9月10日凌晨，全世界的影迷都看到了這一幕：中國第六代導演賈樟柯將沉甸甸的金獅獎舉過頭頂，臉上依舊是略顯靦腆的笑容，只是多了幾分自信……一直以來，賈樟柯都把視角投向了中國普通社會階層的生存狀態，從早期的邊緣人物影片《小武》到關注進城打工仔的《世界》，賈導的鏡頭都在傾訴著一種人性關懷。一如既往，記錄片《三峽好人》以平民史詩的姿態講述了在三峽勤勞工作的工人。賈樟柯另一部影片《東》同樣取材三峽背景，入選威尼斯地平線單元。

China's director Jia Zhang-ke poses with the Golden Lion for Best Film. A poetic film about the effects of China's Three Gorges Dam on the lives of ordinary people, "Still Life" by Jia, has won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 63rd Venice Film Festival, the jury announced at a gala finale. [AFP] A poetic film about the construction of China's Three Gorges Dam and its effects on villagers facing state-sanctioned flooding, on the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 63rd Venice Film Festival. "Still Life " (Sanxia Haoren) by Jia Zhang-ke, was a last-minute "surprise film" added to the 11-day festival, and left more fancied high-budget movies in its wake. "We all know that China is undergoing enormous change and daily life is experiencing change as a consequence, and I focused my film on this," Zhang-ke told a news conference. "Still Life" recounts the story of people who return to a rural village during the social upheaval caused by the giant Three Gorges project. . The 36-year-old director said that following his triumph in Venice, he would continue to make films "which express the problems of the weakest strata of society." "The jury was surprised at the quality of the film that we saw," said jury president Catherine Deneuve, whose fellow judges included filmmakers Bigas Luna, Park Chan-wook, and Cameron Crowe. Deneuve in particular cited "the beauty of the scenography, the quality of the story. We were very touched, we were very surprised, we were very moved. I know that everyone hasn't seen the film yet, but it's a very, very special film." A second film by Zhang-ke, "Dong ," a documentary about workers building the dam, featured in the festival's Horizons section. The independent filmmaker's 2000 picture "Platform" and "The World" in 2004 have previously been selected in competition at the Venice festival. (Agencies)

Vocabulary:

Three Gorges Dam: 三峽大壩 Golden Lion: 威尼斯“金獅獎” Still Life: 《三峽好人》的英文譯名 Dong: 《東》 （英語點津陳蓓編輯）