''The Crossing'' ( zh, 过春天, ''Guo chun tian''; lit. "Passing the Spring") is a Chinese drama film, written and directed by Bai Xue and released in 2018.Cath Clarke
"The Crossing review – Bai Xue's slowburn gem delivers the goods"
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'', March 21, 2019. The film stars Yao Huang as Peipei, a shy teenager in

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attending school in

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, who gets drawn into smuggling black market

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s in the hopes of saving money to fund her dream of travelling to

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.Christos Tsirbas
"Emotion Transcends Borders in Bai Xue’s ‘The Crossing’"
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'', September 20, 2018. The film premiered in September 2018 at the

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, and had its Chinese premiere in October at the Pingyao International Film Festival.Clarence Tsui
"‘The Crossing’ (‘Guo Chun Tian’): Film Review"
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'', October 22, 2018. It was released mainstream in 2019.

Awards

At TIFF, the film received an honorable mention for the NETPAC Prize. At Pingyao, it won the award for Best Film, and the protagonist, Yao Huang won the award for Best Actress. At the 13th Asian Film Awards in 2019, Bai Xue was nominated for Best New Director and Yao Huang for Best Newcomer actor.Jake Newby
"Asian Film Awards 2019: Tibetan Thriller and “Dying to Survive” Make Shortlist"
''Radii'', January 11, 2019.

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External links

* 2018 films 2018 drama films Chinese drama films 2010s Cantonese-language films {{2010s-China-film-stub