interface news reporter | Huang Jingyuan
interface news editor | Peng Peng
"Shanghai will be the focus of everyone's attention in the next ten days." On June 14, German director and judge of the main competition unit of the 26th Shanghai International Film Festival Golden Goblet Award says matthias glasner. That morning, with the first screening, the Shanghai International Film Festival (hereinafter referred to as the Shanghai Film Festival) officially kicked off.
As the birthplace of Chinese film, Shanghai founded China's first competitive non-specialized international film festival in 1993. The following year, the Shanghai International Film Festival was recognized by fiapf (International Association of Film Producers) as meeting the standards of an international Class A film festival, thus becoming China's first and so far only international Class A film festival.
According to actor Tony Leung Ka Fai , "it is a very honorable thing" to get to know many overseas producers and actors through the Shanghai Film Festival and learn about the development trends of movies.
This is due to the international vision that the Shanghai Film Festival has adhered to since its inception.
The first day of the film festival. Reporter's photo
This year's film festival has collected more than 3,700 entries and exhibitions from 105 countries and regions covering five continents. After selection, 50 works from 29 countries and regions entered the five categories of the Golden Goblet Awards, including 38 world premieres, 6 international premieres, and 6 Asian premieres. The premiere rate reached a new high. The 11 works in the Asian Newcomer Section are all world premieres.
Among the 14 shortlisted films in the main competition unit, 12 have world premieres and 2 have international premieres. Guan Hu's " A Man and a Woman ", Wei Shujun's "Sunshine Club", Gu Changwei's " The Hedgehog " and Zhang Dalei's "The Stars Are Waiting for Us" will join 10 films from 11 countries. Start the competition.
In the eyes of industry insiders, the premiere rate has increased year after year, which is a manifestation of the golden signature of the Golden Goblet Award and the surge of the "first" effect in Shanghai.
html Indonesian filmmaker ajish dibyo, who arrived in Shanghai on the morning of June 14, went directly to the screening site before he could check into the hotel. He chose the Spanish film "Close Your Eyes". Screening 461 films is "too unimaginable", and ajish dibyo looks forward to learning as much as possible about the market and film creation during the festival. The diversity and professionalism of the films screened atall demonstrate the influence of this largest film festival in Asia. Including competition films, this year's film festival will screen 461 films from 64 countries and regions, including 70 world premieres, 48 international premieres, 81 Asian premieres, and 73 Chinese premieres.
"The Shanghai Film Festival's curatorial level is still the best in China. Audiences have high demands on the Shanghai Film Festival, and they are especially looking forward to seeing new works from Cannes." Shen Hancheng, a film practitioner, said on the podcast.
In 2018, "Shoplifters", which won the Palme d'Or for Best Film at the 71st Cannes International Film Festival in France, appeared in the screening section of the 21st Shanghai International Film Festival. The Palme d'Or and director Hirokazu Kore-eda's aura made it hard to get a ticket for this film, with ticket prices selling for thousands of yuan. Some netizens even said, "One ticket can be exchanged for a second-hand house in the inner ring of Shanghai." The following year, the Shanghai International Film Festival officially added the "Cannes Zero Day" unit.
This year, "Cannes Zero Time" returns again, with the largest number of films screened in history, including the live-action rotoscope animation "The Cat Demon" jointly produced by Japan and France, and the Indian film "The Light of Imagination" which won the Cannes Jury Prize. .
Every June, classic themed films such as "Salute to the Master", "4K Restoration" and "Special Planning" are screened, attracting movie fans to grab tickets endlessly and immerse themselves in the dream of light and shadow one after another. This year, films such as "Red Hot Chili Peppers", "The Hedgehog", "Pulp Fiction", "Seven Deadly Sins" and " 2001: A Space Odyssey" are the most popular this year. In the "Homage to the Masters" section, the curatorial team selected works by Margaret Dallas, Yasuzo Masumura, Yang Svanmayer and other film masters, which are both professional and artistic.
Shanghai Cinema, movie fans browse the film schedule. Reporters photographing
international guests is another feature of the Shanghai Film Festival. At this film festival, more than 5,000 guests from home and abroad from more than 60 countries and regions gathered in Shanghai.
The juries for this year’s Golden Goblet Award main competition, Asian newcomers, documentaries, cartoons, and short films are composed of French director Chen Yingxiong, Chinese director Cao Baoping, American scholar Bill Nichols, and French animation director Benjamin Rene and New Zealand director Mark Albiston served as chairmen, and the 22 jury members came from 13 countries and regions.
goes back 30 years. In 1993, the seven international judges invited to serve as the first film festival were all well-known film artists or producers in the international film industry, including Xie Jin, Oliver Stone, Oshima Nagisa, etc.
In 2006, for the first time, French director Luc Besson, a foreign film master, served as the chairman of the jury for the ninth Shanghai Film Festival, which greatly improved the internationalization of the Shanghai Film Festival.
Since then, Hugh Grant, Isabelle Huppert, Sophie Marceau, Natalie Portman, Meryl Streep and many other international movie stars have attended the Shanghai International Film Festival. Tonight, the opening red carpet of the Shanghai International Film Festival, known as "Asia's No. 1 Red Carpet," will once again be star-studded.
On June 25, 2006, at the closing ceremony of the 9th Shanghai International Film Festival, Luc Besson appeared on the red carpet. Image source: Shanghai International Film Festival
Every year, the Shanghai International Film Festival invites well-known domestic and foreign film masters to the film school to share their personal film concepts and creative experiences in the form of dialogues. Since 2017, Christian Mongiu, Brillante Mendoza, Nuri Big Ceylan, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Denis Villeneuve, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and many more Several film masters attended film school one after another.
In 2020, Denis Villeneuve, the director of " Dune " and "Blade Runner 2049", said when talking about "what constitutes a good movie" that the reason why audiences go to the movies is to see the images in the movie. Find emotion in the poetry.
At the same time, in recent years, the Shanghai International Film Festival has continued to build platforms to promote the international dissemination and exchange of excellent films.
The "Belt and Road" Film Festival Alliance, initiated by the Shanghai Film Festival, now has 55 institutional members from 48 countries. In 2023, it was included in the list of multilateral cooperation results documents of the third "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum and List of practical cooperation projects.
"Let the world understand China and let China go global" is the original intention of the "Belt and Road" Film Week. This year, the "Belt and Road" Film Week screening section of the Shanghai International Film Festival, with the theme of "The Road to Courage", will screen 18 films from the "Belt and Road" countries.
The Mexican documentary "Born on the Shore" is one of the films screened. Director Bruno Bancalari believes that he is "both proud and lucky" to bring the work to Shanghai for its international premiere. He revealed that after coming to Shanghai, he met some people from Latin America. Filmmakers from American countries look forward to further communication with Asian filmmakers here.
Films, filmmakers, and fans have jointly created this event every June. For more than 30 years, Chinese films have been on a two-way journey with world films.
