Shanghai International Film Festival
The International Film Festival Shanghai (Chinese上海 国际 电影 节, pinyin Shànghǎi Guoji diànyǐngjié ), also known as Shanghai International Film Festival ( SIFF ) is known, one of the largest international film festivals in the world.
Founded in Shanghai in 1993, already was the first festival of 300,000 spectators, including 200 journalists attended. 167 films from 33 countries ran in competition and in the Panorama section. Not least because these figures, the Shanghai International Film Festival has been recognized in the same year as one of the few film festivals with competition from film producers association FIAPF and is thus formally equivalent such as the International Film Festival of Cannes. It took until 2001 every second year instead, since in the year June. In 2003, the festival fell out because of the SARS pandemic.
The festival is divided into four main parts:
- International competition with the "Golden Cup " (金 爵 奖/金 爵 奖, Jin Jue jiǎng, English Golden Goblet ) in several categories
- International panorama
- Film- academic seminar
- International film market