The 6th Hainan Island International Film Festival (HIIFF) is scheduled to take place from Dec 4 to 10 in Sanya City, south China's Hainan Province, as announced at a press conference on Sunday.
Co-hosted by China Media Group (CMG) and the Hainan provincial government, this seven-day event will feature a series of activities, including an opening ceremony, the competition for the Golden Coconut Awards, a Golden Coconut Awards forum, and a screening section.
This year, the festival will continue to uphold its concept of "screening in the whole island, so that the whole people can watch movies." It will introduce open-air screening activities with Hainan's unique characteristics while showcasing outstanding Chinese and international films at partner theaters.
"We have collected films from all over the world for the 'Golden Coconut Award' competition and screening sections, receiving 4,330 submissions from 117 countries and regions," said Chen Jiyang, executive deputy director of the Publicity Department of the Hainan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.
The competition section of this year's Golden Coconut Award will feature three categories: story feature film, documentary feature film and short film. The jury will be led by jury president Luc Paul Maurice Besson, along with a panel of domestic and international film professionals.
In collaboration with 20 movie theaters across Hainan Province, the event will screen over 100 films, complemented by various screening activities.
6th Hainan Island International Film Festival to open in Sanya
Nicaragua's co-foreign minister Valdrack Jaentschke has warned that militarism must never be allowed to rise again, as Japan's recent moves to lift its arms export ban and revise the pacifist Constitution continue to draw international concern.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Tokyo Trials, where Japan's Class-A war criminals from World War II were brought to justice.
In an interview with China Global Television Network (CGTN), Valdrack Jaentschke voiced his concern that today's world order is being undermined by interventionism and other challenges.
"It is necessary for us to remember that after the end of World War II, countries worked hard to build a new international order based on international law. However, regrettably, more than 80 years later, we are seeing that this once explored and attempted order is being challenged by interventionism, a confrontational mindset, and tendencies like 'might makes right.' These are precisely the conditions that gave rise to fascism and militarism in the past, which ultimately led to the tragedy of World War II," he said.
He said the international community has a responsibility to pursue a new international order -- one fundamentally grounded in peace.
"Looking back at the history more than eight decades ago and comparing it with today's reality, it is our responsibility to recognize that the world should, and must, build a new international order that is more just, fairer, rooted in international law, based on a logic of mutual benefit and shared success, and fundamentally grounded in peace," said the minister.
"Today, as we revisit the Tokyo Trials, it is meant to remind the world that such a tragedy must never be repeated -- and that we must do everything in our power to prevent it from happening again. We must stop that dark world -- born from militarism, interventionism, and fascism -- from ever returning," he said.
Nicaraguan FM warns of militarism revival
