Promising Chinese director Wang Quanan's latest movie Tu Yan's Marriage has entered the competition for a Golden Bear Award at the 57th Berlin Film Festival in February.

It was the only Chinese movie submitted by China's Film Bureau this year.

The director denied his movie is going to find an overseas buyer in Berlin. "The movie has already been sold to a French distributor at a good price after I finished editing," he said.

It is rare for a Chinese mainland movie because most of them have difficulty finding a market niche in the European film market.

This movie will premiere in Berlin during the film festival on February 10.

The director has been dedicated to making breakthroughs with festival movies, making movies that are accepted by China's Film Bureau with rich characters and good plots.

The movie Tu Ya's Marriage is director Wang's fourth movie, all of which focus on female perspectives. In this movie, lead actress Yu Nan, who plays the lead role in all of the director's movies, plays Tu Ya, a Mongolian wife who is urged by her paralyzed husband to remarry.

(CRI January 19, 2007)