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.
Cinephiles in seven Chinese cities including Beijing, Guangdong, Chengdu and Wuhan, are in for a treat in the form of eight new French feature films brought by the 19th French Film Panorama in the upcoming two months.
Since the production of China's first-ever film, Dingjun Mountain, in 1905, domestic cinema has seen a century of change and been marked by a constant trait of absorbing inspiration and experiences from different civilizations.
