A months-long innovative maritime film festival launched by Chinese giant Adora Cruises has won the favor of travelers, who are offered the opportunities to take part in a wide range of movie-theme onboard entertainment and to enjoy classic movie screenings.
The cruise ship film festival was launched on March 29 in Shanghai and was jointly presented by Adora Cruises and Changchun Film Group.
Guests are treated with movie screenings, panel sessions with actors, as well as interactive performances themed on classic movies during a five-day voyage.
The themed cruise season will run until the end of June on three cruise ships.
"The guests can check our beautiful exhibitions. They can also have the opportunity to walk on a red carpet at our maritime film festival, just like the stars that they have always wanted to be," said Guo Jia, assistant vice president of product and customer experience at Adora Cruises.
Passengers said the idea of maritime film festival is very attractive.
"I think this is a very unique theme, because very few cruise ships host a film festival, making it quite a novel experience," said a tourist.
"[I can] watch the old movies from China that I cannot watch online. And then I can see the setup for the film festival, and I can take photos [and] post [them] in the social media and show [them to] my family at home and friends," said a Philippine passenger.
An organizer of the film festival said the event help to increase the popularity of films by innovating the way to bring them to the audience.
"We will showcase all these films in diverse ways across China, bringing films to life and making them more popular. This event will run until June, and we will also roll out new themes on every cruise ship and along every travel route. In the future, we will also help the cultural heritage of the film industry go global," said Ye Zilong, chairman at the Former Site Museum of Changchun Film Studio Cultural Communication Company Limited.
Innovative maritime film festival wins favor of travelers
Solly Mapaila, general secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP), criticized some countries jeopardizing the international rule-based system with wars, violence and sanctions as he elaborated on challenges multilateralism faces and Global South cooperation in a recent interview with China Global Television Network (CGTN) in Beijing.
Mapaila called these countries' unilateral actions "disruptive" to international order.
"The changing nature of the strategic relations, if you like, the world balance of forces, that the capitalist world has practically devoured and are destroying international rule-based system. They are destroying international law. They arrogated to themselves the leaders of the world. They are trying to impose their ideas as universal ideas, and in the context of an emerging multipolar world largely and centered around China and to an extent as well the Russian Federation, they found it difficult to allow this to happen and they become disruptive. That's why they have launched wars, violence, sanctions, interference in countries' internal affairs, interference in security threats and everything else," he said.
Against uncertainties posed by unilateralism, Mapaila highlighted the importance for the Global South to show solidarity like they have at the Bandung Conference in Indonesia and the Tricontinental Conference in Cuba.
"Now, the Global South has a necessity to relive the moment of Bandung in which the South came together to struggle and to consolidate their solidarity against colonialism. This conference took place in Indonesia, and later on the Tricontinental Conference that took place in Cuba, which we are celebrating [the 60th anniversary now], in 1966, where Africa, Asia and Middle East, Latin America came together to discuss the challenges of colonialism and how to come out and support one another so that solidarity is important today," he said.
Mapaila led a delegation of South African politicians to visit China in March, where the two sides discussed deepening ties and exchanged views on international and regional issues of common interest.
Wars, sanctions destroying international law: SACP general secretary
