The much-anticipated "Beijing Film Panorama" of the 10th Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF) opened today!

　　The Works and Days, the first film to be screened at the China Film Archive (CFA), was sold out soon after ticketing started. Many fans came early and some even came with cushions and blankets, ready for an 8-hour real test in the cinema.

Fans queue to enter

　　The Works and Days, the first film to be screened in the "Beijing Film Panorama", was awarded in the Encounters Competition at the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival. Prepared and shot for years, the 5-chapter 520-minute film, combining fiction and documentary style, is a description of a farmwife in a village of 47 inhabitants in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture.

　　The curatorial team arranged the film in the "Outlook" section as the first to be screened in the "Beijing Film Panorama" this year, in the hope of offering the audience a rare viewing experience of an art film during the festival. A fan said jokingly it is a real working day with the inclusion of breaks and lunch time for them to watch the film.

　　Prior to the screening, Li Xun, a senior research fellow of the China Film Art Research Center and Sha Dan, the curator of the "Beijing Film Panorama" introduced the film.

　　Li spoke highly of the enthusiasm of Beijing's fans, because the film is a real test whether in duration or in subject. He introduced the origin of film shooting, the director's creative idea, the narrative style of the film and its unique soundscape design.

　　The Works and Days is an art film needing patience and thought. It is suitable to be the opening film of the "Beijing Film Panorama" of the 10th BJIFF.

　　The one-week "Beijing Film Panorama" is about to open in Beijing's 19 cinemas and over 100 domestic and foreign works will hit the screen.

　　Tomorrow afternoon the opening ceremony of the domestic session of the "Beijing Film Panorama" will first be staged at CFA. At the ceremony, director Da Peng will talk about his new film The Reunions in a special way; director Zhang Guodong will meet the audience with his outstanding kid film Young Sangye at Beijing Hoyts Cinema, Hopson One after its screening. Sold-out masterpieces like War and Peace, The Matrix trilogy and Apocalypse Now will set off a viewing fever at this weekend.

　　At the 10th anniversary of the BJIFF, let's indulge ourselves in films after a long separation from cinemas!