Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 15 (Zhang Manzi, Fu Zhen) reporters learned from the Organizing Committee of the 11th Beijing International Film Festival on the 15th that the 11th Beijing International Film Festival will be held in Beijing from August 14th to 21st. The festival will organize 11 activities including the "Tiantan Award" awards, opening and red carpet ceremonies, Beijing screenings, Beijing market, film carnivals, closing ceremonies and awards ceremonies, to shape an extraordinary international film festival image and promote Chinese stories and The global expression, regional expression, and decentralized expression of Chinese voice have made the Beijing International Film Festival a window for the world to understand and understand Beijing, cooperation between Chinese and foreign films, and exchanges between Chinese and foreign filmmakers.
At the press conference of the 11th Beijing International Film Festival held on the 15th, Yu Junsheng, Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Beijing International Film Festival Organizing Committee, introduced that the 11th Beijing International Film Festival will Take the form of a combination of online and offline to enhance the international influence of the Beijing Film Festival and promote the high-quality development of the Chinese film industry and even the world film industry.
Wang Jiequn, Director of the Beijing Film Bureau and Vice Chairman of the Organizing Committee, introduced that the "Beijing Screening" unit most anticipated by fans will continue the classic unit and celebrate the 100-year glorious history of the Communist Party of China and the upcoming 2022 in Beijing. Special exhibition units were set up at important time nodes such as the Winter Olympics, and more than 250 excellent Chinese and foreign film works were screened in 32 cooperative theaters.
This screening event will go out of Beijing for the first time and set up screening theaters in Tianjin and Zhangjiakou to show Chinese and foreign classic films for Tianjin and Hebei audiences.
It is worth mentioning that, in order to meet the diversified viewing needs of domestic and foreign audiences, the screening session of this year's Beijing Film Festival will focus on the world's outstanding film works.
For example, the "Tribute to the Filmmaker" unit will screen well-known works of film history superstars such as Yves Montan's "The Price of Fear" and Simon Signelle's "Demon"; the "Master Review" unit will provide fans with a systematic review of Charlie. Opportunities for international film masters such as Chaplin and Krzysztof Kieslowski.
Wang Lu, Deputy Secretary-General of the Organizing Committee of the 11th Beijing International Film Festival, introduced that in order to strengthen the mutual learning and exchanges between Chinese and international films, the Beijing International Film Festival Organizing Committee collected outstanding film works from around the world and finally produced the "Tiantan Award" There are 15 shortlisted films, including 12 foreign films and 3 domestic films.
In addition, the "Focus on the Future" unit will explore potential newcomers and new works, and invite heavyweight filmmakers at home and abroad to form an international jury to launch more film masterpieces with an international perspective.