The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival has revealed the competition lineup for its Golden Goblet Awards, with selections spanning fiction, documentary, animation, live action short film and animated short film. The festival will be held from June 12 to June 21.
The main competition includes 12 world premieres from 15 countries and territories. Titles in the lineup include Indonesia’s “My Own Last Supper,” directed by Ismail Basbeth; Turkey-Germany co-production “Night of Blindness” by Reis Çelik; Morocco’s “Halima” by Yassine El Idrissi; China’s “Atlantic Rhapsody” by Zhong Kaifeng and “The Great Skull” by Liu Xiaoyang; and the Chinese Mainland-Hong Kong co-production “Secret in the Box” by Frankie Tam Gong-Yuen. Other contenders include “Iluminada” from Nicolás Rincón Gille, “Luiza’s Desert” from Alan Minas, “Sea Sons” from Daniil Merkulov, Germany’s “Superbuhei” and “The Miserable Mother,” and Canada’s “The Parking Spot.” Susanne Heinrich’s “The Miserable Mother” will share its world premiere with the Munich International Film Festival.
The main competition jury is chaired by Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai. He is joined by Tunisian producer Dora Bouchoucha, Chinese filmmaker Guan Hu, Kyrgyz director Aktan Arym Kubat, Mexican writer-director-producer Fernanda Valadez, Chinese actor Xin Zhilei and Georgian director Déa Kulumbegashvili.
The Asian New Talent section, which focuses on debut and second features by Asian directors, also features 12 titles. The selection includes India-Germany co-production “Hunter’s Moon,” Thailand’s “9 Temples to Heaven,” Kazakhstan’s “No Good in Sight: A Story,” Bangladesh-Germany co-production “The Blind Girl and an Elephant,” Turkey’s “About the Mother,” Jordan-Saudi Arabia co-production “Boomah,” and Kyrgyzstan’s “Skylark.” China is represented by four films: “Cassowary,” “Her First Taste,” “No Hard Feelings,” and the Mainland-Hong Kong co-production “Dog Day Evening.” Wan Bo’s “Strangers in the Mountain” is also in the section.
Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen heads the Asian New Talent jury, which also includes Kamila Andini, Liu Jiayin, Farkhat Sharipov and Wen Qi.
The documentary competition features five world premieres: China’s “Notes Unheard,” Chile’s “The Tiger of the East,” Spain’s “Benigno,” North Macedonia-Croatia-Slovenia co-production “Ruins,” and the Serbia-Bulgaria-Croatia title “Wheels of Forgotten Dreams.”
The animation competition includes Brazil’s “Amadeo and the Hypothetical New World,” the Scandinavian co-production “Dante,” Indonesia’s “Garuda: Dare to Dream,” France’s “Lucy Lost,” and the Spain-Chile-Argentina co-production “Winnipeg, Seeds of Hope.”
The festival is guided by the China Film Administration and hosted by China Media Group together with the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government.
