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The Shanghai International Film Festival (Chinese: 上海国际电影节), abbreviated SIFF, one of the largest film festivals in East Asia.^[1]

The SIFF is one of Asia's only two A-list film festival, the other is Tokyo International Film Festival.^[2] The first festival was held from October 7 to 14, 1993, and was held biennially until 2001. In 2003 there was no festival due to the SARS outbreak.^[3]

It awards several "Golden Goblet" Awards (Chinese: 金爵; pinyin: Jin Jue) for best film, best director, best actor/actress, and other categories, as well as a "Special Jury Award."

The 2008 Shanghai International Film Festival was held from June 14-June 22 and was chaired by Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai.

[edit] Golden Cup (Best Film) winners

Year	Film	Director	Country of origin
1993	Hill of No Return	Wang T'ung	Taiwan
1995	Broken Silence	Wolfgang Panzer	Switzerland
1997	The Woodlanders	Phil Agland	United Kingdom
1999	Propaganda	Sinan Cetin	Turkey
2001	Antitrust	Peter Howitt	U.S.
2002	Life Show	Huo Jianqi	China
2004	Tradition of Lover Killing	Khosro Masumi	Iran
2005	Photo Album of the Village	Mitsuhiro Mihara	Japan
2006	Four Minutes	Chris Kraus	Germany
2007	According to Plan	Franzisca Meletzky	Germany
2008	Mukha	Vladimir Kott	Russia
2009	Original	Alexander Brøndsted Antonio Tublen	Sweden/Denmark

[edit] References

^ "Singapore films shine at the 11th Shanghai International Film Festival". Channel News Asia. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainment/view/352942/1/.html. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
^ Chuck Berry. "10 Years Young: The Shanghai International Film Festival". Sense of Cinema. http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/festivals/07/45/shanghai-iff-2007.html. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
^ Jones, Arthur (2004-06-13). "Fest welcomes banned Beijing Acad helmers". Variety. http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=festivals&jump=story&id=1061&articleid=VR1117906348&cs=1&query=%22Shanghai+Film+Festival%22. Retrieved 2008-12-22.

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[0] "Singapore films shine at the 11th Shanghai International Film Festival". Channel News Asia. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainment/view/352942/1/.html. Retrieved 2008-06-11.

[1] Chuck Berry. "10 Years Young: The Shanghai International Film Festival". Sense of Cinema. http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/festivals/07/45/shanghai-iff-2007.html. Retrieved 2008-06-11.

[2] Jones, Arthur (2004-06-13). "Fest welcomes banned Beijing Acad helmers". Variety. http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=festivals&jump=story&id=1061&articleid=VR1117906348&cs=1&query=%22Shanghai+Film+Festival%22. Retrieved 2008-12-22.

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