Beijing Independant Film Festival
The Beijing Independent Film Festival, sponsored by the Li Xianting Film Fund, will kick off this Saturday in the Songzhuang suburb of Beijing, running from August 18-26. With over 100 feature and short films in the program, the festival’s lineup far exceeds those of previous years. It also marks a remarkable turnaround from the difficulties encountered last year’s events sponsored by the Li Xianting Film Fund, when both the Beijing Independent Documentary Festival and the Beijing Independent Film Festival operated tenuously under threat of shutdown. This year’s Beijing Independent Film Festival effectively combines those two events: the official program announcement lists the BIFF in its ninth year, when in fact its namesake had only been running for six years, while last year’s Documentary Festival would have been its eighth edition.
The festival program is organized into sections for Fiction, Documentaries (including Competition entries and special screenings), and Experimental Films. The festival opens with Huang Ji’s Egg and Stone, which won the Tiger award at this year’s Rotterdam International Film Festival, and closes with Oh the San Xia, a documentary by Wang Libo.
To our knowledge the festival schedule is currently unavailable online.
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