Balloon is set in Tibetan areas in the 1990s, and tells the relationship between belief and reality.

Before the film was released, it was nominated for Best Film in the Horizon Unit Award of the 76th Venice Film Festival, Film Channel Media Award of the 23rd Shanghai International Film Festival, Most Popular Film of the 3rd Pingyao International Film Festival and Golden Coconut Award (Best Film Award) of the 2nd Hainan Island International Film Festival. After the film was released, it got a high score of Douban 7.9, which aroused the audience's thinking and heated discussion.

In recent years, with the release of Tibetan films, the "New Wave of Tibet" has sprung up in the environment of literary films, and Tibetan directors represented by Pema Tseden have begun to be seen by more and more audiences.

Some film critics think Balloon is the best film ever made in Pema Tseden. Compared with the obscurity of a large number of literary and artistic works, the popular and fluent narrative of Balloon is not difficult for non-art cinema lovers to understand the story.

Pema Tseden

As a director with a unique style, Pema Tseden occupies a place in the literary and art circles, and his Tibetan identity adds mystery to his works. He always cares about the contradiction between traditional belief and reality, which is related to the beauty of human nature. Pema Tseden's works are usually simple in story but profound in thought. In his works, people are always put first.

Personal experience

Pema Tseden, 1969 was born in Guide County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province in February. He graduated from Northwest University for Nationalities and Beijing Film Academy. He is a director, screenwriter and producer in China, a member of China Directors Association, a member of China Film Association and a member of China Film Literature Society.

199 1 year, Pema Tseden began to publish literary works. 1997 wrote the novel "Temptation" and won the second prize of the first literary creation award of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

From 65438 to 0999, he wrote the novel "Bang" and won the fifth China Contemporary Minority Literature Creation Rookie Award. In 2002, he wrote and directed his first short film "Quiet Maronite School", and also won the Excellence Award in Drama in the 4th Short Film Competition Unit of the College Student Film Festival.

In 2004, he directed and edited the 35mm color short film "Grassland" and won the China Student Best Short Film Award in the 3rd International Student Film and Television Exhibition of Beijing Film Academy. In 2005, he wrote and directed the drama Static Stone. In 2008, he filmed the documentary Snow in Bayankala.

20 1 1 directed the drama "Old Dog" and won the best film at Brooklyn Film Festival. In 20/0/4, Kloc directed the feature film Colorful Arrow, which was the opening film of the 8th First Youth Film Exhibition. 20 15 was nominated for the Best Director Award in the 52nd Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award for his drama Butter.

20 16 Production of the drama "Knife in Clear Water". 20 18 won the Best Screenplay Award for Horizon Unit in the 75th Venice Film Festival for his drama "Kill a Sheep". In September 2020, the "2020 Southern Literature Festival" was awarded, and Pema Tseden won the "Novelist of the Year".