Filmmaker Li Yun's "Dam Streets" Wins Best Movie at Deauville
"Dam Street" wins best movie in The Asian Film Festival in Deauville,
In her second movie, Dam Street is about a young high school girl who gives birth to a boy in a small Chinese town in the early 80's. She was told that her baby did not survive. Her son and her meet under very precarious circumstances, with both characters finding out the truth by the end of the movie.
Li Yun is an amazing director in that she always gracefully tackles sensitive issues of sexuality and gender in her films. She made China's first lesbain flik, Fish and Elephant. It would be neat to curate a festival on each country's "first film." For example a film program of the first gay films of various countries.
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