Lights, Camera, Paris! Shanghai Film Fest Bridges Cultures

Lights, camera, croissants! This year’s Shanghai International Film Festival isn’t just rolling out red carpets – it’s building cultural bridges between China and France. Celebrating 60 years of Sino-French diplomatic ties, the festival’s French Film Week is serving up cinematic baguettes with modern French stories that’ll make you say ‘ooh la la!’

While Shanghai audiences binge French flicks, CGTN took a ‘Midnight in Paris’-style stroll through the City of Lights. From iconic steps featured in Amélie to hidden alleyways immortalized in indie films, they’re showing how movies turn real-life locations into fantasy playgrounds .

‘Film is the ultimate passport,’ says festival organizer Li Ming*. ‘Through these screens, Shanghai tastes French joie de vivre while sharing our own stories.’ With over 40 Franco-Chinese co-proposals in development, this cultural exchange could birth the next Hero meets La Haine collab!

*Name changed for privacy

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We Talk: Let's embark on a 'cinematic stroll' in Paris

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