Largest Asian Panorama Diversified Platform for Cultural Exchange

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In addition to the Golden Goblet and Asian New Talent awards, this year\'s SIFF will include the Opening Film, Closing Film, Tribute to Masters, SIFF Highlights, Focus China, Classics Revisited, Spectrum, Touch 3D, Global Village, MIDA Documentary, Film Talks, Short Panorama and other sections, gathering hundreds of new excellent films from home and abroad.

Tribute to Masters
As the golden section in Panorama, Tribute to Masters this year will be especially exciting. The Organizing Committee arranged a retrospective of Elizabeth Taylor, the famous Hollywood actress. Cleopatra, The Blue Bird and The Only Game in Town will be screened to honor the legendary beauty.

Official Recommendation
This part includes the films recommended by the organizing committee to the audiences and debut films. This year\'s official recommendation boasts various hit films, including Arirang, a winner at the Cannes Film Festival, is the first film by Korean director Ki-duk Kim.

Global Village
This  part will continue holding nation-level activities on film shooting, ithers.The newly-added British film  including many British films such as Wuthering Heights, Senna, We Need to Talk About Kevin  and so on.

Multi-perspective
There are documentaries, animation, and feature films to be screened including Despicable Me, My Week With Marilyn, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Untouchable, Love Fiction, No Rest For The Wicked, Scabbard Samurai and Last Winter, among others.

MIDA Documentary
This year, there are 20 documentaries to be screened during the SIFF, including Hometown Boy, Shoji & Takao, First Position, The Eyes of War and many others. As the biggest and highest-level documentary event in Asia, MIDA Documentary has attracted good documentaries recommended by the 5 biggest global documentary film festivals.

Classics Rescreening
It is to rescreen the repaired classic including Crossroads, The Spring River Flows East, Eight Thousand Li of Cloud And Moon. These rarest events initiated by international film festival with the assistance of Chinese and foreign professional repairing institutions

Short Film Screening
More than 30 short films including Middle-aged Adventuies: Out of Breath by Chinese director Huang Lei are arranged to be screened, and they are to compete for 10 awards like Best Short Film, Best Director, Best Originality, Best Plot, Best Comedy, Best Animation, Best Actions, Best Picture, Best Documentary, Best public short films and Spectator Award.