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! 🤝🎞️
