Shanghai, the film city that carries glory and dreams, welcomes its annual grand festival. On June 14, with the first screening, the 26th Shanghai International Film Festival opened, and the exciting festival activities will continue until June 23.
As the birthplace of Chinese film, Shanghai founded China's first competitive non-specialized international film festival in 1993. After more than 30 years of inheritance, innovation and development, the Shanghai International Film Festival uses film as a medium to once again show and spread the charm and vitality of Shanghai to the world.
's premiere debut hit a new high
's open and diverse Shanghai Film Festival Golden Goblet Award selection and international film screenings have always attracted much attention. At this film festival, 50 entries from 29 countries and regions entered the selection of the five major categories of the Golden Goblet Award. Including competition films, 461 films from 64 countries and regions will be screened, with world premieres and international premieres increasing by 25.5% compared to last year. During the
Film Festival, more than 5,000 guests at home and abroad from more than 60 countries and regions will gather in Shanghai. The judges for the five categories of Golden Goblet Award Main Competition, Asian Newcomer, Documentary, Cartoon, and Short Film are respectively composed of French director Chen Yingxiong, Chinese director Cao Baoping, American scholar Bill Nichols, and French animation director Benjamin René , New Zealand director Mark Albiston serves as chairman. The 22 jury members come from 13 countries and regions.
Among the 14 shortlisted films in the main competition section of the Golden Goblet Award, 12 have world premieres and 2 have international premieres. Four Chinese-language works, Guan Hu's " A Man and a Woman ", Wei Shujun's "Sunshine Club", Gu Changwei's " Hedgehog " and Zhang Dalei's "The Stars Are Waiting for Us" will compete with 10 works from 11 countries. The films compete together. On the evening of June 22, the winners of the main competition unit of the Golden Goblet Award will be announced.
French director Chen Yingxiong, who serves as the chairman of the jury for the main competition unit of this Golden Goblet Award, said: "It is a pleasure to watch and discuss movies with other judges. The film festival is always a place to discover new talents and appreciate famous directors. I look forward to discussing the development of the art form of film with the judges and fans.”
At the main competition unit judges’ meeting held on June 14, the judges Tony Leung and Zhou Xun included Chen Yingxiong. International filmmakers, including those from around the world, recommend themselves and invite them to create their next film in China. They hope to use this opportunity of serving as judges and discussing film art together to promote cross-cultural cooperation between Chinese and foreign filmmakers.
In the Asian newcomer section that has also attracted much attention, Wang Xinrui's "My Mother's Pain and Me", Zhang Xuyu's "Fishbone", Zeng Zhi's "This Friday's Playground", Zhang Luoping's "Shelter Tower", Lu Dan Six Chinese-language works were shortlisted, including "Winter Traveler" by Zang Lianrong and "Safe Years Away" by Zang Lianrong and Xu Ruogu. This year also marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Asian Newcomer Unit. When
2004 was founded, less than 100 works were registered for the Asian Newcomer category. In this year's film festival, 314 works were registered for the awards, coming from 25 countries and regions. Over the past two decades, the Asian Newcomer Unit has discovered and launched a large number of film creators who are now active in the world. Cao Baoping, who won the Special Jury Award and the Most Favorite Award among College Students in the 3rd Asian Newcomer Section in 2006, returned to serve as the chairman of the jury of the Asian Newcomer Section at this film festival. He said: "Creativity, uniqueness, and strangeness. ——These precious qualities are what we hope to see in newcomers.”
It is worth mentioning that there will be a special session at the Asian Newcomer Unit Awards Ceremony on June 20 to pay tribute to the deceased David. Directors such as Bordwell, Wanma Tseden and He Ping expressed their tribute and remembrance. The inheritance of the film spirit is also the mission of the film festival.
A diverse collection of screening films
During the film festival, 47 screening theaters in 16 districts across the city jointly welcomed movie fans. According to data from the official ticket purchasing platform Taopiaopiao as of the evening of June 12, the 461 films of this year's film festival will be screened for a total of 1,624 times. The current number of tickets issued is 450,000, which has exceeded the total number of moviegoers last year. Among the movie fans who purchased this film festival, about 70% were local movie fans in Shanghai, and another 29% were movie fans from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Beijing, Guangdong and other places.The film screenings of this year's "Belt and Road" Film Week will not only be held in theaters in Shanghai, but also in theaters in Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo, and Hefei.
The premiere of new films and the reappearance of classics have always been the main features of the Shanghai International Film Festival. The opening film of this year's film festival is the dance drama film "The Eternal Wave " directed by Zheng Dasheng and Cui Yi. This red classic has been adapted into works of art many times. The 1958 film of the same name starring Sun Daolin has become a masterpiece in Chinese film history. In 2018, the Shanghai Song and Dance Troupe created and staged a dance drama of the same name that has been performed frequently. From the screen to the stage to the screen, it has drawn a An artistic spiral.
html After its world premiere on June 15, "The Eternal Wave" will also appear in the "City Light and Shadow: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of New China and the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Shanghai" screening section to meet the general audience. This screening unit selects new domestic films and Shanghai-themed works from different periods, including the new Shanghai-language version of "The Crow and the Sparrow", "The Wanderings of San Mao" released in 1949, and records of workers in the early days of Shanghai's reform and opening up. The ingenious work of life "The Village in the City", Jia Zhangke's documentary "Legend of the Sea" created for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, etc.This year's film festival specially planned "Orchid Elegance: New Collections of Opera Films" and the Yangtze River Delta Theater Film Exhibition, which selected outstanding representative opera films produced by Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui for concentrated screening, including the Peking Opera film "Lock" directed by Teng Junjie. Lin Nang", the 2023 Shanghai Opera movie "Daughters of Dunhuang", "The Peony Pavilion " which gives Kun Opera a new charm on the big screen, the Yue Opera movie "Two Flying Wings" which reproduces the charm of the Xu Wang genre in 4k, and the Huangmei Opera film masterpiece "Six Feet Alley" "wait. Among them, "Suolin Bag" was sold out on the day it was released.
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France and the China-France Cultural Tourism Year. 38 latest French films and more than 30 French classic films or films co-produced by France will be met with Chinese movie fans in various screening units to showcase contemporary French films. Diverse perspectives and social aspects. The "Cannes Zero Day" section, which has been deeply loved by movie fans in recent years, returns this year, bringing fans 15 freshly released films from the Cannes Film Festival.
Cultural and tourism integration market frontier
The theme of this year's Shanghai International Film Festival is "City of Movies". In addition to the 47 screening theaters, Shanghai's main business districts, key areas, and streets are filled with the strong atmosphere of the film festival as a people's festival. On the evening of June 15, a group of Chinese and foreign filmmakers who shine on the screen and all members of the Golden Goblet Award jury will walk on the red carpet for the opening of the Shanghai International Film Festival.
The Golden Goblet Film Forum held during the movie often focuses on foreseeing important transformations in the development of the film industry, providing inspiration and thinking to filmmakers. This year’s Golden Goblet Film Forum has a total of 9 sessions. It continues to use hot topics to gather development synergies, look at the new pattern of industrial development, and pay attention to the cutting-edge technology, such as focusing on differentiated distribution mechanisms, Chinese films “going global”, artificial intelligence + films, Hong Kong films The new generation of the film industry, the global diversified development of IP, etc., focus on new productive forces to promote the high-quality development of Chinese films. The film school, known as the "Master Class" by movie fans, will welcome Chen Yingxiong, Zhao Deyin, Bill Nichols, and Iwai Shunji to share their insights on film creation.
In the name of "Science Fiction + Movie", during the film festival, science fiction filmmakers, science fiction writers, and scientists will gather in Songjiang again to discuss the two-way empowerment of artificial intelligence and science fiction movies. This year's Science Fiction Film Week includes science fiction film themed screenings, science fiction film themed forums, science fiction literature IP/film and television project promotions, "Future Engine·Movie Heroes" night, Shanghai Science and Technology Film City press conference and other activities.
The “Belt and Road” Film Festival Alliance, launched by the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2018, has invited representatives from the alliance from more than 20 countries and regions to come to Shanghai to gather at the “Belt and Road” Film Week. This year’s “One Belt, One Road” Film Week screening unit has the theme of “The Road to Courage” and will screen 18 films from “Belt and Road” countries.Dapeng, who won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Actor at the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival last year, and Yao Chen, who won the Best Actress Award at the Asian Content Awards at the 24th Busan International Film Festival, were invited to star in this year's "Belt and Road" film Zhou Promotion Ambassador. The "Belt and Road" Film Week "Latin American Style Carnival" showcases Latin American culture through the "Latin American Express" tour bus, and promotes the urban culture of Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Chile and other Latin American countries through the "Latin American Style Street" market . In addition, the Film Market's "Film and Television Policies and Location Promotion Conference", the Jinjue Forum's "Integration and Symbiosis: Film and City Forum", and future cultural and tourism integration related content negotiations for the cinema unit will also focus on the topic of cultural and tourism integration. Discuss and negotiate.
The film market held at the Shanghai Exhibition Center from June 16th to 18th will bring together new technologies and trends in the development of the film industry. 137 film and television institutions from home and abroad will appear at the market exhibition, including many "new friends" such as Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, and Georgia in recent years. During the same period, the film market will carry out 14 series of activities and 9 industrial screenings, including the "Film Distribution Market", "IP Film and Television Development Conference" and "Film and Television + Cultural Tourism".
(This article comes from China Business News)
