The 6th Beijing International Film Festival will be held in Beijing from April 16th to April 23rd, the Hollywood star, Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman will attend it, and A Tale of Love and Darkness which is her first film as director will be shown at the festival. It is also the debut of this film in Asia.

　　Natalia Portman has gained high popularity in China, fans of this high IQ female star take delight in talking about her legend, when she’s 13, she had a blockbusting performance in Luc Besson’s Leon, she has taken part in nearly 30 films from then on, including Beautiful Girls, Anywhere But Here, Where the Heart Is, Cold Mountain, Garden State, Closer, V for Vendetta, Knight of Cups, Thor, Thor II, new Star Wars trilogy and so on. In 2011, she got the award of Oscar-winning actress through film Black Swan, and then she attended the French film Planetarium with Lily-Rose Melody Depp, and played the part of Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie. Natalie Portman is hopeful to participate in the next Science fiction film of Alex Garland who is the director of Ex Machina, and she also expressed her great interesting in the biographical film of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

　　Additionally, Portman is adored by her fans since she is an outstanding student with high IQ, on the website Quora, one of the most popular question is “How smart Natalie Portman is?” Many people who know her prove that she is really smart and excellent with their true name. Someone mentioned following things, Natalie Portman was claimed in two papers published in professional journals of science and technology when she was just in the middle school. In addition to English, she can speak Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, German and French. In 2004, she as a Jew went back to her birthplace Jerusalem and learned in the Hebrew university, she still got the first place in her class on her study result there.

　　In addition to being an actress, Portman is also a producer, she is enthusiastic in public welfare and environmental protection. In the last year, Natalia Portman played a new role—director, and her directorial debut A Tale of Love and Darkness will be on show in American cinemas in the second half of this year.

　　A Tale of Love and Darkness is adapted by Israeli writer Amos oz’s award-winning memoir in the same name, Portman produced and directed the film by herself, while acted the main role together with Amir Tessler and Gilad Kahana. This film is based on the background of War-torn Jerusalem after the Second World War, tells a tragic story of a broken family from the perspective of a boy, and describes the turbulence and changes of the world when Israel was born. Portman who was born in Jerusalem Israel said that in those past ten years, she was always emotional on the story A Tale of Love and Darkness, and expected to adapt it into a film. This film will be open in the “Gewara+ Weipiao—Screening in Beijing” unit of this film festival, and this is also the first time to show this film in Asia area.

　　According to the film festival organizing committee, Natalie Portman will appear on the red carpet for the opening ceremony of the 6th Beijing International Film Festival as a director on April 16th. She will attend Sino-Foreign Film Co-production Forum of Beijing International Film Festival as a guest on April 17th, A Tale of Love and Darkness will be shown in China Film Archive at 15:45 on April 17th, Natalie Portman will meet with the fans at the scene after the screening.