BJIFF Core Forums
Time: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM, April 24, 2026(Friday)
Venue: T-Field, Langyuan Station, Dongba
Host: Beijing International Film Festival Organizing Committee Organizing Committee of the Beijing International Film Festival·The 33rd College Student Film Festival Beijing Normal University
Organizer: School of Arts and Communication, Beijing Normal University
The Beijing International Film Festival · The 33rd Beijing College Student Film Festival (BCSFF) is a national film festival event hosted by Beijing Normal University, organized by its School of Arts and Communication, and supported by over 40 universities across the country, with the strong backing of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (China Film Administration) and the Ministry of Education.
This year's forum, titled "The Rewriting of Experience and the Reinvention of Genre", is one of the theme forums of the 16th Beijing International Film Festival. The forum focuses on two emerging trends in the works of young filmmakers: a wave of rewriting experience rooted in personal lives, generational memories, and local narratives, alongside genre reinvention practices that reshape and break through existing conventions in suspense, fantasy, action, animation, and other forms.
From the perspectives of artistic creation, genre and subject matter, and industry development, the forum explores new possibilities for expanding the boundaries of contemporary cinema at the intersection of lived experience and genre forms.