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Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff) has revealed the titles set to compete at its upcoming 27th edition, including the latest features by Cao Baoping, Aktan Arym Kubat and Antonio Ferreira.

They are among 49 titles that will vie for its Golden Goblet Awards, including 12 each from the main competition and the Asian New Talent competition, most of which are world premieres.

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A trio from China are running in the main competition, including Cao Baoping’s Tianjin-set crime comedy drama One Wacky Summer; Qiu Sheng’s latest China-France collaboration My Father’s Son; and Wang Tong’s feature debut Wild Nights,...

The 27th Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff) has unveiled its Golden Goblet Awards selection, with 49 films competing across five categories.

This year’s edition has set new records, with competition sections receiving over 2,800 submissions from 119 countries and regions, marking notable increases in entries from the Americas and Africa. Short film submissions alone rose 18% year-over-year.

The main competition features 12 titles spanning diverse territories. These include Chilean-u.K.-French co-production “After the Fog” directed by Miriam Heard, Kyrgyzstan’s “Black Red Yellow” from Aktan Arym Kubat, and Brazil’s “Cyclone” directed by Flavia Castro. Chinese cinema is well-represented with entries including “My Father’s Son” (Qiu Sheng), “One Wacky Summer” (Cao Baoping), and “Wild Nights, Tamed Beasts” (Wang Tong). The section also features Poland’s “Loss of Balance” (Korek Bojanowski), Germany’s “Luisa” (Julia Roesler), Japan’s “On Summer Sand” (Shinya Tamada), Argentina-Spain-Chile’s “The Reborn” (Santiago Esteves), Portugal-Brazil’s “The Scent...

Lithuanian filmmaker Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Toxic, a coming-of-age teenage tale, secured this year’s Work in Progress prize at Meeting Point Vilnius (Mpv), the annual audiovisual industry event that takes place during the Vilnius International Film Festival, Kino Pavasaris.

The award lands the filmmaking team a €5,000 cash prize from the Lithuanian Film Centre,

Toxic is being produced by Lithuania’s Giedrė Burokaitė, with Bliuvaitė, the pair are looking for a sales agent and “a premiere at a film festival” for the title which they anticipate finishing by the end of May this year.

It is about a young girl abandoned...

15th edition took place online due to Covid-19 pandemic.

Turkey’s Meetings on the Bridge project development and post-production event has unveiled the winners of its 15th edition which ran online on April 14 -17 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Turkish director Selman Nacar’s intergenerational social drama Between Two Dawns won the top Andalou Efes Award, worth some $4,300, in the work in progress section.

Nacar’s debut feature following a number of award-winning shorts revolves around a young man who is pressured into covering up a serious accident at his family’s factory. It is produced by director-producer Burak Çevik at Kuyu Film,...

The winners of the Istanbul Film Festival’s co-production platform include the upcoming project by Ziya Demirel, and the debuts by Gözde Yetişkin, Emre Sert, Selman Nacar and Nazlı Elif Durlu. The 15th edition of Meetings on the Bridge was compelled to adhere to the measures declared by the World Health Organization in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, hence it transferred its entire programme online. Running from 14-17 April, the international co-production, training and networking platform organised as an integral part of the Istanbul Film Festival drew to a close with the online announcement of the awards, where the head of Meetings on the Bridge, Gülin Üstün, thanked the team, the supporters, the awards sponsors, the jury members and the participants. Afterwards, the director of the Istanbul Film Festival, Kerem Ayan, sent his own video message. The winners were chosen from among 19 film projects in development and eight in post-production,...