Why has this film festival alliance expanded in the past 5 years?, From the first batch of 29 countries to 48 films | One Belt | Countries

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On the afternoon of June 9, before the press conference of the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival "the Belt and Road" Film Festival Alliance, the foreign filmmakers sitting in the guest seats happily exchanged views. Occasionally, they turned around and asked the staff in the back row to help take group photos, as if they had not seen an old friend for many years.

2023 is the tenth anniversary of the "the Belt and Road" initiative and the fifth anniversary of the "the Belt and Road" film. The "the Belt and Road" film festival alliance launched by the Shanghai International Film Festival will bear fruit again. At the press conference, representatives of newly joined members made an official appearance to share their cooperation plans; Huaxia Film Distribution Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Shanghai International Film Festival, and will provide assistance in the field of film production, distribution, talent training, content incubation, etc. of the members of the "the Belt and Road" Film Festival Alliance in the future.

The alliance has grown rapidly and achieved remarkable results

"My country only has 2 million people, and I am very happy to come to China and have the opportunity to cooperate with the Shanghai International Film Festival." Simon Popek, artistic director of the Ljubljana International Film Festival in Slovenia, looks forward to seeing more films from Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia and other countries at the Shanghai International Film Festival in the future, and also hopes to bring more Chinese films to Slovenia for screening.

Why has this film festival alliance expanded in the past 5 years?, From the first batch of 29 countries to 48 films | One Belt | Countries

Intuitive data shows the development of the the Belt and Road Film Festival Alliance. In the past two years, with the Bogota Film Festival in Colombia and the Ouagadougou Pan African Film Festival in Burkina Faso joining in one after another, the "the Belt and Road" Film Festival Alliance has grown from the first batch of 29 countries and 31 film institutions five years ago to 55 institutions from 48 countries today.

Since the recommendation of two films, "Carrying Heart, Hanging Gallbladder" and "Soul on a Leather Rope", to participate in the 20th Tallinn Night Film Festival in Estonia in 2017, 115 films have participated in the exchange tour promoted by the alliance, with nearly 300 domestic and international screenings. Excellent Chinese films such as "My Sister" and "A History of Rouqing" are all promoted to film festivals in various countries through exhibition mechanisms.

It is worth mentioning that in 2019, As the first Lebanese film introduced in cooperation with the Shanghai Film Festival, "How to Be a Home" won a box office of 376 million yuan in Chinese Mainland, and was also nominated for the best foreign language film at the 91st Academy Awards; In 2020, with the recommendation of Shanghai Film Festival, Mordaga was shortlisted in the main competition unit of the 42nd Cairo International Film Festival through the "the Belt and Road" film tour mechanism. The brand influence of the "the Belt and Road" Film Festival Alliance is constantly improving with "bringing in and going out".

The "the Belt and Road" Film Week of this film festival will show 20 films with the theme of "dialogue", of which 8 films will compete for three honors: "media pays attention to filmmakers", "media pays attention to films" and "the most popular film among audiences". Andreas Caesar, the director of Time Theorem, who was shortlisted for the honor contest, is from Mexico. He said that the film is a documentary about family history

Actively promoting the exchange of Chinese and foreign filmmakers

In recent years, through the "the Belt and Road" tour mechanism, many outstanding Chinese filmmakers have been invited to serve as judges in major film festivals.

Actor and producer Zhao Tao was invited to serve as a judge for the plot feature film unit at the 43rd Durban International Film Festival in South Africa in July 2022. The Durban International Film Festival, founded in 1979, is one of the most prestigious international film festivals in Africa. In April 2020, the Durban International Film Festival joined the "the Belt and Road" Film Festival Alliance, becoming the second institutional member from Africa in the Alliance. The Durban International Film Festival has invited Shanghai Film Festival to invite a Chinese female filmmaker to serve as the judge of the main competition unit of the festival by virtue of the platform power of the "the Belt and Road" Film Festival Alliance and the influence of Shanghai Film Festival in the Chinese and Asian film industry, so as to better realize the planning vision of the Durban International Film Festival, enhance friendly interaction between the two festivals, and deepen mutual learning and exchanges between Chinese and African film cultures. Recommended by the Shanghai Film Festival, Zhao Tao became a judge for this edition of the Durban International Film Festival.

Not only Zhao Tao, but also more Chinese filmmakers appeared in the film exchange and mutual learning of the "the Belt and Road": Jin Yangguang, the director of the forum department of Shanghai Film Festival, and Wu Jueren, the film critic, served as the judges of the Mexican feature film unit of the 2022 and 2021 International Film Festival in Guanajuato, Mexico, respectively; In 2019, director Zheng Dasheng served as a judge at the 16th Hungary Miskolc Film Festival.

At the press conference, Shanghai Film Festival signed a contract with Huaxia Film Distribution Co., Ltd., a domestic distribution giant, and the two sides will begin in-depth cooperation to jointly promote the cultural exchanges of films along the "the Belt and Road".

Huaxia Film Distribution Co., Ltd. is one of the two companies in China that have both domestic and imported film distribution rights. This year, the Shanghai International Film Festival and Huaxia Film Distribution Co., Ltd. will effectively promote the release and screening of Chinese films participating in the "the Belt and Road" film tour and films produced in the countries and regions where the members of the "the Belt and Road" film festival alliance are located in international cinemas or streaming media platforms, and promote the co production or co production cooperation of film projects in countries along the "the Belt and Road"; The two sides will also work together to promote the cultivation of film talents along the "the Belt and Road", jointly incubate original film content of countries along the "the Belt and Road", and commit to the comprehensive development of the "the Belt and Road" film industry.

The "the Belt and Road" Film Week will be launched in Pudong New Area on June 10. With the light and shadow works recommended by the member organizations of the "the Belt and Road" Film Festival Alliance, it will comprehensively display the development achievements of the Alliance and create more cooperation opportunities for Chinese and foreign films, filmmakers and film institutions to seek new development and jointly build a new pattern.

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