Xi Meijuan
Winner Profile
Best Actress
As Feng Jizhen, Mama!
Jury Citation
In Mama!, Xi Meijuan follows the needs of the role. With consummate skill and nuanced, layered emotional expression, she becomes one with the character and creatively and vividly presents Feng Jizhen's life through three stages of Alzheimer's disease. Her calm performance carries emotional tension, and her mature craft gains new expressive range. Winner of Best Actress.
Mama!: Synopsis
An 85-year-old mother (Wu Yanshu) and her 65-year-old daughter (Xi Meijuan) live together. Weighed down by guilt toward her father, the daughter has lived an austere, puritanical life. Alzheimer's disease turns her into a different person, and the aged mother must summon great strength to care for her. Along the way, the two lives complete and illuminate each other.