1905 movie network news Xu Haofeng, the director who has just won the best artistic contribution award at the Montreal International Film Festival with his new work, has also been greatly sought after at the Barcelona Litchi Film Festival a few days ago and has become the leading role of the director’s review unit. The film festival arranged three days to show three representative works of Xu Dao respectively, and Xu Dao also communicated with the audience after each film was shown. Isabel Coixet, Wang Hongwei and Xu Haofeng were specially invited to participate in the Litchi Talk, and a special activity "The Secret of Martial Arts-Conversation with Xu Haofeng" was specially prepared, and director Xu Haofeng was invited to share his experience in making martial arts films with young filmmakers and fans. The documentary of the new work "Hiding on the Back of a Knife" has also been warmly welcomed by overseas media and fans, setting off a martial arts trend of Xu.
The overseas exchange "Hiding on the Back of a Knife" has attracted much attention.
The theme of this litchi film festival in Barcelona is "Light Kung Fu-New Martial Arts". It shows the thinking and breakthrough of China Kung Fu and Martial Arts films in tradition and film language, as well as the innovation and progress in skills.In the activity of "The Secret of Martial Arts-Conversation with Xu Haofeng" tailored for director Xu Haofeng, director Xu Haofeng shared with overseas filmmakers and fans the ideas and thoughts of martial arts film creation, the way of getting along with actors, and his understanding of martial arts and history. He said that he tried to find a special and fresh angle to interpret history and war, hoping to influence the inherent understanding of war formed by China audience in Hollywood movies.
The documentary of Xu Haofeng’s latest masterpiece "Hiding on the Back of a Knife" was also shown at the film festival. The director shared the behind-the-scenes story with the film lovers through documentary lens, showing how this new martial arts film was tempered. Director Xu Haofeng revealed that he has the habit of finishing martial arts after filming. Previously, he wrote the book "Sit and Watch the encirclement" for the film, which analyzed the martial arts moves involved in the film in detail, and discussed many topics such as the cultivation of kung fu actors and the congenital deficiency of martial arts movies. This time, I filmed and edited a documentary about martial arts demonstration for "Hiding on the Back of a Knife". From the video recording, we can more clearly see the martial arts action design directed by Xu Haofeng, the concept of martial arts movies, and the ingenuity of a filmmaker. In this regard, Xu Dao joked that "cutting the documentary saved me from writing a book".
Xu’s swordsmen create a new style of Chinese movies.
Through his unique martial arts action design, continuous exploration and excavation of modern China history, and personality experiment in film narration, Director Xu Haofeng realized the transformation and innovation of martial arts films. Hiding on the Back of a Knife, though not shown in China, has become famous overseas, winning the best artistic contribution award at the just-concluded 41st Montreal International Film Festival, becoming the only film in China to win an award in the main competition unit of this year’s Montreal International Film Festival.
On September 15th, 18th and 19th, local time, the director’s review unit of this year’s Barcelona Litchi Film Festival showed three films directed by Xu Haofeng: Master, and The Trail of the Enemy. These three works, as well as the documentary "Hiding on the Back of a Knife", present the audience with multi-level martial arts concepts and multi-dimensional author expressions, show overseas filmmakers and audiences China’s new martial arts films, meet the curiosity and appreciation needs of western audiences for China Kung Fu, and promote China’s traditional martial arts culture.
Hiding on the Back of a Knife was starred by Summer Xu, Chun Xia, Zhang Aoyue, Huang Jue, Geng Le, Chen Guantai, Li Guangjie, Li Bo and Xiong Xinxin, and was adapted from the novel of the same name by director Xu Haofeng.