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On the evening of June 25, in the drizzling Xianghui Hall, Qian Kun, a senior girl from the Department of Mathematics at Fudan University who has studied the French horn for many years, met her idol, Sarah Willis, the French horn player of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. She is the first female brass player in the history of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Sarah Willis came to the Fudan campus with one of the oldest chamber orchestras of the Berlin Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic Brass Chamber Orchestra. From June 24 to July 2, the art map of the special project of the China Shanghai International Art Festival "Berlin Philharmonic in Shanghai" will cover every corner of the city and is expected to reach 30,000 audiences. In addition to the four symphony concerts that sold out in 5 minutes at the Shanghai Grand Theater, there were also 7 indoor concerts held at Fudan University, ShanghaiTech University, YOUNG Theater, Dishui Lake Theater and other places.

"The preliminary work of "Yaoyaodongba" took several months. I thought about the whole outline very clearly, and it took only about three days to actually write. I walked around and "read" the script to my phone, because the script was already very mature in my mind, and I finished it in three days." On June 24, the media conference of "Yaoyaodongba" was held at the Shanghai International Hotel. The screenwriter and director Lai Shengchuan talked about the heroism in the play and said, "For me, the definition of a hero is very simple. A person who does selfless things is a hero." In August, "Yaoyaodongba" appeared in the theater with a new cast, Fan Guangyao returned, and Dou Jin joined. As a poem written by Lai Shengchuan for Shanghai, "Yaoyaodongba" takes place in an old warehouse in Hongkou, Shanghai. The novelist Shu Tong played by Dou Jin is led by the mysterious music "One Day, I Will Find You" and connected to the time and space in 1943.

Many citizens and tourists have discovered that the "sauce garden" in front of the Victory Cinema on Zhapu Road is being demolished. What will happen to this popular check-in spot in the city center in the future? "We plan to build a film and television base in the city center, which will serve as an extension of the Victory Cinema's business format." Shen Bin, the manager of the Victory Cinema, said in an exclusive interview with the Jiefang Daily Shangguan reporter that the demolition of the relevant scenery is the next step in revitalizing this century-old historical block. With the support of the Hongkou District Government and relevant departments, the figure-eight intersection of Wujin Road, Beihaining Road, and Zhapu Road in front of the Victory Cinema will be built into an immersive film and television base with a sense of history, welcoming filmmakers from all over the country to come and shoot Shanghai stories without any threshold or restrictions. At the same time, the block has introduced "niche" stores with traffic, such as wonton shops, teahouses, and cheongsam shops, to meet the needs of film and television shooting.

This year marks the 145th anniversary of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall. On June 25, the orchestra released the lineup for the 2024-25 music season, which includes 83 symphony, opera, chamber music and cross-border performances. Big-name conductors such as Daniel Harding, Jaap van Zweden, Charles Dutoit, Paavo Järvi and others will visit this season, as well as star musicians with unique skills such as Hilary Hahn, Maxim Vengerov, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Augustin Hadelich, András Schiff, Gerhard Opitz, and Wynton Marsalis. In the new season, the semi-staged opera "Porgy and Bess" and Verdi's "Rigoletto" will be staged one after another, and Liang Haoyi's "Chinese Kitchen" and Zhou Long's erhu and orchestra concerto "Nine Songs" will complete the world.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, and between China and Venezuela. Performers from the Shanghai National Orchestra traveled across half the globe to perform on the same stage with local musicians in Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela on June 20 and June 23 local time, respectively, to celebrate the friendship spanning half a century with music. In Trinidad and Tobago: Three orchestras ensemble together, swaying together. The concert to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago was staged at the National Performing Arts Center of Trinidad and Tobago on the evening of June 20 local time, and was co-organized by the Chinese Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago, the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Arts of Trinidad and Tobago, and the Foreign Affairs Office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. The Shanghai National Orchestra, the Trinidad and Tobago National Steel Drum Orchestra, and the Trinidad and Tobago National Symphony Orchestra performed on the same stage, playing "Waltz for Alice" and "Tang Ke's Melody" in pairs.

"Long live the Communist Party of China! Salute to the revolutionary predecessors!" On June 10, Zhang Chenye, a third-grade primary school student, walked into No. 14, Lane 930, Wuding Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai. After the visit, he was so excited that he wrote this sentence in the guestbook. This red brick building is two stories high with a loft on the top. It is a new-style lane residence commonly seen in old Shanghai. It is also a real "red fortress" - from 1927 to 1935, it was the location of the intelligence and security agency established by the Communist Party of China in Shanghai. In April of this year, the newly renovated Central Special Branch Agency Memorial Hall was officially opened, presenting a panoramic interpretation of the thrilling heroic story and recreating the entire process of the Central Special Branch's struggle in Shanghai for the first time. Jing'an was the core area of ​​the early activities of the Communist Party of China. It was the place where Marxism was spread and revolutionary leaders were born.

In response to the call of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television for the "Travel with Micro-Short Dramas" creative plan, Hunan Satellite TV launched a special summer arrangement and joined hands with Mango TV to innovatively create the prime-time 730 micro-short drama theme belt - a slightly sweet journey in summer. The micro-short drama "A Dream of Pillowing on the Starry Sky" is the first episode of this theme belt. Starting from June 24, it will be broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV from Monday to Thursday at 19:30, and will be broadcast simultaneously on Suzhou News Comprehensive Channel. The drama is directed by Pan Yue and Liu Zheng, written by Yin Wenjun, and starred by Xiao Yan, Zhang Jiongmin and others. With the 30-year development and changes of the ancient city of Suzhou and Suzhou Industrial Park as the creative background, focusing on the theme of "Ancient City Protection and Renewal", it tells the story of Zhu Yiran, the inheritor of the Su Fan Intangible Cultural Heritage Project, and Shen Feng, a returned ancient city cell anatomy engineer, working together to contribute their youthful strength to the protection of the ancient city and the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage. The poster of this drama is in "A Dream of Pillowing on the Starry Sky".

On June 24, the theme special exhibition of the dance drama film "The Eternal Wave" with the theme of "Continuing the Red Bloodline and Passing on the 'Radio Wave' Spirit" opened on the 2nd floor of Shengli Cinema in Hongkou District. The exhibition displays nearly 100 precious data pictures, including family letters of martyr Li Bai, life photos, important development stages of the secret front, etc., revealing the true "behind-the-scenes story" of the film and inviting more audiences to embark on this "decoding" journey of love and faith. Feel the power of faith "The Eternal Wave" is a household name classic IP and a city business card incubated by Shanghai's red cultural genes. As the only municipal key film project in the "Literary and Art Film and Television" section of the "Glorious City" 2024 Shanghai Red Culture Season, the dance drama film "The Eternal Wave" was screened worldwide as the opening film at this Shanghai International Film Festival.

It took 6 days and traveled more than 10,000 kilometers from June 18th to 23rd. The "Culture in Xinjiang" team of Shanghai Century Publishing Group came to Kashgar again to bring music and aesthetic education to the local area. The team, composed of ten people including Huang Qiang, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Shanghai Century Publishing Group, Sun Hongda, Secretary of the Party Branch and President of Shanghai Music Publishing House, and Li Juan, Vice President, went to the Shanghai Front Command for Supporting Xinjiang and related sub-commands, and conducted research on the cultural industries of Shache, Yecheng, Zepu and Bachu counties supported by Shanghai. At Bachu Vocational and Technical School, Shache No. 1 Middle School, Zepu County No. 8 Middle School and Yecheng County No. 2 Middle School, one after another "My Motherland and I" patriotic education music class always draws applause and singing from local students and young people. This year is the 19th National Congress of the People's Republic of China.

The last interactive question of the "Secret of Number 9" screening and creators' meeting was asked to the audience on the second floor of the Shanghai Grand Theater's Middle Theater, "I came to Shanghai from Hangzhou, and I want to ask if the creators have plans to perform in China in the future? Did you get any inspiration from Chinese culture during your visit to China this time?" On June 24, the "Magnolia Fragrance" benefit screening, "Secret of Number 9" screening and creators' meeting were held at the Shanghai Grand Theater's Middle Theater. The audience held posters, homemade banners, mobile phones, and cameras, applauding and recording. As one of the top three most popular films in this benefit screening, "Secret of Number 9" sold out in just one minute. There were still many audience members without tickets waiting outside the theater. The creators took a photo with the audience "Secret of Number 9" creators Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith watched "Secret of Number 9" with Chinese audiences.

"Although Zhao Ding was not born in Changshan, his last wish before his death to 'return to Changshan for burial' is enough to show that in his mind, Changshan is his hometown. My novel shows the process from Zhao Ding being framed by Qin Hui and others and exiled to Hainan, to his death in Hainan and being buried by knowledgeable people and returned to Changshan. Most of the plots are consistent with historical facts." On June 24, Zhou Xinhua, a writer from Quzhou, Zhejiang, came to Shanghai with his new work "The Story of the Lone Horse", which had just been published by Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House. At Jiantou Bookstore Pujiang Store, he and screenwriter and producer Huang Ji used the book as an introduction to introduce Changshan's Song Dynasty culture, sort out Changshan's cultural context, and explore more possibilities of integrating local culture into film and television works. "The Story of the Lone Horse" by Zhou Xinhua The story of "The Story of the Lone Horse" takes place in Lin'an, Changshan, Yazhou, Danzhou and other places during the Southern Song Dynasty. Zhou Xinhua at

The "strongest orchestra on earth", the Berlin Philharmonic, is finally here. It has a history of 142 years and has witnessed two world wars and the fall of the Berlin Wall. In the rankings of symphony orchestras in various countries in the world, it sits firmly in the top spot and rarely falls to second place. Since the reform and opening up, it has visited China six times, influencing generations of Chinese musicians and classical music fans. In Chaoyang District, Beijing, there is even a community named "Berlin Philharmonic"... From June 24 to July 2, artistic director Kirill Petrenko led the Berlin Philharmonic to participate in the special project "Berlin Philharmonic in Shanghai" of the China Shanghai International Art Festival. This is the first time that the Berlin Philharmonic has performed in China. Two months ago, the more than 6,000 tickets for the Berlin Philharmonic's four symphony concerts set a record of being sold out in 5 minutes, with more than 40% of the ticket-buying audience coming from abroad and 21 other countries across the country.

At 13:00 in the afternoon, director Yang Lei rushed to the Shanghai Exhibition Center from the airport on time, and appeared at the new drama launch conference of Huace Film & TV Group with the major historical TV series "The Peaceful Years". As a judge of the Chinese TV Series Unit of the 29th Shanghai TV Festival, he also had to rush to report to the conference affairs team. "I have spent more than a month intensively watching the works shortlisted for the Magnolia Awards." He said that for film and television people, the TV festival can bring everyone together and share what they have, "a year's sowing will be harvested at the TV festival." In addition to the appearance of new dramas and new works, there is another coincidence-"The Three-Body Problem", also directed by Yang Lei, has new news. In the afternoon of the same day, the "Immersive Real-life Experience Hall" based on the TV series "The Three-Body Problem" opened at Madame Tussauds in Shanghai People's Square. The Three-Body Theme Science Fiction Hall and the VR Large Space First Launch Flagship

"Dog Array", which was nominated for the Cannes International Film Festival for the first time and won the "Un Certain Regard" award, is obviously an allegorical work. However, it uses the shell of a genre film and incorporates realistic concerns, thus realizing the trinity of genre, reality and allegory. It is also a story that encompasses the past, present and future, expressing the protagonist's mental journey from despair, disappointment to hope, thus achieving the effect of using the West to metaphor China and China to reflect the world. Although the film's narrative is sometimes detached and the emotions are occasionally abrupt, it is natural for it to win the award with all kinds of clever ideas. The shell of the film is a classic western genre. The story takes place in Chixia Town, a small town on the edge of the Gobi Desert in western China. The opening shot gives enough sense of the genre of westerns. A bus is coming from afar on the desolate Gobi Desert, and a burst of monsters...

This morning, the Shanghai Museum officially announced that the Shanghai Museum East Building will reopen to the public from June 26. Visitors can make reservations for the Shanghai Museum East Building for the next 14 days on the "Shanghai Museum Visit Reservation" applet from 12 noon on June 25. With the closing of the special exhibition "Starry China: Sanxingdui and Jinsha Ancient Shu Civilization Exhibition" on May 21, the Shanghai Museum East Building will be temporarily closed to the public. After more than a month of intensive construction and exhibition, the Shanghai Museum East Building completed the second node in the "trilogy" of opening. After reopening, 10 exhibition halls and interactive experience spaces will be added, and the open area will reach about 80% of the exhibition space. The daily reception limit will also be increased to 20,000 people per day. Visitors will see the four permanent exhibition halls of the general history of ancient Chinese art series in the reopened Shanghai Museum East Building, including the Ceramics Hall, the Seal Carving Hall, the Jade Hall, and the Currency Hall.

In the AIGC era, what new talents and new ideas are there in Shanghai's animation industry? The "Our Festival - Shanghai Animation Inter-school Exhibition" currently being held at the Shanghai Library's East Hall brings together young talents from all academic education sectors including undergraduate, junior college and secondary vocational education majors in Shanghai's animation majors for the first time. It is also the first time that graduation design works of Shanghai's animation majors are assembled for overall public exhibition. It is also the first time that readers and audiences are invited to participate in the form of blindly opening a "treasure box". This is a fresh appearance for schools, students and even the industries that these young people may enter in the future. The metal cabinets, which are gray on the outside and red on the inside, are neatly distributed on each floor of the Shanghai Library's East Hall. Each metal cabinet belongs exclusively to a school with an animation and game design major, highlighting the artistic personality expression of the school's professional graduates. Open the door and you can see the "treasure chest".

2024 marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France. The national humanities and arts project "ARTSHANGHAI European National Collection Exhibition" has launched a new special unit - the Sino-French women's film project "Her in Creation". The screening section of this special unit is co-organized by the Shanghai Art Film Alliance and Shanghai Han and Tang Cultural Exhibition Co., Ltd., and will be presented in the form of "French Film Week" at Shanghai Film City and Shanghai Baimeihui Cinema from June 28 to July 7, showing the audience 6 outstanding contemporary French women's films that have important historical significance in film history and have emerged in recent years. Female filmmakers have an indelible influence on the origin, development, and promotion of film art. "Her in Creation" puts forward the concept of "the woman behind the camera", that is, women stand behind the camera as gazers and storytellers.

This June marks the 120th anniversary of Lin Huiyin's birth. To commemorate this outstanding woman in China's modern cultural history, the Shanghai Association for Chinese and Foreign Cultural and Art Exchange, Yinshe Academy, and Shanghai School of Art recently jointly launched a series of activities with Shanghai Yinshe Academy to review Lin Huiyin's achievements in novels, essays, poetry, drama, architecture, and fine arts. On June 22, Xu Jilin, a researcher at the Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture of East China Normal University and a professor in the Department of History, gave a lecture entitled "Commemorating the 120th Anniversary of the Birth of Lin Huiyin". It became the first lecture of the "Lecture on Modern Chinese Culture Masters" in the "Yinshe 2024 Annual Series of High-end Cultural and Art Public Welfare Lectures". On the same day, a book, picture, and document exhibition commemorating the 120th anniversary of Lin Huiyin's birth was also held at Yinshe Academy, using a wealth of books, pictures, and documentary materials to show Lin Huiyin's short but brilliant life.

On Xinhua Road, a huge TV festival poster is posted at the intersection. The main body of the picture is the vague Oriental Pearl Tower, which is one of the witnesses of the development of China's radio and television industry. After bidding farewell to the Shanghai International Film Festival, the 29th Shanghai TV Festival officially opened on June 24. This week, the magnolia is fragrant again, and Shanghai has launched "TV Time". Shanghai TV Festival logo Excellent works from home and abroad gathered at the TV festival. In the poster of this TV festival, the picture captures the changes in the spherical lighting landscape on the Oriental Pearl TV Tower through real shots, which means "same screen, same frequency". Designer Pang Hao said: "This is an invitation letter from Shanghai to audiences all over the world." Every year, the Magnolia Award selection of the TV Festival is hailed as the "barometer" of the industry. This film and television selection award with international competitiveness, recognition and influence received 40,000 applications from all over the world this year.

"People hope for a couple and the moon is full", "A sad world", "You said I won't forgive you"... With the Shanghai opera "Thunderstorm" being performed at the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Culture and Art Center, Shanghai has added a new Shanghai opera inheritance and aesthetic education base. In order to comprehensively promote aesthetic education, improve the artistic quality of the whole people, and deeply implement and integrate the core concepts of Shanghai's social aesthetic education plan, the Waigaoqiao Shanghai Opera Inheritance and Aesthetic Education Base, jointly built by the Waigaoqiao Culture and Art Center and the Shanghai Shanghai Opera House, was unveiled on June 23. The base specially hired outstanding young actors from the Shanghai Shanghai Opera House, Ding Yebo, Jiang Zishan, and Wang Hanxin, as artistic directors. The Shanghai opera "Thunderstorm" was adapted from Wu Chen's play "Cold Night Song". It was first performed on the Shanghai opera stage by Shi Xiaoying, Shao Binsun, and Xiao Aiqin in 1950. It was adapted and reorganized on the stage in 1979 and has been sung ever since, leaving behind "Couple Meeting" and "Garden"

The Hangjiahu Plain is a typical alluvial plain. The uninterrupted sea invasion makes it difficult to confirm the time when this area was formed. Experts believe that the latest time of land formation should be 8,000 years ago. The excavation of the Majiabang cultural site in Jiaxing proves this time point. The cultural relics of this rice farming are 7,200 years old, and rice grains were unearthed in the site. The time when the nine peaks and twelve mountains in Songjiang, Shanghai and their connection line formed land should be consistent with the Hangjiahu Plain. The Gangshen Line formed later is a tangible mark of Shanghai's land formation, which was 6,500 years ago. This coastline is winding and constitutes a section of the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. The southern section of the Gangshen Line was also the coastline of the Hangjiahu Plain at that time. This coastline runs from Waigang Town in Jiading District today to Shaji Village in Jinshan District. The distance between these two points is about 80 kilometers.

On the morning of June 21st local time, the 10th China-France Brand Summit Forum opened at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. As the only representative of the domestic cultural industry group, China Literature Group signed an IP co-creation cooperation with the Eiffel Foundation of France and the Sino-French Brand Aesthetics Center, aiming to enhance cultural and creative exchanges between the two countries' industries and promote Chinese IP to France and the world. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France and the China-France Cultural Tourism Year. Paris will also usher in the 33rd Summer Olympics. As one of the official series of activities for the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France, this forum is themed "The Journey from Chinese Brands to Global Brands." At the scene, China Literature Group, the Eiffel Foundation of France, and the Sino-French Brand Aesthetics Center jointly launched the "Read and Appreciate Paris" plan. The plan invited the famous French illustrator Antoine Cabino

On June 20, Shanghai Cinema SHO screened two "Ghost in the Shell" movies in a row. The intermission lasted nearly an hour, and many viewers took a nap in front of the Shanghai Cinema Anniversary Exhibition installation on the second floor. The long white table meanders like a river, showing the more than 30-year history of Shanghai Cinema. The table was piled with canvas bags and milk tea cups. Young movie fans gathered around the table. Some gave their own "material" postcards to their friends, and some took out their mobile phones and wrote down their feelings about the movie in a little red book, just like the winding water flowing wine cups at the Lanting Gathering a thousand years ago, sharing the flowing feast of the movie. The audience waited to watch the movie in the exhibition area of ​​Shanghai Cinema. Photo by Jian Gongbo This year, the Shanghai International Film Festival and the Shanghai Citizens Cultural Festival joined hands to continue to hold the "Truth, Goodness and Beauty in Movies" citizen theme essay contest, inviting citizens to write in words about the films they watched at the Shanghai International Film Festival.

The original American Broadway classic musical "Chicago", which has been performed for nearly 50 years, has been performed over 35,000 times around the world. This year's China tour in Shanghai will be held at the AIA Theatre in North Bund, from June 19th to 23rd, with eight consecutive performances. At the premiere, not only the leading actors Sarah Shotart, Jarunga Scott, and Ian Kelsey appeared at the meet-and-greet, but also 10 domestic musical crews helped out, and more than 40 celebrity guests such as musical actors Liu Lingfei and Jia Fan walked the red carpet. The audience who bought tickets for the "Chicago" performance on that day "unlocked" a unique theater-watching experience-watching the performance with the musical actors. "I didn't expect my favorite musical actor to be sitting next to me!" The leading actors of the crew attended the meet-and-greet. It is reported that this round of "Chicago" China tour is exclusively operated by Poly, which is also

Early bird tickets for the Shanghai Museum's "Top of the Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Civilization Exhibition" went on sale on May 20, and all 200,000 early bird tickets were sold out in just 30 days. At 17:00 yesterday afternoon, the Shanghai Museum opened reservations for visitors who had purchased early bird tickets to visit the exhibition, and ordinary tickets went on sale simultaneously. Starting yesterday, visitors who have purchased early bird tickets can choose a visiting date and session within 30 days from the opening date of the exhibition to make reservations, that is, starting yesterday, they can make reservations for visits from July 19 to August 18, and then the reservation date can be postponed by one day every day. The reporter opened the Shanghai Museum's reservation applet today and found that the reservations for a few days before the opening of the exhibition were full. It is reported that after a successful reservation for early bird tickets, the ticket can be rescheduled three times, and can be rescheduled to all open days before December 31, 2024. At the same time, ordinary tickets for the exhibition have gone on sale, from now until

"I am the head of the China office of a multinational company. My strength is that I am very perseverant. I have run several marathons. I think I can play the role of Mr. He well." "I want to apply for the role of 'Shanshan'. He is a new Shanghainese in the play, and I am also a new Shanghainese in real life. I agree with the character introduction of 'representing innovation and modernity'." On the afternoon of June 20, in the reader's study room of the North Railway Station, the mobile theater "Butterfly Talk·Suhewan", a project supported by the Jing'an District Cultural Development Special Fund, was announced to be launched and ushered in the first script reading meeting. "Let's go all out!" The amateur actor who came to apply for the job read out the lines in Shanghainese, which drew laughter and applause. The amateur actors who came to apply for the job Photographed by Shi Chenlu "Butterfly Talk·Suhewan" tells the story of a traditional Chinese noodle shop by the Suzhou River in Shanghai facing fierce competition in the catering industry in modern society

In 2023, the total sales revenue of online games in Shanghai will be 144.528 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.89%. Among them, domestic sales revenue was 119.011 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.77%; overseas sales revenue was approximately RMB 25.517 billion, a year-on-year increase of 0.09%, both of which were better than the national average. On the afternoon of June 20, the annual Shanghai Game Elite Summit was held in Shanghai, and the "2023-2024 Shanghai Game Publishing Industry Report" was released on site. A reporter from the Liberation Daily and Shangguan News learned from the meeting that the total sales revenue of online games in Shanghai in the first half of this year is expected to reach 74 billion yuan. Judging from national data, the actual sales revenue of the Chinese game market in 2023 reached 302.964 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.95%. It is worth noting that

Shanghai is the birthplace of Chinese film and one of the birthplaces of modern Chinese pop music. "This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of New China. Over the past 75 years, Chinese film and television music has undergone a glorious development process, like the pulse of the times, beating in the hearts of the audience." Wang Jianjun, Chairman of the Shanghai Television Artists Association and Vice President of the China Radio and Television Social Organization Federation, said. On June 17 and 18, as part of the Shanghai International Film and Television Festival, the 2024 Film and Television Music Festival and the 2024 China Film and Television Music Industry Seminar were successively held in Shanghai. Composers, film and television music workers, music scholars and industry experts discussed the topic of "focusing on Chinese film and television music to promote the in-depth development of the 'Shanghai Culture' brand building and further enhance the city's cultural soft power and competitiveness." Shanghai hosted the first

In less than a week, Peking Opera master Song Xiaochuan had two films appear in succession at the Shanghai International Film Festival. In the Peking Opera film "The Unicorn", he played opposite Zhang Huoding; in the youth film "Daocang" about life in a drama school, he transformed himself into the "drama fanatic" Zhang Yongming. From July 20 to 21, the Peking Opera "Entering Beijing", starring Song Xiaochuan and others, will be staged at the Wanping Theater, performing the legend of Peking Opera artists on stage. "Entering Beijing" was created and staged by the Nanjing Peking Opera Troupe in 2023. It was selected as an outstanding repertoire of the 10th China Peking Opera Art Festival and received funding from the National Arts Fund in 2024. The play is adapted from the film script "Entering the Capital", which took playwright Zou Jingzhi six years to polish. It tells the story of the young martial arts actor Wang Changsheng during the Qianlong period, who was the hope of the Yangzhou Chuntai Troupe. He was unwilling to be a humble opera artist and was

"Shanghai and Hong Kong are the few places where movies can be named after the city. The relationship between the city and the movie is a process of mutual definition. The city itself gave birth to Shanghai movies. We can find many places related to movies in the city. These movies also allow us to better imagine the past, present and future of this city." At the "Integration and Symbiosis: Film and City Forum" held on June 18, Sha Dan, program planner of the China Film Archive and curator of the Beijing Film Festival, spoke from the perspective of an observer and professional film researcher about the unique charm of Shanghai, a city of movies, and the mutually supportive relationship between film creation. "Integration and Symbiosis: Film and City Forum" scene, Zhong Han took a photo. At the 10th anniversary event of the Shanghai University Shanghai Vancouver Film School held on the same day, Shanghai Vancouver Film School Director and Director Jia