On November 4, audiences browsed Chinese movie posters at the Odeon Cinema in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Tiancong The 2024 Brazil-China Film Festival opened at the Audion Cinema in Rio de Janeiro on the 4th. The event aims to enhance mutual

On November 4, in the Audion Cinema in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the audience browsed Chinese movie posters. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Tiancong

The 2024 Brazil-China Film Festival opened at the Odeon Cinema in Rio de Janeiro on the 4th. The event aims to enhance mutual understanding between the people of China and Brazil through movies and promote mutual learning between the two civilizations.

Chinese guests said in their opening speech that the Chinese film market is open and inclusive and hopes to have close exchanges and in-depth cooperation with global filmmakers. China looks forward to further promoting cooperation with its Brazilian counterparts in many aspects of the film art and industry, such as establishing a mechanism for long-term screening of films from the two countries in each other's countries, forming cooperation projects in line with market rules as soon as possible, and strengthening business exchanges between the film archives of the two countries, etc. .

In April this year, Brazil served as the guest country of at the 14th Beijing International Film Festival. Joelma Gonzaga, audio-visual secretary of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, who was in China for an event at the time, saw broader prospects for Brazil-China film and television cooperation at the Beijing International Film Festival. She said: "Over the past 50 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, Brazil and China have continued to advance cooperation in all aspects, and there is huge potential for cooperation at the cultural level. Today's hosting of the Brazil-China Film Festival at the Odeon Cinema, which has a history of more than 100 years, is of great significance and is a new step in further cooperation between the film and television industries of the two countries. Start. ”

José Daniele da Silva, who works at the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, loves Chinese culture very much and goes straight to the theater to watch movies after get off work. He believes that Brazil and China can inspire each other and cooperate in film creation. The Brazilian people love movies, and there will be a corresponding audience regardless of the subject matter. “For example, people in the northeastern region like literary and artistic films, people in the northern Amazon region like films related to nature and the environment, and people in the southern region prefer life-oriented themes, so a diverse audience can accept more excellent Chinese films. .”

This event is hosted by the National Film Administration of China, the Chinese Embassy in Brazil, the Chinese Consulate General in Rio, and hosted by the China Film Archive, and lasts for 5 days. During this period, 9 films including " Catch the Baby ", " Hot and Spicy ", " China Ping Pong: Jedi Counterattack " were released locally.

　(According to Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhao Yan and Chen Weihua)