The moviegoers wait for the Beijing Film Panorama for long until all the flowers have been in bloom.

　　The 10th Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF) Beijing Film Panorama finally started to sell tickets at 12:00 p.m. on August 19!

　　In order to watch a favorite movie, the moviegoers have once again refreshed their own ticket-grabbing record. Thanks to the moviegoers adding fuel to the flames, the tickets to this year’s hits were sold out in a split second!

　　In the face of the seats marked in red in a flash on the ticketing interface, countless movie fans lifted up their eyes and sighed, heart-broken! They had to split their time between communities of movie buffs for ticket transfer.

　　What a terribly hard thing ticket-grabbing is for them.

　　Here, let’s review the sales of tickets for the BJIFF Beijing Film Panorama:

　　Within just 10 minutes right after ticketing, 72% of the tickets have been sold out.

　　The TOP10 movies with tickets sold out at the top speed are:

　　Like the Dyer’s Hand, Talking the Pictures, Akira, War and Peace, Wet Season, Cinema Paradiso, The Elephant Man, The Matrix trilogy, Apocalypse Now, All About ING

　　Among them, the tickets to the classics including Cinema Paradiso, Akira, and The Matrix trilogy were sold out as soon as the ticketing started. Those to the home-made masterpieces such as Like the Dyer’s Hand and All About ING were also very much in demand and sold out very early, a true testament to the fact that various genres of films have their strong support from the audience and the preferences of movie fans are very diverse.

　　Experts know whether they have it or not as soon as they start. Facing the highly popular films among those for the Beijing Film Panorama, the movie fans grab the tickets just like swordsmen, with no mercy. In just a few minutes, they felt like they are a world away.

　　In the “Restored Classics” section, a long-time highlight of the Beijing Film Panorama, the 4K restorations of Apocalypse Now, War and Peace, and The Elephant Man easily advanced into the top ten hot-button issues, which serves to show how powerful the classics are. The moviegoers who can grab the tickets are really blessed by the god of movies.

　　The tickets to the works of film masters are also hard to find at the Beijing Film Panorama. With his strong creative ability, the master ?ric Rohmer in French New Wave cinema is empowered with one standalone out-of-competition section—“The Films of ?ric Rohmer” this year, which covers many of his classic works. It is nothing else but the spring of the fans of ?ric Rohmer. The tickets to his six films The Collector, Chloe in the Afternoon, The Green Ray, My Night at Maud's, Claire’s Knee and Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle have all been sold out, indicating that they are very popular.

　　The Truth, a most recent directorial film of the Golden Palm winner Hirokazu Koreeda, has also seen a ticketing at an amazing pace. This good-natured director always seems to be able to trigger a roaring ticket-grabbing situation. This kind of contrast is really fantastic.

　　The “Hit IMAX Theatres” and “Franchises” sections are the other two features. The moment the screening schedule came out, the two sections were locked up by many movie fans, presenting an air of being hell-bent on winning. 

　　It is fair to say the appeal of the Akira and Forrest Gump IMAX releases to the movie fans can break through the limit. Nothing can please them more than super classic movies + world-class audio-visual experience. The record of movie tickets sold out in a second really does justice to everything!

　　As for the science fiction masterpiece The Matrix trilogy, its tickets are also sold out quickly. It is lucky for a movie fan to be able to buy the ticket to one installment of the franchise. Those movie fans who can grab the tickets to all of the three installments, they are supposedly the chosen ones.

　　The “Global View" section also saw a high popularity. This section brings together high-reputation films from various regions abroad in the period between 2019 and 2020, including new films of renowned directors as well as great films of competent directors. The seats for Roman Polanski’s An Officer and a Spy intertwined with fiction and non-fiction were all marked in red on the ticketing interface, and the tickets to Woody Allen’s new romantic comedy film A Rainy Day in New York was quickly sold out as well.

　　At present, the tickets to the majority of the screenings have been sold out, along with a small number of tickets to The Traitor, Only You Alone, Honeyland, The Tree House, Cunningham (3D), Proxima, Schoolgirls and other films left. So, those who want to watch the movie should seize the day!

　　Anyhow, it is really a pity for those moviegoers who fail to grab the ticket to see so many great films slip away instantly.

　　However, those moviegoers when grabbing the tickets at a slower pace do not need to regret it because you still have a chance! Afterwards, there will be a second round of ticketing and Outdoor Screenings reservations for the Beijing Film Panorama. By that moment, come and compete again for a showdown.

　　You can finally have your cake and take it! We wish everyone can watch the movie you are looking forward to!