Closing and Award Ceremony
On the evening of the 22nd September, local time, the Closing & Awards Ceremony of the 3rd Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival was held in Frankfurt, Germany, Through the four stages of preliminary assessment, initial evaluation, pre-selection, and final evaluation, after 3 months' hard work the selection committee composed of 37 experts of the documentary industry from 21 countries, eventually selected 9 award winners, including 3 films from France, two from italy and one respectively from Canada, China, the United Kingdom and Brazil.
Among them, the French documentary THE SON won the 2018 "Golden Tree* award, and the Chinese documentary A PURPOSE BUILT SCHOOL directed by Jia Ding won the Best Long Documentary award.
Message from Ms. Wang Libin at the Closing Ceremony
Dear guests and friends：
Good evening everybody!
There's an old saying in China that goes "All good things come to an end." Me standing here tonight means that the third Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival is coming to an end too.
These days I have been thinking. The Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival has turned 3 years old. From 387 films from 37 countries with 6 awards, 7 forums, 13 judges, 27 experts in the first session, over 1017 films from 92 countries, 6 award-winning films, six forums, 14 judges and 26 experts in the second session, to now with a total of 4034 fims from 125 countries including 9 award-winning films. six forums and 45 judges, 37 experts and planning to invest in 9 films.
Does it violate the original intention of the Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival?
What is a good documentary?
Can the Golien Tree Festival carry and solve the pain of documentary producers?
Where is the future of documentary films?
In the last days I felt the infinite charm of documentaries. Although I don't understand the language, when I saw the trailer from an Indian lady, I burst into tears. I understood it and was moved. When I saw that Mr. Skatchkov, Ms.Stephenson, Ms.Bree, Ms.Eva, Ms.Shawn Simon gave up their rest and discussed all the films over and over again, how grateful l we inside; When I participated the forum and heard the confusion and helplessness of our experts and listeners in the face of the multicutural world, i couldn't help grabbing the microphone and telling them the truth, actually there are endless opportunite in front of them.