{"id":2298,"date":"2026-06-23T07:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2026-06-23T07:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:35:44","slug":"shanghai-three-things-we-learned-from-the-2026-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2298","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai: Three Things We Learned From the 2026 Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong>An Open Embrace of AI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tYou didn\u2019t have to wait long to hear or learn about artificial intelligence (AI) at this year\u2019s Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) \u2014 the topic was tackled at the opening press conference for festival jurors, and then kept raising its head at panels, no matter what the focus was really supposed to be.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2297\">Diane Warren Pays Tribute to Clive Davis: \u201cWe Lost the Greatest Music Man of All Time Today\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tSIFF itself embraced the phenomenon, with its AI Backlot initiative showcasing the technology\u2019s uses via filmmaking projects that played out in front of festivalgoers in real time. You could learn first-hand what AI is all about, in terms of filmmaking, and then perhaps make your own decision about whether its impact is good or bad for the industry and for creativity in general.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThere were varied opinions shared by those in the know \u2014 the \u201cCultural Value and Future Possibilities of Animation\u201d panel\u2019s reactions were of particular interest simply because animation is the industry that is either currently most under threat or that stands to benefit the most from AI. \u201cPerhaps one day it will be omnipotent, a grand model,\u201d said Yu Shui, director of the Chinese hit <em>Nobody<\/em>. \u201cBut it\u2019s precisely because we are small models, imperfect, that we experience human emotions like joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness. The grand model has no desires, and therefore no emotions. Without emotions, there is no origin of art. Art, in essence, is born from human pain and joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTo the casual outside observer, it might seem that China is rushing headlong into the AI era \u2014 after all, the claim is the AI industry here is already worth around $174 billion \u2014 but it would be a mistake to think concerns aren\u2019t shared across the globe. They were at the center of a fascinating debate between Enlight Media chairman Wang Changtian (<em>Ne Zha 2<\/em>) and philosopher Liu Qing at a session titled \u201cWhen AI Learns to Create, What Grounds Cinema.\u201d Wang explained how Enlight had explored AI but found it wanting \u2014 \u201cIt could just not meet our standards,\u201d he said \u2014 and added that he had faith in human creativity. \u201cAudiences respond to the most talented work, and the most talented people. If, in the future, we are all using AI, then the most talented people will also lead the way, it won\u2019t be the AI leading the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Backing the Newcomers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tSaturday night\u2019s Golden Goblet awards quickly turned into a celebration both of young filmmakers and of SIFF\u2019s support for them down through the years, through its various production initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt was a brave choice by Tony Leung Chiu-wai and his jury to award the top prize to a first-timer in Zhong Kaifeng, with his debut feature <em>Atlantic Rhapsody<\/em>. But unearthing rising talent is what SIFF is all about \u2014 and a great insight into just how that actually works was provided by another first-timer in Gong Yiwen. Her debut feature <em>Her First Taste<\/em> \u2014 a wonderfully rich look at a young girl\u2019s coming of age \u2014 won the top Asian New Talent prize, along with the Best Actress award for the impressive Ma Fufu in her first role.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2295\">China Lion Takes Feng Xiaogang\u2019s \u2018I Know Who You Are\u2019 for North America<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Her First Taste<\/em> came through the SIFF Project pre-production initiative and before the awards Gong revealed just how important that experience was, in terms of the mentors she pitched the production to giving her the courage to see her filmmaking dreams through to fruition. \u201cI think my very personal stories touched some directors\u2019 hearts and they give me very encouraging words,\u201d said the director. \u201cThey said, maybe I should keep exploring this kind of personal style of film, and they really encouraged me to keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>A Love of Cinema, Undimmed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tOf course, Shanghai is mostly about the one thing that really matters \u2014 film fans. And this year\u2019s edition rolled out an impressive line-up of around 420 movies from across the globe. Jury head Tony Leung Chiu-wai talked about the importance of educating young Chinese cinemagoers, of showing them a diverse selection of films \u2014 far beyond simple blockbusters \u2014 and thereby exciting them about cinema.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSIFF\u2019s retrospectives always seem to do just that, and beneath all the doom and gloom about falling box office figures, or the threat of short-form dramas to movies, or how \u201ckids today\u201d have no attention span, we found a ray of hope for the future at a mid-afternoon screening of John Huston\u2019s <em>The Misfits<\/em> from 1961, as Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe offer the world what were arguably their career-best performances, sadly so shortly before both stars died.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOnce the credits ended, you could feel the audience inside the majestic Wanping Theater draw breath as one, and a 20-something attendee turned around and said, simply: \u201cThat was amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2293\">Can Brands\u2019 Cultural Impact Be Measured? 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