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The 13th Beijing International Film Festival will be held from Apr 22 to 29 in Beijing, China.
Chinese director Zhang Yimou would be jury president for this year's Tiantan Award.
Director Lu Chuan's latest directorial work,?Beijing 2022, which was selected as the opening film of the recently concluded 13th Beijing International Film Festival, is scheduled to hit domestic theaters on May 19.
Despite China's movie market having once been chased by investors around five or six years ago, the industry is now facing greater stress to raise production fees after struggling from the pandemic, said some insiders during the recently concluded 13th Beijing International Film Festival.
For the first time in the 13-year history of the annual Beijing International Film Festival, two outstanding actresses - Antonia Zegers from Chile and Line Renaud in France - jointly received the Tiantan Award for Best Leading Actress, one of the ceremony's most highly regarded honors.
Despite sudden heavy rain and hail in northern Beijing's Huairou district, stars braved the elements to walk the red carpet of the closing ceremony of the 13th Beijing International Film Festival on April 28.
For Shen Shanshan, 38, April is the "most important time of the year" as she is enjoying the annual Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF) despite her busy life.
