'Wolf Totem' among nominees for top awards
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"The selection of films looks very exceptional this year. I'm grateful to share this mission with such an honorable and amazing jury. We come from different countries and have different sensitivities. And that's the best way to judge a movie, because we're perfect examples of diversity and sensitivity," Besson said of this year's Beijing International Film Festival.
South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, who is famous for his romantic movies 3-Iron and Pieta, said that selecting the winners from all the "great works" will be tough.
"Most of my movies have limited dialogue, so I hope to judge a movie by the scenes. My criterion is I can understand a film even without lines," said Kim, who is another jury member.
The director also said that he would like his own movies to be officially released in China. "For me, a movie is a process to discover the answers to life's puzzles."
A third jury member, Hong Kong director Peter Chan, said that apart from making viewers think about a particular subject, a good movie should be "emotional and touching".
"As there are only two Chinese in the seven-member (judging) panel, the two votes from Zhou Xun and me are not enough to make homegrown movies win awards," Chan told China Daily about what he considered a disproportionate representation of Chinese on the jury, dominated by foreign moviemakers.
Zhou, a famous Chinese actress, is the only female jury member this year.
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