Wu Yufang
Award-Winning Filmmaker
Best Supporting Actress
As Liang Meizhi, Send Me to the Clouds
Jury Citation
The jury found that in Send Me to the Clouds, actress Wu Yufang broke away from her established screen image and the limits of character type. Her performance is natural, truthful and vivid, and her grasp of the finer points of the character is steady and precise, adding a touch of warmth to the film.
Send Me to the Clouds: Synopsis
Sheng Nan (Yao Chen) is an independent, driven woman who longs for true love but is still single. She learns by chance that she has ovarian cancer and needs surgery, but her father is having an affair and her mother is childish, so her family cannot give her the support she needs. She has to take a job she dislikes to raise money for the operation. Proud by nature, Sheng Nan discovers at the edge of life and death that keeping one's dignity as an adult is harder than she imagined. Through repeated cycles of hope and despair, she finally makes peace with the world in her own way.