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The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) has announced the winners of its main competitions, with Chinese filmmaker Zhong Kaifeng’s feature film Atlantic Rhapsody receiving the prestigious Golden Goblet Award, the festival’s top honour, according to the report of the journalist Mansour Jahani. The closing ceremony and awards presentation took place at the Shanghai Grand Theatre, where the juries revealed the winners across the festival’s main sections, including the Main Competition, Asian New Talent Competition, Documentary Competition, Animation Competition and Short Film Competition.

Main Competition Winners
Golden Goblet Award: Atlantic Rhapsody, directed by Zhong Kaifeng (China), a co-production between Romania, France, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Jury Grand Prix: Iluminada, directed by Nicolás Rincón Gille (Belgium).
Best Director Award: Yassine El Idrissi for the creative documentary Halima (Morocco).
Best Actor Award: Zhang Songwen for Secret in the Box, directed by Frankie Tam Kwong Yuen (China/Hong Kong).
Best Actress Award: Khadija Amari for Halima, directed by Yassine El Idrissi (Morocco).
Best Screenplay Award: Reis Çelik for Night of Blindness, a Turkey-Germany co-production.
Best Cinematography Award: Hao Jiayue for Atlantic Rhapsody.
Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award: The Miserable Mother, directed by Susanne Heinrich (Germany/France).
Asian New Talent Competition Highlights

Asian New Talent Competition
Best Film Award: Her First Taste, directed by Gong Yiwen (China).
Best Director Award: Sompot Chidgasornpongse for 9 Temples to Heaven (Thailand).
Best Actor Award: Sompop Songkhampol for 9 Temples to Heaven (Thailand).
Best Actress Award: Ma Fufu for Her First Taste (China).
Best Screenplay Award: Ridham Janve for Hunter’s Moon, a co-production between India and Germany.
Best Cinematography Award: Samiul Karim Shuptak for The Blind Girl and an Elephant, directed by Ishtiyak Ahmad Zihad (Bangladesh/Germany).

Additional awards recognized Notes Unheard by Gu Jun as Best Documentary Film, Lucy Lost by Olivier Clert as Best Animated Feature Film, Sitting Bird by Athena Han as Best Live-Action Short Film, and If Only by Ada Güvenir as Best Animated Short Film.
The festival also paid tribute to cinematic heritage with a screening of a restored 4K version of Iranian filmmaker Bahram Beyzai’s acclaimed film Bashu, the Little Stranger, presented as part of the Classic Films section alongside other restored works.