Shanghai International Film Festival Announces Competition Line-Up; Jerzy Skolimowski To Head Jury; Mike Leigh Featured In Tribute
deadline.comShanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) has unveiled the major competition selections for its 25th edition (June 9-18), which will be the first to be held in a fully physical format with international guests since before the pandemic.
The festival’s Golden Goblet Awards comprises five sections – Main Competition, Asian New Talent, Animation Film, Documentary Film and Short Film.
Winners will be announced at a ceremony in the Shanghai Grand Theater on June 17. SIFF’s main competition will screen 12 films, including Mom, Is That You?!, from Japanese veteran filmmaker Yoji Yamada; European titles including Muyeres, from Spanish director Marta Lallana, and The Chapel, from Belgium’s Dominique Deruddere; Indian director Haobam Paban Kumar’s Joseph’s Son; and three Chinese titles – Liu Jiayin’s All Ears, Johnathan Li’s Dust To Dust and Chen Shizhong’s Good Autumn, Mommy.
Poland’s Jerzy Skolimowski is heading the jury for the main competition, which also includes India’s Nandita Das, Indonesia’s Garin Nugroho, German DoP Lutz Reitemeier and China’s Song Jia, Vivian Qu and Zhang Lu.
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