Release Year: 2017 

Story:
Centered around fishermen in my hometown, “Awaken” is an experimental film exploring the subtle relationship between human beings and nature. It shows the struggles of fishermen by depicting a fishing boat waiting sea ice to melt. The absence of dialogue in the film leads to a distancing effect. The entanglement of subjective and objective perspectives as well as the ethereal location sound stimulate the viewers’ sensory and visual perception.  

Casts & Crews:

Runtime: 63 minutes

Language:

iMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7166500

Douban: https://movie.douban.com/subject/27663856/

Reference:
The 30th IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam — Main Competition Section of Mid-Length Documentary ( Netherland, 2017).
The 20th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival International — Main Competition Section (Thessaloniki, Greece 2018).
The 14th BIFF Beijing Independent Film Festival — the Best Documentary Award (Beijing 2017).
The 1st Central Academy of Fine Arts “Win in the Future” — the Future Award of “Junan Experimental Art Education Award”(Beijing 2017).
The 2nd “Ethnology and Sociology, China Graduate Film and Television Anthropology Exhibition” — the Second Prize. (Beijing 2017).
The 6th China Academy Awards of Documentary Film (Beijing 2017).

Tags: Fishermen's, experimental, survival, nature