Nirvana (2017)

Nirvana 2017 / 走出尘埃 2017 /

Fang He Ping was a rock singer when he was young, twenty years ago. He is now working at night as a driver for hire. He is busy in his daily life just like any other middle age man, salt of the earth. In order to open a restaurant, Fang mortgages his house to take out a loan and it seems that everything is going well. He happens to notice a singing competition for which his old band mate Da Yong is a juror. Drinking with him, He Ping feels a twinge of passion for music, but declines Da Yong's offer to be a juror. Later, after a tragedy, He Ping goes on stage again, in despair... *Depicting through music the zeal for youthful dreams, Nirvana won the 2016 Shanghai IFF Best Actor Award. Director Xie Xiaodong said the first half is ‟like a documentary to record the daily life of middle-aged people‟ and the latter half ‟touches on the deep fantasies of many middle-aged people‟.