Shanghai Film Festival Articles

Yuthlert Sippapak's Friday Killer Turkish Drama HAYDE BRE: Best Film at Shanghai Film Festival 2011 Award for Best Feature Film  HAYDE BRE (Turkey) directed by Orhan Oguz What attracted to us was its stark, honest, unflinching look at a mother dealing with a modern world and her separation from her rural background, a woman caught up in a changing world and the painful struggle she [...]

Orhan Oguz's Hayde Bre Orhan Oguz's Turkish drama Hayde Bre won the Golden Goblet for Best Feature Film at the 2011 Shanghai International Film Festival. [List of Shanghai Film Festival winners.] The Shanghai Film Festival's Official Competition jury led by Barry Levinson wrote the following in a statement about Hayde Bre: What attracted to us was its stark, honest, unflinching look at a mother dealing [...]

Gong Li, John Cusack, Shanghai Golden Horse winner Feng Xiaogang (right), among whose credits are A World Without Thieves, Assembly, and If You Are the One, called US mogul Harvey Weinstein "a cheater in the eyes of many Chinese moviemakers," according to Jonathan Landreth at The Hollywood Reporter. Feng voiced his criticism at a discussion held at the 2010 Shanghai International Film Festival. Weinstein wasn't [...]

2009 Shanghai Film Festival Awards 2009 Shanghai Film Festival: June 13-21   Antonio Tublén and Alexander Brøndsted's Original tells the story of Henry (best actor winner Sverrir Gudnason), a man who has always tried to be what others expected of him. However, after being invited by a friend to open a restaurant in Spain, Henry must finally decide to become his own unique, original self. [...]