Balloon

Film poster

Chinese name

氣球

气球

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Qìqiú

Directed by

Pema Tseden

Written by

Pema Tseden

Based on

Balloon by Pema Tseden

Starring

Tso Yangshik

Cinematography

Lǚ Songye

Edited by

Liao Qingsong
Jin Di

Music by

Peyman Yazdanian

Production
companies

Beijing Shengtang Times Culture Communication Co., Ltd.
Factory Gate (Tianjin) Film Co., Ltd.
Qinghai Manishi Film Co., Ltd.
China Film Stellar Theater Chain
iQiyi

Release date

30 August 2019 (2019-08-30) (Venice)

Running time

102 minutes

Country

China

Languages

Chinese
Tibetan

Balloon (Chinese: 气球) is a 2019 Chinese drama film directed by Pema Tseden. It was screened in the Horizons section at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.^[1]^[2]

Synopsis

The film evokes a Tibetan family's struggle between religious conservatism and sexual emancipation. Drolkar and her husband have three sons and are sheep farmers. In order to comply with the one-child policy implemented by the Chinese authorities, Drolkar uses condoms as a means of contraception, a practice that is not very widespread in this traditional society.^[3]

Cast

Tso Yangshik
Wangmo Sonam
Jinpa

Accolades

Date	Award	Category	Recipient(s) and nominee(s)	Result	Notes
2019	5th Chicago International Film Festival	Best Screenplay	Pema Tseden	Won
	76th Venice International Film Festival		Balloon	Nominated
	2019 Toronto International Film Festival	Contemporary World Cinema		Nominated
	24th Busan International Film Festival	A Window on Asian Cinema		Nominated
	20th Tokyo Filmex			Won
	Asia-Pacific Film Festival	Best Film		Nominated
	2nd Hainan Island International Film Festival	Best Film		Won	^[4]

References

External links

IFFI Silver Peacock - Special Jury Award and Special Mention

IFFI Silver Peacock - Special Jury Award and Special Mention
1969-Present (Special Jury Award)	Lester James Peries (Golu Hadawatha) (4th) Mrinal Sen (Bhuvan Shome) (4th) Sobhan Babu (Bangaru Panjaram) (4th) Santwana Bardoloi (Adajya) (29th) Huo Jianqi (Postmen in the Mountains) (31st) Revathi (Mitr, My Friend) (33rd) Magdy Ahmed Aly (Asrar EL-Banat) (33rd) Subhadro Chowdhury (Prohor) (34th) Gennady Sidorov (Old Women) (35th) Tom Hooper (Red Dust) (36th) Abu Sayeed (Nirontor) (37th) Golam Rabanny Biplab (On The Wings of Dreams) (38th) Julia Urbini (More Than Anything in the World) (38th) Malini Fonseka (Akasa Kusum) (39th) Giorgi Ovashvili (The Other Bank) (40th) Kaushik Ganguly (Arekti Premer Golpo) (41st) Taika Waititi (Boy) (41st) Salim Ahamed (Adaminte Makan Abu) (42nd) Lucy Mulloy (Una noche) (43rd) Onur Ünlü (Thou Gild'st the Even) (44th) Julia Vargas-Weise (Sealed Cargo) (46th) Lee Joon-ik (The Throne) (47th) Mahesh Narayanan (Take Off) (48th) Milko Lazarov (Ága) (49th) Pema Tseden (Balloon) (50th) Kamen Kalev (February) (51st) Renata Carvalho (The First Fallen) (52nd) Nikhil Mahajan (Godavari) (52nd) Lav Diaz (When The Waves Are Gone) (53rd) Rishab Shetty (Kantara) (54th)
2015-Present (Special Mention)	Goran Radovaovic (Enclave) (46th) Tiffany Hsiung (The Apology) (47th) Chezhiyan (To Let) (49th) Abhishek Shah (Hellaro) (50th) Kripal Kalita (Bridge) (51st) Simon Farriol (The Wealth of the World) (52nd) Roman Vasyanov (The Dorm) (52nd) Praveen Kandregula (Cinema Bandi) (53rd)
2012-2014 (Centenary Award)	Mira Nair (The Reluctant Fundamentalist) (43rd) Kamaleshwar Mukherjee (Meghe Dhaka Tara) (44th) Shrihari Sathe (Ek Hazarachi Note) (45th)