Zhang Yuan has studied painting since childhood. After graduating from Beijing Film Academy in 1989, he raised his own funding and has directed many significant works, including Mama (1990), which won the Jury Award at the Nantes Three Continents Festival. Beijing Bastards (1992) won the Jury Award at the Singapore International Film Festival; Sons (1995) won the Tiger Award at International Film Festival Rotterdam and Seventeen Years (1999) brought Zhang the Best Director award at the Venice Film Festival. His film Little Red Flowers (2006) won four major best director awards at home and abroad. Zhang has been recognised as one of the most prominent of China’s Sixth Generation Directors. Time Magazine selected him in 1994 as one of the “one hundred young world leaders for the 21st century” and China Youth Magazine chose him as one of the “one hundred young people influencing the next century.” Zhang received the United Nations Cultural and Peace Prize and in 2006, the Robert Bresson Award given by the Vatican.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca
