{"id":730767,"date":"2026-06-01T06:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/shanghai-film-festival-unveils-competition-section-packed-with-world-premieres\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T06:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:50:16","slug":"shanghai-film-festival-unveils-competition-section-packed-with-world-premieres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/shanghai-film-festival-unveils-competition-section-packed-with-world-premieres\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Film Festival Unveils Competition Section Packed With World Premieres"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tThe Shanghai International Film Festival unveiled the main competition lineup for its Golden Goblet Awards over the weekend, with all 12 titles bowing as world premieres \u2014 a first in the section\u2019s history, according to the festival. The 28th edition runs June 12-21.<\/p>\n

\n\tThree of the main competition entries are Chinese-language productions, all from emerging directors. In total, 49 titles across five competitive sections are vying for prizes, drawn from a record submission pool of roughly 4,100 films from 125 countries and regions.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe main competition spans 15 countries and territories. The Chinese-language entries are Zhong Kaifeng\u2019s Atlantic Rhapsody<\/em> and Liu Xiaoyang\u2019s The Great Skull<\/em>, both from the mainland, and Frankie Tam Gong-Yuen\u2019s Secret in the Box<\/em>, a mainland\u2013Hong Kong co-production. Atlantic Rhapsody<\/em> is said to blend drama, comedy and fantasy in a story about a supermarket stock clerk left sleepless and hearing voices after he accidentally cooks a shark. The Great Skull<\/em>, a dark comedy starring Wen Qi, Ni Hongjie and Yu Entai, follows a soon-to-graduate young woman and her mother as they contend with a \u201cfuneral committee\u201d her father had quietly arranged before his sudden death. Secret in the Box<\/em>, led by Zhang Songwen, Patrick Tam and Isabella Leong, draws on Hong Kong\u2019s 1970s \u201cBox Murder Case\u201d \u2014 the first local case cracked through forensic evidence \u2014 in a story about a convicted man who protests his innocence for decades and the young investigator who keeps digging.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe only other Asian title in the section is Indonesian director Ismail Basbeth\u2019s My Own Last Supper<\/em>, with Europe securing most of the rest of the slots. Germany lands two entries, Josef Brandl\u2019s Superbuhei and Susanne Heinrich\u2019s The Miserable Mother<\/em>, the latter sharing its world premiere with the Munich International Film Festival, alongside Reis \u00c7elik\u2019s Turkey-Germany co-production Night of Blindness<\/em>, Nicol\u00e1s Rinc\u00f3n Gille\u2019s Belgian title Iluminada<\/em>, Alan Minas\u2019s Brazil-U.K. co-production Luiza\u2019s Desert<\/em>, Daniil Merkulov\u2019s Russian entry Sea Son<\/em>s, Yassine El Idrissi\u2019s Moroccan feature Halima<\/em> and Louis Godbout\u2019s Canadian entry The Parking Spot.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tThe all-world-premiere main competition makes clear that SIFF would rather be a launchpad for new talent than a downstream showcase for prominent prestige titles already circulating on the festival circuit.<\/p>\n

\n\tHong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai presides over the seven-member main competition jury. The panel includes Chinese director Guan Hu, whose Black Dog<\/em> won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes in 2024; Georgian writer-director D\u00e9a Kulumbegashvili, whose April<\/em> played in competition at Venice in 2024; Mexican filmmaker Fernanda Valadez, who took the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award at Sundance in 2020; Chinese actress Xin Zhilei, named best actress at Venice last year for The Sun Rises on Us All<\/em>; Tunisian producer Dora Bouchoucha; and Kyrgyz director Aktan Arym Kubat.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Asian New Talent section, reserved for debut and second features by Asian directors, features 12 titles this year. Once again, all are world premieres except Thai director Sompot Chidgasornpongse\u2019s 9 Temples to Heaven<\/em>, which debuted in Directors\u2019 Fortnight at Cannes in May. Chinese-language titles again dominate, including Zhang Hanyi\u2019s Cassowary<\/em>, Gong Yiwen\u2019s Her First Taste<\/em>, Liu Shichuan\u2019s No Hard Feelings<\/em>, Wan Bo\u2019s Strangers in the Mountain<\/em> and Mak Tin Shu\u2019s mainland\u2013Hong Kong co-production Dog Day Evening<\/em>. Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen, whose Ilo Ilo<\/em> won the Cannes Camera d\u2019Or in 2013, chairs the section\u2019s jury.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe documentary and animation competitions present five titles apiece, rounded out by 10 live-action and five animated shorts. U.S. filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir chairs the documentary jury and British animator Will Becher heads the animation panel.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe festival opens June 12 with Afterpiece<\/em>, a Hong Kong psychological drama produced by Derek Yee and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Keane T.K. Wong. The film, which grew out of the Hong Kong government\u2019s Directors\u2019 Succession Scheme, stars Stephen Fung as a blocked stage director who becomes dangerously entangled with a young actress during casting.<\/p>\n

\n\tSHANGHAI\u2019S 28TH GOLDEN GOBLET AWARDS \u2014 FULL SELECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tMain Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n

Atlantic Rhapsody<\/em>, Zhong Kaifeng (China)
Halima<\/em>, Yassine El Idrissi (Morocco)
Iluminada<\/em>, Nicol\u00e1s Rinc\u00f3n Gille (Belgium)
Luiza\u2019s Desert<\/em>, Alan Minas (Brazil, U.K.)
My Own Last Supper<\/em>, Ismail Basbeth (Indonesia)
Night of Blindness<\/em>, Reis \u00c7elik (Turkey, Germany)
Sea Sons<\/em>, Daniil Merkulov (Russia)
Secret in the Box<\/em>, Frankie Tam Gong-Yuen (China, Hong Kong)
Superbuhei<\/em>, Josef Brandl (Germany)
The Great Skull<\/em>, Liu Xiaoyang (China)
The Miserable Mother<\/em>, Susanne Heinrich (Germany, France)
The Parking Spot<\/em>, Louis Godbout (Canada)<\/p>\n

\n\tAsian New Talent<\/strong><\/p>\n

9 Temples to Heaven<\/em>, Sompot Chidgasornpongse (Thailand)
About the Mother<\/em>, B\u00fc\u015fra B\u00fclb\u00fcl (Turkey)
Boomah<\/em>, Zaid Abu Hamdan (Jordan, Saudi Arabia)
Cassowary<\/em>, Zhang Hanyi (China)
Dog Day Evening<\/em>, Mak Tin Shu (China, Hong Kong)
Her First Taste<\/em>, Gong Yiwen (China)
Hunter\u2019s Moon<\/em>, Ridham Janve (India, Germany)
No Good in Sight: A Story<\/em>, Alibi Mukushev (Kazakhstan)
No Hard Feelings<\/em>, Liu Shichuan (China)
Skylark<\/em>, Narghiza Dotieva (Kyrgyzstan)
Strangers in the Mountain<\/em>, Wan Bo (China)
The Blind Girl and an Elephant<\/em>, Ishtiyak Ahmad Zihad (Bangladesh, Germany)<\/p>\n

\n\tDocumentary<\/strong><\/p>\n

Benigno<\/em>, David Baute (Spain)
Notes Unheard<\/em>, Gu Yun (China)
Ruins<\/em>, Elena Chemerska (North Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia)
The Tiger of the East<\/em>, Jorge Acevedo (Chile)
Wheels of Forgotten Dreams<\/em>, Milos Ljubomirovic, Danilo Lazovic (Serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia)<\/p>\n

\n\tAnimation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amadeo and the Hypothetical New World<\/em>, Brenda L\u00edgia, Edu Felistoque (Brazil)
Dante<\/em>, Linda Hamb\u00e4ck (Sweden, Norway, Denmark)
Garuda: Dare to Dream<\/em>, Ronny Gani (Indonesia)
\u00a0Lucy Lost<\/em>, Olivier Clert (France)
Winnipeg, Seeds of Hope<\/em>, Elio Guiroga, Be\u00f1at Beitia (Spain, Chile, Argentina)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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