The 25th Shanghai International Film Festival is scheduled to open on June 9.

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The 25th Shanghai International Film Festival will open on June 9, 2023, the Golden Goblet Award ceremony will be held at the Shanghai Grand Theater on the evening of June 17, and the citywide Film Festival will end on June 18.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the birth of the Shanghai International Film Festival. As China's only international category A film festival recognized by the International Film producers Association, the Shanghai International Film Festival has stood on the shoulders of several generations of Chinese filmmakers in the past 30 years. Push Chinese films to the international forefront, integrate China and foreign countries, and learn from each other's culture. After a year's delay due to the epidemic, the whole section of the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2023 returned offline, opening a two-way trip between Chinese films and world films.

This year's International Film Competition includes five categories: main competition, Asian newcomers, documentaries, cartoons and short films. Since the launch of the global film competition at the end of last year to the end of March 31, the Shanghai International Film Festival has received nearly 8800 entries from more than 128 countries and regions, of which about 4500 have been registered during the original registration cycle (that is, between December 2021 and March 2022). Although the Shanghai Film Festival has been delayed for one year, these works still choose to stay in Shanghai to compete for the Golden Horse Award. Or meet with Chinese fans as an exhibition film. Cinemas throughout the city also gave a warm response. After the Shanghai International Film Festival released the recruitment of cinemas for exhibition, 112 cinemas received applications in just one week.

Based on the festival concept of "Asia, Chinese, newcomers", the Shanghai International Film Festival has formed a "61st" step training system of short videos, Jinjue short films, venture training camps, film projects, Jinjue Asian Rookie Unit, Golden Jazz Award and SIFF YOUNG X Shanghai Young Movie support Program after years of accumulation. The short video unit aims to use short video works of no more than 5 minutes as the carrier, through solicitation, promotion, tracking, training and other forms, to encourage young image creative talents to bravely explore and create bravely, compared with the same period in the past, this year's requisition films have been greatly improved in terms of quantity and quality, showing a continuous trend of improvement. Jinjue short film is used as a competition unit to solicit animation and live-action short films from all over the world. at the same time, a specially planned collection of short films will be released in the SIFF short film unit of the international film exhibition this year, featuring excellent works from domestic and foreign film festivals. This year's venture capital training camp has received more than 830 applications, including more than 540 in 2022 and 290 in 2023, of which 9% are production group, 25% screenwriter group and 66% director group. The training camp will continue to follow the model of one year's summer and winter, gradually carry out new talent training and project incubation. Venture Capital, which has successfully held 15 film projects, has also gathered the essence of two years, collecting a total of 682 projects, including 339 screenplay projects in 2022, 265 in 2023, 38 in 2022 and 40 in 2023; the second SIFF YOUNG X Shanghai Young Movie support Program has expanded the scope of recommendation from directors to producers and screenwriters, and the list of selected actors will be announced during the June Film Festival.

The film festival is an open and connected opportunity. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the initiative of jointly building "Belt and Road Initiative", and it is also the Friday anniversary of the founding of the Alliance of "Belt and Road Initiative" Film Festival and the creation of "Belt and Road Initiative" films during the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival. During the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival, the series of activities of "Belt and Road Initiative" Film week will show how to use film as a medium to witness a real blueprint and seek future development under common values through cooperation and blending. Every year, the Jinjue Forum gathers the wisdom and development consensus of the industry, and works together with cultural people and arts. the more than 10 Jinjue forums planned this year will focus on topics such as international cooperation, film education innovation, science and technology and film integration, and science fiction films. to work together for innovation. The film market of the Shanghai International Film Festival, which is committed to creating a diversified whole industry chain and gathering industrial resources for the global film and television creation center, is accepting applications from film and television enterprises and institutions all over the world. this year, a large number of interactive content will be planned for ordinary fans and citizens, and the timely "international film and television cloud market" will also serve as a "cloud" sub-venue to continue to provide regular online services for exhibitors. The Shanghai International Film and Television Festival experience Roadshow Center, the first large-scale independent film and television festival in Asia, is jointly created by the Shanghai Cultural property Exchange, the National Edition chain super node operator, and the Shanghai International Film and Television Festival Center. it will also be launched during the 2023 Shanghai International Film Festival and the Shanghai Television Festival to make people "chain" on film and television with a more innovative interaction and experience.

With a complete presentation of the main plates and new expressions spawned by scientific and technological development and technological innovation, the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival will return in an all-round way. Thirty years of "Light" have passed by. In 2023, the Shanghai International Film Festival, which has been born for 30 years, expects all parties to come to this ideal city of filmmakers to jointly open a warm and joyous event of light and shadow.