Film Connects Us Across Borders: 2024 Beijing Film Night - BJIFF Promotion Conference in Hanoi Held Successfully
On November 10, 2024, the 2024 Beijing Film Night - BJIFF Promotion Conference in Hanoi was held successfully, at the time of the Seventh Hanoi International Film Festival.
Red Carpet Scene of the Promotion Conference
As a close neighborhood who shares a long history of friendly relations with us, Vietnam has increased people-to-people exchanges and strengthened our cooperation in filming over recent years. The BJIFF, featured by artistic inclusiveness, has become a splendid stage for great films to showcase themselves, and this event plays a critical role for further communication and cooperation of both sides.
There was an array of institutions and filmmakers attending the conference, including the Embassy of China in Hanoi, the China Cultural Center in Hanoi, the Vietnam - China Friendship Association, The UNESCO Association of Hanoi, the Cultural and Scientific Center of the Temple Of Literature, and the Vietnam Tea Association.
A short promotional film of the 2024 BJIFF was played during the conference, allowing everyone at the site to enjoy the feast of films in the combination of touching and excellent film clips.
Zheng Dawei, the Counsellor of the Embassy of China in Hanoi, expressed in his speech that Chinese films and TV works introduced into Vietnam have become hit shows during the leisure time of the Vietnamese people, enabling the people from two countries to share our cultures and know each other better. The year 2025 marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Vietnam, and it is also the China-Vietnam Year of People-to-People Exchanges. Over the past years, Both China and Vietnam have been conducting communications and exchanges between our people and cultures, securing numerous achievements and building a bridge for mutual learning between civilizations. By taking the opportunity of the 2024 Beijing Film Night - BJIFF Promotion Conference, the BJIFF kindly invites the Vietnamese filmmakers to bring more of them to participate in the BJIFF with their films, and join hands with their Chinese counterparts to write a story of cooperation in films.
Zheng Dawei, the Counsellor of the Embassy of China in Hanoi
In his remarks, the Deputy Secretary-General of the BJIFF Organizing Committee Li Xiaoming said that films could connect our minds with the whole world, and we are pleased to see that BJIFF has grown itself with increasing influences and there have are more and more excellent films of various cinematic genres and styles being shown in the BJIFF. We are looking forward to see further cooperation of filmmakers from both countries delivering beautiful and marvelous stories to the global audience, and we want to take this opportunity of holding the 2024 Beijing Film Night - BJIFF Promotion Conference to deepen our cooperation in film industry and make more contributions to the friendship of the two peoples.
Li Xiaoming, Deputy Secretary-General of the BJIFF Organizing Committee
The successful holding of the 2024 Beijing Film Night - BJIFF Promotion Conference has built a bridge of films to connect Beijing with the global filming industry. The BJIFF, with its goal of being energetic and everlasting, is sending out invitation to the whole world. We believe that through the cooperation of filmmakers of both countries in utmost enthusiasm and sincerity toward win-win results, there will be more touching stories on the screen and more new forces with greater strides in the film industry.
The scene of the promotion conference