Egg and Stone by Huang Ji nominated for Tiger Awards

Fifteen films have been selected for IFFR's Tiger Awards Competition 2012. The complete lineup, comprising first or second feature films concurring for three equal Hivos Tiger Awards of each 15,000 euro, includes eight world premieres. Five of the competing films have received support from Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund.

One of the nominees is Huang Ji, who will present her second film Egg and Stone (Jidan he Shitou)

Egg and Stone (Huang Ji, China, 2012, 97’, world premiere)
In the Hunan province village where she was born, Huang Ji shot her first elegant feature, a quietly disturbing drama about 14-year-old Honggui, who lives with her aunt and uncle in the countryside. It seems she is not very wanted. Her parents intended to farm her out to family for only two years so they could work in the big city, but in the meantime, seven years have passed. In 2009, she presented her mid-length fiction The Warmth of Orange Peel at the Berlinale.

Tiger Award Nominees

International Film Festival Rotterdam

The winners of the Hivos Tiger Awards will be announced on Friday 3 February.