Silk Road International Film Festival

COVID 19 Update: We are moving forward with plans for a physical festival in Xi'an, October 12-17, 2020. In case of quarantine restrictions the festival will be held online. ************************************************************* The Silk Road International Film Festival (SRIFF) was founded by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television in 2014 to comprehensively implement China’s national strategy of The Belt and Road Initiative. It aims to promote cultural exchanges and cooperation among countries along The Belt and Road routes and to further develop the Chinese audiovisual industry. SRIFF is held annually (alternating every year between the cities of Xi’an and Fuzhou) and is co-sponsored by the Shaanxi Provincial People’s Government and Fujian Provincial People’s Government. It is the third comprehensive international film festival established in China after the Shanghai IFF and the Beijing IFF. SRIFF is divided into the following sections and a mutable number of special presentations: Competition, Film Panorama, Film Forum, Film Market, Interactive Activities. The previous editions of the festival have been hugely successful and have led to SRIFF becoming a point of reference in the Asian film festivals circuit. A total of 987 films from more than 60 countries were screened in cinemas, with a total of 4100 screenings reaching more than 830000 audience. Nearly 6000 filmmakers from more than 55 countries have taken part to the festival, including Sophie Marceau, Jacques Behan, Luc Besson, Renny Harlin, Jackie Chan, Chen Kaige and Jiang Wen. More than 3,400 reporters from nearly 600 media outlets from China and abroad took part in the publicity and reporting of the festival, including China Central Television, People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, BBC, and other well-known international media outlets.