What to watch
During the TV festival, more than 80 recent and acclaimed shows will be screened on the Documentary Channel, Art Channel, Entertainment Channel and ICS. They include dramas, documentaries, animations and other films.
Among more than 1,000 entries, 48 productions have been nominated for the TV festival's Magnolia awards in TV film, documentary, drama and animation.
They include the mainland drama "Beijing Youths" about a group of young people and their love, friendship and coming of age.
The German nature documentary "The Green Universe" and British animation "Room on the Broom," based on a children's picture book, will be screened.
The five-day event includes the Shanghai Student Television Festival screening short videos by college students, the international film and TV marketing and animation pitch, and TV forums about challenges and opportunities in China's TV industry.
At the film festival, around 300 Chinese and foreign films will be screened. The opening film will be "Monsters University," a new 3D animated comedy produced by Pixar Animation Studios.
Films to be screened will include a range of genres.
People visit the 19th Shanghai TV Festival in Shanghai, east China, June 12, 2013. The ongoing TV festival here will last until June 14, which attracted nearly 400 foreign participants like Warner Bros, ITV and Beta Film. [Xinhua/Chen Fei]
Representative works of Olive Stone, Tom Hooper, Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu and Chinese director Tang Xiaodan will be screened. They include seven of Stone's films, including the award-winning "Platoon" (1986), "Wall Street" (1987) and "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989).
Suspense film fans can watch nine early and rarely screened silent films by British master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock.
The films have been restored and will be shown in Asia for the first time, some with live music.
All were filmed between 1925 and 1929, and demonstrate the evolution of Hitchcock's suspense style. They include his directorial debut "The Pleasure Garden," as well as "The Lodger," "The Ring," "Downhill," "The Farmer's Wife," "Easy Virtue," "Champagne," "The Manxman" and "Blackmail."
"Blackmail" was later re-shot by Hitchcock to include some snippets of dialogue.
It was the first sound film screened in the UK.
Additionally, nine films starring the late Hong Kong actor Leslie Cheung will be shown, including "Farewell, My Concubine," "Days of Being Wild" and "Rouge."
Acclaimed works to be screened include Kim Ki-duk's "Pieta," last year's Golden Lion winner, the Bertolucci film "Me and You," independent British thriller "Berberian Sound Studio," and India's Oscar-nominated film "Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India."
The recent films are from Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Thailand and other countries.
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