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International Student Film Festival of the Beijing Film Academy
This year’s festival lineup includes works drawn from an applicant pool spread over 40 countries, and will even show one or two feature films. Each film showing will include a Q&A session, allowing audience members to question the filmmakers, who are all flown into Beijing to be on hand for the event, in an informal setting. The festival organizers and committee members include renowned filmmakers (and BFA graduates) like Tian Zhuangzhuang (The Blue Kite, The Horse Thief) and Xie Fei (Girl from Hunan, the leading filmmaker of the Fourth Generation). It’s also rumored that Jia Zhangke and Zhang Yimou might participate in the judging and awarding of certain films. The BFA International Student Film Festival runs from Nov 9-15 at the Beijing Film Academy. Tickets are RMB 3 and are available at BFA. See the official site for more details and a detailed schedule.