 opening ceremony Final winners will be announced during the 16th Golden Rooster and Full Blossom Film Festival, running from October 23 to 28 in the our City Suzhou. The festival is a great event jointly organized by China Literature and Art Federation and China Film Artists Association since 1992, previously known as Hundred Flowers Award by "Popular Film" and Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award evaluation. Back in August 2006, Suzhou and China Film Artists Association signed an agreement on the permanent location of Golden Rooster Award evaluation in Suzhou, and this has a direct bearing on Suzhou being chosen for the site of film festival, decided through the traditional application procedure. For many years, China Film Artists Association has hoped to set up a permanent base for the evaluation of the Golden Rooster Award, the highest award for Chinese films. The name Jinji Lake, literally meaning Golden Rooster Lake, is a happy coincidence that prompted the departments concerned in Suzhou to propose the permanent base by the lake, and the idea was endorsed by China Film Artists Association. International Film The base is preparing to hold China Suzhou Jinji Lake Film Month and other activities, and at appropriate time, to host a thematic international film festival. The base will be ready to receive the evaluation committee members during the 26th China Golden Rooster Film Award in 2007.
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. 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.
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