The tenth Beijing International Film Festival, a highly anticipated occasion that is expected to stimulate the recovery of the Chinese film industry, will showcase more than three hundred films, with around a hundred titles released in 18 theaters, organizers said Thursday.
Among the programming, about 250 films, 50 of which are new domestic and foreign titles, will be available on the iQiyi broadcast site, the largest release of its kind.
In addition to the online release, the festival will broadcast 20 quality films on 3 Beijing satellite TV channels, marking the first time national festival channels have been switched to a television network to expand their display platforms.
The outdoor screening, once a familiar entertainment for the Chinese a few decades ago, will return to the festival as one of the 4 means of screening. Twenty-four classics, in addition to Romance at Lushan Mountain and Undine, will be screened outdoors as a component of the festival.
Eight established celebrities and connoisseurs, director Zhang Yimou, actor Chen Daoming and Wu, will open the festival with speeches.
So far, the Beijing festival market, a sector that attracts combined investors and distributors, has won 829 tenders, up 13% year by year. All industry negotiations will take place online, basically through a virtual formula that combines virtual and 3-d truth techniques.
Expected sector for young people and moviegoers, the festival’s 10 primary forums plan to invite about 80 veterans, initiates and researchers. Apart from that, her master elegance will invite foreign filmmakers, adding Cannes-winning Little Joe director Jessica Hausner.
The Beijing festival, postponed by COVID-19, will take place in the Chinese capital from 22 to 29 April.