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is the 11th such festival devoted to international cinema to be held in Shanghai, China. It was held from June 14–22, 2008. Hong Kong film director

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was the head of jury at this year's film festival along with other jury members such as Chinese-American actress

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, legendary Danish director

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and Israeli stage actress

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. The competition lineup included films from China, Europe, Japan, Argentina, South Korea, Lithuania, Russia, the Czech Republic and New Zealand. A total of 260 films were shown at this year's festival.

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n film ''

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'' was awarded two Golden Goblets - for best directing ( Māris Martinsons) and best music (

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). The 11th Shanghai International Film Festival was searching for a new film director to be the head of the SIFF jury, after the sudden death of

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. Shanghai Film Festival Seeking Jury Head
2008-03-22, Shanghai Daily

Jury

This year's jury members are: *

(Director, Hong Kong, China, jury president) *

(Actress, United States) *

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(Film producer, Germany) *

(Director, Denmark) *

(Actress-writer, Israel) *

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(Actress, Japan) *

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(Director, China)

References

External links

Official website

11th Shanghai International Film Festival
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