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At the 16th Beijing International Film Festival – where a record-breaking 1,826 films from 139 countries and regions competed for the prestigious Tiantan Award – CGTN reporter Liu Mohan spoke with two directors. Oscar-winning Dutch director Mike van Diem, whose film "The Girls" earned him award nominations, and Malaysian director Woo Ming Jin, whose coming-of-age drama "The Fox King" follows two brothers growing up in a small coastal town, spoke to CGTN at the festival. Both reflected on how their stories transcend borders – van Diem noted how his film makes audiences "think about what moral borders they would cross," while Woo emphasized that despite being in the Malay language, his film's themes of growing up resonate deeply with Asian audiences. With 16 films selected for the Tiantan Award competition, these conversations remind us that great cinema, as jury president Juliette Binoche put it, builds bridges of "friendship, and the kind of legend that only cinema can create."

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