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Shnaghai International Film Festival The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival has unveiled the competition lineup for its Golden Goblet Awards, spanning five categories across fiction, documentary, animation, and short film. The festival runs June 12-21.
The main competition features 12 titles drawn from 15 countries and territories, all of them world premieres. Among the contenders are Indonesia’s “My Own Last Supper,” directed by Ismail Basbeth; “Night of Blindness,” a Turkey-Germany co-production from Reis Çelik; and Yassine El Idrissi’s Moroccan entry “Halima.” China is represented by two titles: “Atlantic Rhapsody,” directed by Zhong Kaifeng, and Liu Xiaoyang’s “The Great Skull.” The Chinese Mainland-Hong Kong co-production “Secret in the Box,” directed by Frankie Tam Gong-Yuen, also competes, alongside Nicolás Rincón Gille’s Belgian entry “Iluminada,” Alan Minas’s Brazil-U.K. co-production “Luiza’s Desert,” and Daniil Merkulov’s Russian entry “Sea Sons.” Germany appears twice in the lineup – Josef Brandl’s “Superbuhei” and Susanne Heinrich’s “The Miserable Mother,” the latter sharing its world premiere with the Munich International Film Festival. Louis Godbout’s Canadian entry “The Parking Spot” rounds out the section.
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