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Pardo alla carriera 2023 to Tsai Ming-liang

The cinema of Tsai Ming-liang entails a passionate convergence of stories and languages. From the outset he has been able to capture the multiple identities of a creative pathway through the complex articulations of both Taiwanese history and his personal story as a Chinese moving between Malaysia and Taiwan. In his films, eroticism and observation join with formal research and narration to form a filmography of striking beauty, awe and wonder, in which the urban melancholy of the post-modern metropolis has been given new and nuanced portrayals. Tsai Ming-liang is a filmmaker who examines the cinema and the world with lucidity and feeling.

Giona A. Nazzaro

Past winners

• 2010 Francesco Rosi
• 2011 Claude Goretta, Bruno Ganz and Claudia Cardinale
• 2012 Johnnie To, Harry Belafonte, and Peter-Christian Fueter
• 2013 Sergio Castellito, Otar Iosseliani
• 2014 Victor Erice
• 2015 Marlen Khutsiev and Bulle Ogier
• 2016 Mario Adorf and Jane Birkin
• 2019 Fredi M. Murer
• 2021 Dante Spinotti
• 2022 Costa-Gavras
• 2023 Tsai Ming-liang