice Film Festival Wednesday.
The film has been added as a "surprise film" to the list of 21 entries in the official competition for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Leading actress Zhao Tao also has been nominated for Best Actress
competition session.
Besides, Jia's another film "Dong" has also been
included in Horizons session at the festival.
"Still Life" was shot in the old village of Fengjie,
which has been destroyed by the building of China's Three Gorges Dam. It
recounts the story of people who come back to Fengjie during the upheaval. A
miner comes back to the village to look for his wife, a nurse for her husband.
The organisers have added a last minute "surprise
film" to the official competition in recent festivals.
(Source: CRIENGLISH.com)
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