Chinese filmmaker WANG BING has bagged another award this year, this time at the 70th Locarno Film Festival. Copyright Locarno Festival. Courtesy the artist.
Chinese director Wang Bing has won the Golden Leopard award at the 70th Locarno Film Festival. The top prize was bestowed for his 90-minute documentary film Mrs. Fang (2017), which tells the story of a sexagenarian woman who is residing in a rural southern Chinese village and suffers from Alzheimer’s disease as she approaches the end of her life. As in many of Wang’s other works, Mrs. Fang depicts a side of China far removed from the glitzy metropolises associated with the nation’s economic rise, placing the stories of those who are economically disadvantaged and poverty-stricken in the spotlight.
Je Seung Lee 