Shanghai film fest unveils jury and films
- By Zhang Rui
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Serbian director Emir Kusturica will head the jury that will decide the winners of the Golden Goblet Award at the Shanghai International Film Festival. The film titles that will compete were also revealed yesterday in Shanghai.
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A poster for 2016 Shanghai International Film Festival. [Photo / siff.com] |
According to the festival organizers, the other jurors include Canadian director Atom Egoyan, Chinese actress Karena Lam, Italian director Daniele Luchetti, Chinese director Pema Tseden, Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako and Chinese writer Yan Geling.
Fourteen shortlisted films will race for the Golden Goblet Award as the main competition during the Shanghai festival, including three Chinese films, "Cock and Bull" by Cao Baoping, "De Lan" by Liu Jie and "Soul on a String" by Zhang Yang. Other films that will compete include Werner Herzog's "Salt And Fire," Antti Jokinen's "Pahan Kukat (Flowers of Evil)," Andreas Gruber's "Hannas schlafende Hunde (Hanna's Sleeping Dogs)" among others.
"Cold War 2," the upcoming Hong Kong crime thriller directed by Longman Leung and Sunny Luk, will open the film festival.
The organizers also unveiled the film titles that will be screened during the festival’s Panorama section. There will be a special screening for Pixar animations, the Harry Potter series, a Retrospective of the Films of Leslie Cheung, a screening of Fox's Oscar winning film special and a nostalgic showing of the sci-fi classic "Independence Day," as well as "Tribute to Masters," "Classic 007 Films Screening," "Oscar Film Panorama," "Jackie Chan Action Movie Week," "New Works of Renowned Japanese Directors," "Korean Films," "Retrospective of Recent Works of Woody Allen," a "4K Restored Classic Film Panorama" and others. Forty-five cinemas in Shanghai will participate in the film screening.
Ticket sales will start at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday.
The 19th annual Shanghai International Film Festival will be held from June 11 to 19, 2016.
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