【Commentary】On the evening of June 6, the 9th Shanghai International Film Festival kicked off with a red carpet ceremony and Golden Jue ceremony at the Shanghai Grand Theatre. After one postponement due to the epidemic, this year's Shanghai International Film Festival has returned to offline in its entirety. In the next nine days, Chinese films will launch a "two-way rush" with world cinema in Shanghai.

【Commentary】At the red carpet ceremony that night, Chen Kaige, Zhou Yunfa, Wu Jing and other filmmakers all appeared with their works, and British actor Jason Statham even learned the Shanghai dialect on the red carpet.

[Contemporaneous] actor Jason Statham

Come on, Shanghai International Film Festival (Shanghai dialect).

【Commentary】At the Golden Goblet Ceremony that night, Michelle Yeoh, a Chinese actress who won the 95th Academy Awards for Best Actress, appeared as an "old friend of the Shanghai International Film Festival" and invited filmmakers from all over the world in English.

It is reported that this year marks the 30th anniversary of the birth of the Shanghai International Film Festival. As the only international A-class film festival in China, over the past 30 years, the Shanghai International Film Festival has adhered to the positioning of "basing itself in Asia, paying attention to the Chinese language, and supporting newcomers", recording historical glory and witnessing the style of the times.

【Commentary】It is understood that the international film competition unit of this year's Golden Goblet Award includes five categories: main competition, Asian newcomer, documentary, cartoon and short film, and a total of nearly 128,8800 works have been registered and exhibited from more than <> countries and regions in the two cycles, and the proportion of world premieres and international premiere films has further increased. The films will be judged by an international jury lineup, and this year's Polish director Jez Skolimowski "steered" the main competition unit of this year's Golden Goblet Awards.

【Commentary】This year's Shanghai International Film Festival will screen more than 400 films in the international film exhibition section, presenting the rich expression of film art in the context of globalization in different forms, types, styles and themes. For example, the "China Contemporary Art Film Exhibition" selects representative works of Chinese art films in the past 10 years, showing the innovative development of Chinese films in artistic exploration; "Warner Centennial", "Toei Animation", "30th Anniversary of the Jurassic Film Series" and other specially curated themes have aroused the empathy of fans in the subdivision circle; For the first time, the "Global Village" section focuses on Spanish films and will screen new films from Germany, Italy, Japan, India and other countries.

It is worth mentioning that this year, the "Belt and Road" Film Festival Alliance initiated by the Shanghai International Film Festival celebrated its 5th anniversary, connecting 48 countries and 55 member institutions, and entering a new stage of "rooting and development" from "pillars and beams". On the same day, the Alliance released a future-oriented "Light and Shadow Leading the Road" action plan, which will use the resources of the Alliance to hold a variety of offline exchange activities and create cooperation opportunities; Hold film festivals themed on the "Belt and Road" at home and abroad to promote cultural exchanges; Through holding film schools, workshops and other activities, we help film talents explore the international market.

Reporting by Zhou Sunyu from Shanghai

Responsible Editor: [Song Fangcan]