The 27th Shanghai International Film Festival is set to run from June 13 to 22 in Shanghai, as announced by the event organizer during the festival's first international reception of 2025, held in Berlin on Feb 17.

The film gala will present the Golden Goblet Awards in five categories, namely Main Competition, Asian New Talent, Short Film Unit, Animation Film Unit, and Documentary Unit, according to Cao Yin, deputy managing director and deputy general manager of Shanghai International Film & TV Festivals.

Submissions for the 27th SIFF global screenings and Golden Goblet Awards nominations are due on March 31.

The reception in Berlin attracted representatives from film and media, with overseas guests accounting for more than 90 percent of all attendees.

Guests included Jerzy Skolimowski, a Polish director and playwright who also serves as the president of the 25th SIFF Golden Goblet Award Main Competition jury, Shozo Ichiyama, film selection director of the Tokyo International Festival, and Vivian Qu, the judge of the 25th SIFF Golden Goblet Award Main Competition, who brought the latest production Girls on Wire to the main competition of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.

The year 2025 marks the 130th anniversary of world cinema and the 120th anniversary of Chinese cinema. The festival plans to commemorate these milestones with special screenings and themed exhibitions that blend artistic excellence with popular appeal.

"Every path in filmmaking leads to Shanghai," commented Marco Müller, a jury member for the main competition of the Golden Goblet Awards in 2021. "If you want to connect efficiently with the Chinese film industry, come to SIFF. If you arrive two or three days beforehand, you'll find young audiences lining up to buy tickets in front of cinemas."

Established in 1993 and certified by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations in 1994, the SIFF is currently the only Competitive Feature Film Festival (A-List Festivals) in China.

The 26th SIFF in 2024 received over 3,700 submissions from 105 countries and regions, with 76 percent of Golden Goblet Awards entries being world premieres. More than 460 Chinese and international films were screened across 1,672 screenings during the festival, attracting over 495,000 viewers.

Source：Shanghai Observer, official website of Shanghai International Film Festival