The China-Greece co-production documentary Splendid Land, directed by Eleni Vlassi & Jin Huaqing,gained the Finest Worldwide Brief Documentary Award and the Viewers Award, within the Worldwide Documentary Competition of Ierapetra & Awards and the Worldwide Film Competition of Crete, which befell in Crete from 7 until 21 August 2021. This movie presents the great land of Xinjiang, China and its historic customs via an musician pursuing the Mukam music and the spectacular panorama.
On September 6, the movie was proven globally on the web platform of the Venice Worldwide Film Competition, attracted numerous audiences, media reporters and movie curators. The enthusiastic and exquisite scene of Xinjiang was unfolding within the properties of all of the on-demand movie viewers from everywhere in the world. Individuals name the movie "an amazing welfare brought by the first online event of the Venice Film Festival."
In the course of the Venice Film Competition, a number of European movie competition curators instantly provided inviatation to Splendid Land after watching it. Within the close to future, the movie will seem in worldwide movie festivals such because the twelfth Amorgos Tourism Film Competition and the tenth Balkan New Film Competition. Online and onsite screenings are touring in lots of international locations, and European audiences can watch the attractive Xinjiang behind the mysterious veil on the massive display screen and even at house.
“A film that brings down the borders of cultures and introduces to western countries the amazing and so wonderful culture, tradition, customs and history of Xinjiang, China.” stated Menos Deliotzakis, President of the Jury of the Worldwide Documentary Competition of Ierapetra & Awards.
Christos Solomos, the Greek actor and well-known host stated:“ People in this film show to us that we can always get the best way of life in different environments, and this is the result of human wisdom and labor. If travel is again allowed, I hope I can visit Xinjiang with my family and friends! Congratulations to this wonderful film!”
Well-known French director Benoit Lelievre stated:“ It's a relaxing and lovely film indeed. Director knows how to capture beautiful images, and the scenery and landscapes of the Xinjiang are breathtaking. I didn't expected Kashgar to be that typical and unique either! It broke my previous cognition. Now, I really want to go there to visit!”
And the co-director of Splendid Land, Eleni Vlassi commented:“This film shows a place that is internationally well-known, but the real Xinjiang, in fact, foreigners don’t know much about it. I believe that after viewing this film, you will have a better understanding of this mysterious and vast land, through the crossroads of history with contemporary life. I have been to China before and I was deeply attracted and so decided to shoot documentaries in China. This film is the achievement of my first cooperation with Chinese director Jin Huaqing but surely not the last with a filmmaker from China. ”
