In a well-attended comeback edition, the influential Asian speciality event also awarded top honors to Chinese films 'Return to Dust' and 'Too Cool to Kill.'
The Chinese film industry was the other big winner in Udine on Sunday. Chinese auteur Li Ruijun’s rural-set stunnertook home the runner-up audience award, while Beijing-based filmmaker Xing Wenxiong’s blockbuster comedycame in third place. Both films were enthusiastically embraced by Udine’s famously vocal and broadminded festival-goers.
Japanese screen legend Takeshi Kitano was presented with Udine’s lifetime achievement award this year. The 75-year-old actor/director/comedian was unable to attend the festival in person, but he appeared via a live video feed beamed into Udine’s grand Teatro Nuovo to accept his trophy, telling the crowd, “I’m now editing together my new film and I hope to come to Udine to present it to you.”
The Udine festival mounted a strong pandemic-era recovery in 2022, after being forced to pivot to online during the preceding two years. The festival brought over 70 filmmaker guests from Asia and screened 72 films (13 world premieres, 18
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