International film
representatives meet the audience at the opening ceremony of the
16th Golden Rooster International Film Exhibition in Suzhou, east
China's Jiangsu Province on Tuesday. Over 20 films from home and
abroad will be screened during the exhibition.
Twenty international movies will be screened during China's
national film festival, Golden Rooster and Full Blossom Film Festival,
scheduled to open on Wednesday.
The films, selected from more than 70 movies from all over the
world, will compete for the "the most popular international film"
and a few other awards of the festival.
These candidates include Pan's Labyrinth, a joint
production of Mexico and Spain, and the Best Picture winner in
Cannes 2006, Lights in The Dusk, a candidate for the
Foreign Language Film of79th Academy Award made by Finland, Germany
and France, and the Dutch film Schnitzel Paradise, winner
of the Best Supporting Actor of the Netherlands Film Festival of
2005.
Two local residents in
Suzhou of east China's Jiangsu province enjoy looking at posters of
films to be screened during the 16th Golden Rooster International
Film Exhibition in this photo taken on Tuesday, Oct. 23,
2007.
The Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival is the
annual pageant of Chinese movies, and also a gala of selected
foreign movies.
Chinese audience, including film critics, university students
and local movie fans, will vote for their favorite films,
directors, actors and actresses after watching 20 films in the
three-day Foreign Films Show at the 16th Golden Rooster and Full
Blossom Film Festival.
A lady passes by a giant
poster for the upcoming 16th Golden Rooster and Full Blossom Film
Festival, which will open in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu province
on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007.
(Xinhua News Agency October 24, 2007)
