Gong Zheng delivered a welcome speech, Hu Heping announced the opening, and the 26th Shanghai International Film Festival Golden Goblet Ceremony was held
The city of movies gathers people because of love. On the evening of June 15, the 26th Shanghai International Film Festival Golden Goblet Ceremony was held at the Shanghai Grand Theater, opening the annual light and shadow appointment for Shanghai. Hu Heping, deputy director of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee in charge of daily work, announced the opening of the 26th Shanghai International Film Festival. Gong Zheng, deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and mayor, delivered a welcome speech, and Wang Xiaozhen, deputy director of China Central Radio and Television, delivered a speech. Shanghai leaders Zhao Jiaming, Zhou Huilin, Liu Duo, and Jin Xingming attended the event.
Gong Zheng said in his speech that over the years, adhering to the festival positioning of "based in Asia, focusing on Chinese language, and supporting newcomers", the Shanghai International Film Festival has become the most influential film event in the Asia-Pacific region. At present, Shanghai is building a best practice site for Xi Jinping's cultural thoughts, and striving to be at the forefront in building a modern society with coordinated material and spiritual civilization. The film festival should bravely shoulder new missions, accelerate the creation of a Shanghai cultural brand with global influence, and contribute more to enhancing the city's cultural soft power and promoting the construction of a cultural power. The film festival should better promote cultural exchanges and become an important link for people from all countries to know each other; it should better accelerate industrial innovation, and look forward to more young filmmakers and original works standing out on the stage of the film festival, laying a solid foundation for the prosperity and development of the film industry; it should better promote cultural benefits for the people, and look forward to the film festival becoming a popular festival shared by the whole city and participated by all people, so that the general public can go to the appointment of light and shadow and appreciate the beauty of the city together.
At the ceremony, the opening micro-film "City of Movies" quickly brought the audience into the artistic atmosphere of Shanghai in summer. The judges of the five units of the Golden Goblet Awards, the main competition, Asian newcomers, documentaries, animations, and short films of this year's film festival appeared one after another. The chairman of the jury of the main competition unit, French director Chen Yingxiong, delivered a speech on behalf of the judges. Chinese actor Huang Xuan, Japanese actor Yakusho Koji, Hong Kong director Liu Weiqiang, and Chinese actor Xin Zhilei announced the 14 entries shortlisted for the main competition unit of this year's Golden Goblet Awards. Hosts Ren Luyu, Lan Yu, Chen Chen, Chinese director and producer Tang Jili, and Chinese director and screenwriter Zhang Mo jointly unfolded the story of "AI artificial intelligence". At the end of the ceremony, Chinese director Guan Hu and actor Huang Bo jointly unveiled the opening film "The Eternal Wave".
The 26th Shanghai International Film Festival will last for 10 days. Filmmakers and movie fans from all over the world will celebrate this grand festival together in Shanghai, the city of film.