The Breaking Ice
AWFF is proud to present its Official Selection of 2023 Asian Academy Award® and Golden Globe submissions for Best International Feature Film and Best Motion Picture - Non-English Language respectively, along with a series of Asian Film Day programs,. exclusive presentations and tribute retrospectives. The Festival aims to promote all films through physical screenings, panels, special events and social media platforms, in order to assist the filmmakers in their campaigns for Award success.
The Breaking Ice (Singapore)
Singapore's Official Submission for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards®
Screening Date: November 10th, 2022 @ 9PM PT
Where: The Culver Theater
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Genre: Drama
Duration: 97 min
Director: Anthony Chen
Language(s): Mandarin
Subtitles: English
Producers: Anthony Chen, Xie Meng
Director of Photography: Yu Jing-Pin
Editor: Hoping Chen, Soo Mun Thye
Principal Cast: Zhou Dongyu, Liu Haoran, Qu Chuxiao
Synopsis:
In cold wintry Yanji, a city on China’s northern border, young urbanite Haofeng, visiting from Shanghai, feels lost and adrift. By chance, he goes on a tour led by Nana, a charming tour guide who instantly fascinates him. She introduces him to Xiao, a personable but frustrated restaurant worker. The three bond quickly over a drunken weekend. Confronting their individual traumas, their frozen desires slowly thaw as they seek to liberate themselves from an icy world.
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Asian World Film Festival
The Asian World Film Festival (AWFF), founded by Kyrgyz public figure Sadyk Sher-Niyaz and overseen by Executive & Program Director Georges N. Chamchoum, brings the very best of a broad selection of Asian World cinema to Los Angeles to draw greater recognition to the region's wealth of filmmakers and strengthen ties between the Asian and Hollywood film industries. Uniting through cross-cultural collaboration, the Festival champions films from over 50 countries across Asia, spanning from Turkey to Japan and from Russia to India and South-East Asia. The Festival is unique in that it predominantly screens Oscar and Golden Globe submissions for Best International Feature Film and Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language respectively. All films that participate in the Festival will have a unique chance to be guided through the challenging awards season and showcased to members of the Motion Picture Academy, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and all Guilds for enhanced exposure, media attention and awards consideration. AWFF is a non-profit organization under Aitysh USA.