The documentary sector of 7th Beijing International Film Festival opened officially on April 17th, with a list of 23 Official Selection Films published one day after. China’s Van Goghs, the full-length documentary co-produced by ICCI professor Kiki Tianqi YU and her father Haibo Yu was awarded the Best Sino-foreign Co-Produced Documentary.

Beijing International Film Festival is one of the most prestigious film festivals in China. As an important part of the festival, the documentary sector attracts 223 documentaries in contest home and abroad. The jury board of the doc-sector consisted of three international award-winning judges and four domestic experts.

The documentary, China’s Van Goghs, depicts the life of workers who are doing art reproduction of Van Gogh’s paintings in Shenzhen, China.

This documentary was also shortlisted in other influential film festivals including:

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2016

DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival 2017

Thessaloniki Film Festival 2017

14th Docs Against Gravity Film Festival 2017

48th Vision Du Reel International Documentary Film Festival 2017

TRT Documentary Awards Turkey 2017

D-Cinema Festival 2017 SKIP CITY INTERNATIONAL

Film Director and Producer: Kiki Tianqi YU

Filmmaker and scholar, graduated from University of Cambridge and University of Westminster with research focus in Documentary Film and Chinese Cinema.