Youth Film Handbook

Youth Film Handbook (青年电影手册) is a Chinese magazine established by film critic/screenwriter/director Cheng Qingsong (程青松) in 2007, featuring independent film reviews and interviews. It is best known for handing out its annual "Golden Broom Awards" (金扫帚奖), highlighting the most disappointing films of the year.

Awards for Excellence in Chinese-language films

Top-10 Films

2009

• Cannot Live Without You
• Spring Fever
• 24 City
• The Clear Water
• Yang Yang
• Hear Me
• Vengeance
• Night and Fog
• Cow
• Crazy Racer

2010

• Let the Bullets Fly
• Buddha Mountain
• Monga
• Echoes of the Rainbow
• Chongqing Blues
• When Love Comes
• The Fourth Portrait
• Taipei Exchanges
• Love in a Puff
• Lost on Journey

2011

• A Simple Life
• Seediq Bale
• The Piano in a Factory
• Love for Life
• Folk Song Singing
• Mr. Tree
• Life Without Principle
• You Are the Apple of My Eye
• Eternal Watch
• Starry Starry Night

2012

• Mystery
• 11 Flowers
• People Mountain People Sea
• Feng Shui
• Lost in Thailand
• The Grandmaster
• Cold War
• Girlfriend, Boyfriend
• Touch of the Light
• Together

2013

• Stray Dogs
• A Touch of Sin
• Ilo Ilo
• China Affair
• All Apologies
• The Love Songs of Tiedan
• Don't Expect Praises
• Fly with the Crane
• Soul
• Rigor Mortis

2014

• Blind Massage
• Ice Poison
• Brotherhood of Blades
• Black Coal, Thin Ice
• Gone with the Bullets
• Paradise in Service
• Forgetting to Know You
• Exit
• Aberdeen
• The Midnight After

2015

• Red Amnesia
• Port of Call
• Mountains May Depart
• Thanatos, Drunk
• A Fool
• The Master
• I Am Somebody
• The Assassin
• River Road
• Zinnia Flower

2016

• Tharlo
• The Road to Mandalay
• Kaili Blues
• Mad World
• Mr. Donkey
• Crosscurrent
• Trivisa
• Godspeed

Individual awards

Golden Broom Awards

Most Disappointing Films

2009

• A Simple Noodle Story
• City of Life and Death
• The Treasure Hunter

2010

• Confucius
• Just Call Me Nobody
• If You Are the One 2

2011

• The Warring States
• Legendary Amazons
• The Lost Bladesman

2012

• The Guillotines
• The Last Supper

2013

• Tiny Times & Tiny Times 2
• Switch
• Personal Tailor

2014

• The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom
• Tiny Times 3
• The Breakup Guru

2015

• Oh My God
• Devil and Angel
• Forever Young

2016

• League of Gods
• From Vegas to Macau III
• See You Tomorrow

2017

• Buddies in India
• Once Upon a Time
• '

2018

• Love Apartment
• The Faces of My Gene
• Hello, Mrs. Money

2019

• Shanghai Fortress
• Jade Dynasty
• Always Miss You

2020

• The Story of Hay Bo (2020)
• Wild Grass
• Oversize Love

Individual awards

References