8 /10 1 Votes8
95% Rotten Tomatoes Starring Chen Gang Edited by Michael Long Screenplay Johnny Ma | 7/10 IMDb 3/4 Roger Ebert Written by Johnny Ma Cinematography Ming Kai Leung Initial release 30 November 2016 (USA) Music director Lee Sanders | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards Canadian Screen Awards - Claude Jutra Award Similar Hello Destroyer, Window Horses, Tales Of Two Who Dreamt, Kati Kati, The Donor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Old stone trailer festival 2016
Old Stone (Chinese: 老石; pinyin: Lǎo Shí) is a 2016 Chinese-Canadian drama film directed by Johnny Ma. It was selected to be screened in the Discovery section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
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The film centres on Lao Shi (Chen Gang), a cab driver in China whose life spirals out of control after he hits a motorcyclist, leaving him trapped in a bureaucratic nightmare because Chinese laws effectively criminalize such an accident far more harshly if the driver stops to help the victim than they do if he simply leaves the victim to die.
Old stone trailer
Awards
The film was named the winner of TIFF's award for Best Canadian First Feature Film. On 7 December 2016, it was named to TIFF's annual Canada's Top 10 list.
The film garnered five Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, for Best Picture, Best Actor (Chen), Best Original Screenplay (Ma), Best Cinematography (Ming Kai Leung) and Best Editing (Michael Long). It won the Canadian Screen Award for Best First Feature.