Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) was founded in 1993. In 1994, the festival was accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers' Associations (FIAPF), becoming the first and only non-specialized competitive international film festival in China — i.e., a Category A international film festival.

Amores Perros (4K)

June 16, 2000 | Mexico | 155 min
Screening: June 13, 2026, 10:00
Original audio + Chinese and English bilingual subtitles

Synopsis
Three stories connected by dogs, three lives of regret. Octavio (Gael García Bernal) lives with his mother, brother, and sister-in-law. He falls in love with his brother's wife Susana and enters his dog "Cofi" in underground dogfights to earn money for their escape. After his brother leaves with Susana and the money, Octavio fights one last match, crashes his car, and collides with model Valeria. Her career is shattered, and her dog falls beneath the floorboards, driving her to despair. Meanwhile, a homeless man named Martín finds Cofi at the crash site — a former guerrilla fighter turned hitman who still longs for his daughter's forgiveness.

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu

Cast Gael García Bernal, Emilio Echevarría, Jorge Salinas, Adriana Barraza

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The Searchers (4K)

May 16, 1956 | USA | 119 min
Screening: June 13, 2026, 13:00
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
After the Civil War, veteran Ethan Edwards returns to Texas to find his brother's family massacred by Comanches and his niece Debbie taken. Accompanied by his adopted nephew Martin, he embarks on a five-year search. But Ethan's deep hatred for Native Americans leads Martin to question whether his uncle intends to save Debbie — or kill her.

Director John Ford

Cast John Wayne as Ethan Edwards, Jeffrey Hunter as Martin Pawley, Vera Miles as Laurie Jorgensen, Ward Bond as Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton

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The Double

April 4, 2014 | UK | 93 min
Screening: June 13, 2026, 20:40
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
Directed and written by Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd, Submarine), based on Dostoevsky's novella. A timid office worker (Jesse Eisenberg) discovers his life has been invaded by a doppelgänger — identical in appearance but completely different in personality. As his world unravels, he descends into madness.

Director Richard Ayoade

Cast Jesse Eisenberg as Simon / James, Mia Wasikowska as Hannah, Sally Hawkins as Receptionist at Ball, Chris O'Dowd as Nurse

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A Few Good Men (4K)

December 11, 1992 | USA | 138 min
Screening: June 14, 2026, 15:30
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
Navy lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee is assigned to defend two Marines accused of murder. As he investigates, he uncovers a code of conduct called "Code Red" — a sanctioned violent hazing. In a dramatic courtroom showdown, Kaffee forces Colonel Jessup to confess the truth.

Director Rob Reiner

Cast Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland

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Girl with a Pearl Earring

September 7, 2003 | UK | 97 min
Screening: June 14, 2026, 18:30
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
A poor young woman, Griet (Scarlett Johansson), becomes a maid in the home of painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth). As she assists in his studio, an intimacy develops between them. She becomes the subject of his famous painting, sacrificing herself to wear his wife's pearl earring.

Director Peter Webber

Cast Colin Firth as Johannes Vermeer, Scarlett Johansson as Griet, Tom Wilkinson as Pieter Van Ruijven, Judy Parfitt as Maria Thins

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The Weed Eaters (4K)

August 2, 2025 | New Zealand | 81 min
Screening: June 14, 2026, 20:40
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
Four friends on vacation discover a miraculous herb, triggering the wildest hunger frenzy in history.

Director Callum Devlin

Cast Alice May Connolly, Annabel Kean, Samuel Austin, Finnius Teppett

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Out of Africa (4K)

December 10, 1985 | USA | 161 min
Screening: June 15, 2026, 12:00
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
Based on Karen Blixen's memoir (written under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen). A Danish baroness (Meryl Streep) runs a coffee plantation in Kenya, where she has a passionate love affair with the free-spirited big-game hunter Denys (Robert Redford).

Director Sydney Pollack

Cast Meryl Streep as Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen, Robert Redford as Denys George Finch Hatton, Klaus Maria Brandauer as Baron Bror Blixen / Baron Hans Blixen, Michael Kitchen as Berkeley Cole

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Father Mother Sister Brother (4K)

December 24, 2025 | USA | 111 min
Screening: June 15, 2026, 15:30
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
A poetic triptych set in New Jersey, Dublin, and Paris. Jim Jarmusch's signature minimalist aesthetic and deadpan humor return, exploring the intricate and unsaid tensions within family life — and the silent reconciliations that follow.

Director Jim Jarmusch

Cast Cate Blanchett as Timothea, Adam Driver as Jeff, Charlotte Rampling as Mother, Vicky Krieps as Lilith

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Panic Room (4K)

March 29, 2002 | USA | 112 min
Screening: June 15, 2026, 18:00
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
Recently divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her daughter move into a New York townhouse with a hidden panic room — a steel-reinforced safe room with surveillance monitors. When three intruders break in searching for a fortune hidden inside, Meg and her daughter lock themselves in the panic room and must outwit the intruders to survive.

Director David Fincher

Cast Jodie Foster as Meg Altman, Kristen Stewart as Sarah Altman, Forest Whitaker as Burnham, Dwight Yoakam as Raoul

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The Apartment (4K)

June 15, 1960 | USA | 126 min
Screening: June 16, 2026, 15:30
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is a lonely office worker who lends his apartment to company executives for their extramarital affairs. He hopes to climb the corporate ladder — but falls for Fran (Shirley MacLaine), the elevator girl who is secretly the mistress of his boss. When Fran attempts suicide in his apartment, Baxter must choose between ambition and love.

Director Billy Wilder

Cast Jack Lemmon as C.C. "Bud" Baxter, Shirley MacLaine as Fran Kubelik, Fred MacMurray as Jeff D. Sheldrake, Ray Walston as Joe Dobisch

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Children of Paradise

1945 | France | 190 min
Screening: June 16, 2026, 18:30
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
On the bustling streets of Paris, the beautiful Garance meets three men: the mime Baptiste, the actor Frédérick, and the criminal Lacenaire. Over the years, their loves and rivalries intertwine with the theater, crime, and fate.

Director Marcel Carné

Cast Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Maria Casarès

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Family Life

October 2, 1971 | UK | 109 min
Screening: June 17, 2026, 13:00
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
A young woman, Janice, is found catatonic in a subway station. Her parents blame her hippie friends and past abortion. She is subjected to electroconvulsive therapy, grows increasingly violent, and eventually becomes a mute case study on a medical lectern. A stark critique of psychiatric "care" and family cruelty.

Director Ken Loach

Cast Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean, Malcolm Tierney, David Markham

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Nuremberg (4K)

September 7, 2025 | Toronto International Film Festival | 149 min
Screening: June 17, 2026, 15:30
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
Chief prosecutor Robert H. Jackson (Michael Shannon) leads the Allies' case against Nazi leadership at the Nuremberg trials. Meanwhile, an American Army psychiatrist (Rami Malek) engages in a tense psychological duel with Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe).

Director James Vanderbilt

Cast Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring, Rami Malek as Douglas Kelley, Leo Woodall as Sgt. Howie Triest, Michael Shannon as Robert H. Jackson

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Rope (4K)

August 28, 1948 | USA | 81 min
Screening: June 17, 2026, 18:30
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
Two wealthy Harvard students (John Dall, Farley Granger) strangle a classmate just to prove they can commit the perfect murder. They hide the body in a chest and host a dinner party on top of it — inviting the victim's family, fiancée, and their former professor (James Stewart), who slowly begins to suspect.

Director Alfred Hitchcock

Cast John Dall as Brandon Shaw, Farley Granger as Phillip Morgan, James Stewart as Rupert Cadell, Cedric Hardwicke as Mr. Kentley

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Annie Hall (4K)

April 20, 1977 | USA | 94 min
Screening: June 18, 2026, 13:00
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
Neurotic comedian Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) reflects on his relationship with the quirky, aspiring singer Annie Hall (Diane Keaton). A masterful deconstruction of the romantic comedy through self-mocking wit.

Director Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen as Alvy Singer, Diane Keaton as Annie Hall, Shelley Duvall as Pam, Paul Simon as Tony Lacey

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The Misfits (4K)

February 1, 1961 | USA | 125 min
Screening: June 18, 2026, 15:30
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
Newly divorced Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe) arrives in Reno and falls in with three drifters: aging cowboy Gay (Clark Gable), mechanic Guido, and damaged young rodeo rider Perce (Montgomery Clift). Together, they chase wild horses across the Nevada desert — a haunting elegy for the American West and for lives adrift.

Director John Huston

Cast Clark Gable as Gay Langland, Marilyn Monroe as Roslyn Taber, Montgomery Clift as Perce Howland, Eli Wallach as Guido

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When Harry Met Sally... (4K)

July 21, 1989 | USA | 96 min
Screening: June 18, 2026, 18:30
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) share a drive from Chicago to New York, arguing whether men and women can ever be just friends. They meet again over the next decade — through relationships, breakups, and divorce — until they finally confront the question: has friendship become love?

Director Rob Reiner

Cast Meg Ryan as Sally Albright, Billy Crystal as Harry Burns, Carrie Fisher as Marie, Bruno Kirby as Jess

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Leaving Las Vegas (4K)

October 27, 1995 | 113 min
Screening: June 18, 2026, 20:40
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
Ben (Nicolas Cage), a suicidal alcoholic screenwriter, moves to Las Vegas to drink himself to death. He meets Sera (Elisabeth Shue), a kind prostitute trapped by her pimp. They move in together under a stark agreement: she will not ask him to stop drinking. A devastating love story between two broken people.

Director Mike Figgis

Cast Nicolas Cage, Julian Sands, Elisabeth Shue, Richard J. Lewis

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A Generation

January 26, 1955 | Poland | 89 min
Screening: June 19, 2026, 13:00
Original audio + Chinese and English bilingual subtitles

Synopsis
In German-occupied Poland, a young man named Stach joins the underground resistance, falling in love with the beautiful leader Dorota. As he matures through dangerous missions and the arrest of Dorota, he learns what it means to bear responsibility for others.

Director Andrzej Wajda

Cast Tadeusz Łomnicki as Stach Mazur, Urszula Modrzyńska as Dorota, Tadeusz Janczar as Jasio Krone, Janusz Paluszkiewicz as Sekuła

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Kanal

April 20, 1957 | Poland | 97 min
Screening: June 19, 2026, 15:30
Original audio + Chinese and English bilingual subtitles

Synopsis
September 1944, the final days of the Warsaw Uprising. A company of Home Army soldiers retreats into the city's sewers to escape the Germans. Lost, poisoned, and starving, they wander through the dark tunnels — each losing their grip on sanity and humanity.

Director Andrzej Wajda

Cast Teresa Iżewska as Stokrotka, Tadeusz Janczar as Ens. Jacek Korab, Wienczysław Gliński as Lt. "Zadra", Tadeusz Gwiazdowski as Sgt. "Kula"

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Ashes and Diamonds

October 3, 1958 | Poland | 104 min
Screening: June 19, 2026, 18:30
Original audio + Chinese and English bilingual subtitles

Synopsis
On the last day of WWII, a young right-wing resistance fighter, Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski, "the Polish James Dean"), is ordered to assassinate a Communist official. But when he falls for a barmaid, Krystyna, he begins to question his mission. Wajda's masterpiece ends the War Trilogy with fireworks over a corpse in a landfill.

Director Andrzej Wajda

Cast Zbigniew Cybulski as Maciek Chełmicki, Ewa Krzyżewska as Krystyna, Wacław Zastrzeżyński as Szczuka, Adam Pawlikowski as Andrzej

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Enemy

March 14, 2014 | USA | 91 min
Screening: June 19, 2026, 20:40
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
Adam (Jake Gyllenhaal), a history teacher, discovers his exact double: Anthony, a minor actor. As they circle each other's lives, reality fragments into a nightmare of doppelgängers and spiders. Is one a hallucination?

Director Denis Villeneuve

Cast Jake Gyllenhaal as Adam Bell / Anthony St. Claire, Mélanie Laurent as Mary, Sarah Gadon as Helen, Isabella Rossellini as Adam's mother

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Innocent Sorcerers

December 17, 1960 | 88 min
Screening: June 20, 2026, 13:00
Original audio + Chinese and English bilingual subtitles

Synopsis
A young doctor tired of being pursued by women. One night, a girl breaks into his room. They connect — but when he steps out, she disappears. He frantically searches the entire city, only to find she has returned on her own.

Director Andrzej Wajda

Cast Roman Polański, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Jerzy Skolimowski, Krzysztof Komeda

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The Promised Land

February 21, 1975 | Poland | 170 min
Screening: June 20, 2026, 15:00
Original audio + Chinese and English bilingual subtitles

Synopsis
Adapted from Nobel laureate Władysław Reymont's novel. Three friends — a Pole, a Jew, and a German — join forces to build a textile factory in industrial-era Łódź, pursuing wealth at any cost, betraying friends and lovers along the way.

Director Andrzej Wajda

Cast Daniel Olbrychski as Karol Borowiecki, Wojciech Pszoniak as Moryc Welt, Andrzej Seweryn as Maks Baum, Kalina Jędrusik as Lucy Zuckerowa

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Everything for Sale

January 28, 1969 | 100 min
Screening: June 20, 2026, 18:30
Original audio + Chinese and English bilingual subtitles

Synopsis
A film about to start shooting has lost its lead actor. Friends search for him, the director searches for him, his wife searches for him — he has been missing for six days. Just as everyone is looking, news arrives of his sudden death. An absurd situation grinds to a halt.

Director Andrzej Wajda

Cast Bogumił Kobiela, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Adam Pawlikowski, Daniel Olbrychski

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The Lost Weekend

November 16, 1945 | UK | 101 min
Screening: June 21, 2026, 15:30
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
Writer Don Birnam is dragged into the abyss by his alcohol addiction over just a few days. He was supposed to leave New York with his brother for a fresh start — but hides a bottle instead, and the entire weekend spirals out of control. His lover Helen tries to save him, but Don sinks deeper into hallucinations, shame, and self-loathing.

Director Billy Wilder

Cast Ray Milland as Don Birnam, Jane Wyman as Helen St. James, Phillip Terry as Wick Birnam, Howard Da Silva as Nat

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Jean de Florette (4K)

August 27, 1986 | France | 122 min
Screening: June 21, 2026, 18:00
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
In southern France, farmer César Soubeyran and his nephew Ugolin scheme to acquire a neighboring farm. When the heir, Jean de Florette (Gérard Depardieu), arrives from the city, they secretly block his land's water source. Jean's crops fail, his animals die, and he succumbs to despair — leaving his wife and daughter behind. But the story is far from over.

Director Claude Berri

Cast Gérard Depardieu as Jean de Florette, Yves Montand as César Soubeyran, Daniel Auteuil as Ugolin, Elisabeth Depardieu as Aimée

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Manon of the Spring (4K)

November 19, 1986 | France | 114 min
Screening: June 21, 2026, 20:40
Original audio + Chinese subtitles

Synopsis
Years after her father Jean was destroyed by César and Ugolin, Manon has become a shepherdess in the hills. Ugolin falls desperately in love with her, but Manon has discovered the truth about her father's death. She blocks the village's water source, and during a church procession, exposes the murderers before the entire community.

Director Claude Berri

Cast Emmanuelle Béart as Manon, Yves Montand as César Soubeyran, Daniel Auteuil as Ugolin, Hippolyte Girardot as Bernard Olivier