Xinmin Evening News (Reporter Sun Jiayin) The 26th Shanghai International Film Festival "Belt and Road" Film Week held a closing ceremony at the Pudong Art Museum on the evening of the 18th. The three honors of Film Wednesday - "Filmmaker of Media Attention", "Film of Media Attention" and "Most Favorite Film by Audiences" were announced successively. Film Week has come to an end, but cooperation has not ended. A new round of "One Belt, One Road" film tour has begun.
This year's "Belt and Road" Film Week film screenings, with "The Road to Courage" as the film festival theme, select 18 representative films, and use 65 screenings to lead the audience to follow the footsteps of the protagonists in the film and break through the inner constraints, Entering unknown territory, some of the films were screened in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui; the “Belt and Road” Film Festival Alliance Press Conference and the “Belt and Road” Film Culture Roundtable Forum were held to jointly explore the possibility of all-round cooperation in the film industry; " The "Latin American Style" carnival vividly presents Latin American style throughout Pudong, promoting the integrated development of business, tourism, cultural and sports exhibitions.
Among the masterpieces screened, 8 shortlisted works for this year's "One Belt, One Road" Film Week were selected by professional film selectors, and the winners of the three honors were also announced that night. The announcement of the "Most Favorite Film" voted by the audience pushed the atmosphere of the closing ceremony to a climax. Two promotion ambassadors of the "Belt and Road" Film Week - film director and actor Dapeng , and actor and producer Yao Chen - jointly announced the award. The Chinese film " reverse position ", co-created by China's new generation director Zhang Yudi and a group of young actors, won this honor. Chang Yudi spoke passionately about the fate of "Reversal" and the "One Belt, One Road": "Last year, this film participated in the Far East International Film Festival in Italy. This year, it participated in the Shanghai International Film Festival again. It seems to have come back along the 'Belt and Road' "The two promotion ambassadors also expressed their feelings at the scene. Yao Chen said that films from different countries gathered in the "Belt and Road" Film Week to convey cultural emotions and bring comfort and strength to many people. "I hope that I can work with more creators to take films out and communicate and collide with peers." ".
At the end of the closing ceremony, a new round of "Belt and Road" film tour was launched. In the previous round of tour, 17 outstanding domestic films entered the 22nd Bangladesh Dhaka International Film Festival in January this year, and Chinese and Bangladeshi filmmakers had in-depth exchanges; during the Spring Festival this year, "Snow Cloud" entered Iran with the tour , was screened in Tehran during the 42nd Dawn International Film Festival and was well received by the audience; in April this year, "Mei's Day and Night" directed by Luo Dong was recommended by the touring mechanism and screened at the 46th Moscow International Film Festival debuted and was shortlisted for the film festival’s main competition documentary unit.
Although the screen is small, the movie is huge. In the future, on the "Road of Courage" of the "Belt and Road" Film Week, cooperation among global filmmakers will continue to open, expand, and deepen.