In midsummer, everything is on display, and the 26th Shanghai International Film Festival that movie fans have been waiting for has finally kicked off. On the evening of June 15, 2024, the red carpet of the Golden Goblet Ceremony of this Shanghai International Film Festival was held. Many filmmakers from all over the world gathered here, including Guan Hu, Xu Zheng, Huang Xiaoming, Daniel Wu, Peng Yuyan, Dapeng, Deng Chao, Huang Xuan and others appeared on the red carpet to attend this movie event. The crews of "Sunshine Club" and " a man and a woman " will appear one after another during the film festival to compete fiercely for the Golden Goblet Award.
△Red carpet scene
Stars shine
Guan Hu, Xu Zheng, Huang Xiaoming, Deng Chao, Daniel Wu and others appeared on the red carpet at the opening ceremony
On the evening of June 15, a group of Chinese and foreign filmmakers and members of the Golden Goblet Award jury who shone on the screen walked onto the red carpet. Known as "Asia's No. 1 Red Carpet", the opening red carpet of the Shanghai International Film Festival was illuminated by stars.
△red carpet scene
△red carpet scene
Guan Hu, Wu Ershan, Huang Xiaoming, Wu Yanzu, Huang Bo, Deng Chao, Shen Teng, Ma Li, Dapeng, Peng Yuyan, Zu Feng, Liu Haoran, Huang Xuan, Ni Ni, Tong Liya , Wang Junkai, Wang Yuan, Yu Feihong, Du Jiang, Wang Chuanjun, Feng Shaofeng, Nazha, Hu Xianxu, Naran, Huang Minghao, Zhang Junning, Xin Zhilei, Jin Chen, Sun Yang, Peng Yuchang, Zhou Ye, Deng Jiajia and other filmmakers appeared on the red carpet, Members of the international jury of this year’s Golden Goblet Awards also walked side by side from the red carpet to the “Golden Goblet Ceremony”.
△red carpet scene
△red carpet scene
The crews of the movies "Sunshine Club" and "A Man and a Woman" will also meet with you at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
Competition is fierce
14 films compete for the Golden Goblet Award, and 4 Chinese films are shortlisted
The open and diverse Shanghai International Film Festival Golden Goblet Award selection and international film screenings have always attracted attention from all parties. 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 entries 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.
△"A Man and a Woman"
Among the 14 shortlisted films in the main competition unit, 12 have world premieres and 2 have international premieres, including 4 Chinese-language films. Guan Hu's "A Man and a Woman", Wei Shujun's "Sunshine Club", Gu Changwei's " " and Zhang Dalei's "The Stars Are Waiting for Us" will compete with 10 films from 11 countries.
"My Mother's Pain and Me" by Wang Xinrui, "Fishbone" by Zhang Xuyu, "This Friday's Playground" by Zeng Zhi, "Shelter Tower" by Zhang Luoping, "Winter Traveler" by Lu Dan, Zang Lianrong and Xu Ruogu A total of 6 Chinese-language works of "Peace and Peace" were shortlisted for the Asian Newcomer Unit. The 11 works in this unit are all world premieres.
Among other Chinese-language works, Cao Liang's "The Royal Cat of Jinling" was shortlisted for the animation unit. "Searching for Another Story" by Liao Yiling and Zhu Boying, and "Aunt Hu's Garden" by Pan Zhiqi were shortlisted for the documentary category. Zhang Dalei's live-action short film "Why We Dream" was shortlisted for the short film unit. He also became the only director to have two works shortlisted for two competition units this time. The Chinese works shortlisted for the short film unit also include Yang Xiaoman's "Embrace", by "A Good Day to Swim" directed by Liu Zhiquan and He Xinyuan, Dong Yang's "Red Car", and Guo Xiaoruo's animated short "Kill This Horse". Yuan Mocong, the director of the British animated short film "Floaters", is also a Chinese girl born after 1995. The judges of 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 Ray New Zealand director Mark Albiston serves as chairman. The 22 jury members come from 13 countries and regions.
Including competition films, this film festival will screen a total of 461 films from 64 countries and regions, including 70 world premieres, 48 international premieres, 81 Asian premieres, and 73 Chinese premieres.
screened
,461 films and 1,624 screenings, and movie fans across the country started a "movie event"
The annual Shanghai International Film Festival is a grand festival for movie fans. "Which show did you grab tickets for?" is one of the most common social topics among movie fans during the Shanghai International Film Festival.
According to data from the official ticket purchasing platform Taopiaopiao as of the evening of June 12, the 461 films of this 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.
△The first hour ticket sales report
Reporters learned that within one hour of the Shanghai International Film Festival’s ticket opening at noon on June 7, many popular films “disappeared within seconds”. The one-hour ticket sales report released by Taopiao Piao showed that the ticket sales started at noon on June 7. Within 10 minutes, 36 videos and 200 shows had been sold out. Among the films on display, a total of 36 were sold out in just 10 minutes. Among them, the ten most popular films that sold out the fastest were " The Sinking of Lisbon Maru " and "Detective Conan: Million Dollar Man". "Five-pointed Star", "A Man and a Woman", " Deep Space " (imax/4k), " Seven Deadly Sins " (imax/4k), " 2001 A Space Odyssey " (imax/4k), " "Kangxi and Louis XIV", "Perfect Days" (4k), "Drifting" (4k), "Queen Live Concert in Montreal" (imax/4k). Among the most popular videos among users, "Red Hot Chili Peppers " (4k), "The Hedgehog", and "Pulp Fiction" (4k) are firmly in the top three.
Among them, about 70% of the movie fans who purchased this film festival are local movie fans in Shanghai, and 29% are from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Beijing, Guangdong and other places. It is worth mentioning that in order to welcome these guests who come to Shanghai with their suitcases to watch movies, 34 screening theaters including Grand Guangming, Majestic, Heping, and Jiading Cinemas have opened luggage storage services.
The Shanghai International Film Festival is a "non-local fan-friendly film festival" while taking into account the movie fans in the Yangtze River Delta to watch movies nearby. 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.
9 Jinjue Film Forum, Shunji Iwai's "Film School" lectures
In addition to good movies, exciting activities are also very attractive.
It is reported that this year’s Jinjue Film Forum will have a total of 9 sessions. It will continue to use hot topics to gather development forces, look at the new pattern of industrial development, and pay attention to the cutting-edge technology, such as focusing on differentiated distribution mechanisms, "going global" and "artificial intelligence +" of Chinese films. Film, the new generation of Hong Kong film industry, IP global diversified development, 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 + Movies", 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.
Modern Express/Modern+ Reporter Zheng Wenjing Li Yiheng/Text Liu Chang/Photo
(Some pictures are official pictures of the Shanghai International Film Festival)
