2026 China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival opens in Xiamen

China News Service, Xiamen, November 6 (Wu Guanbiao) The 2026 China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival opened on the evening of the 6th at the Xiamen Minnan Grand Theater.

At the opening ceremony, actors Huang Xiaoming and Zhao Liying lit up the golden rooster. The theme of this opening ceremony is "The Return of Light and Shadow". Taking "Return to the Screen and Return to Love" as the starting point, we look back at the annual film creation and connect film stories with public life.

This year, the movie "A Love Letter to Grandma" was a hit at home and abroad and received 6 nominations for this year's Golden Rooster Awards. The film's director Lan Hongchun appeared at the opening ceremony and told the story behind the creation of the film. Lan Hongchun said that his fate with movies began when he was living with his grandmother when he was a child. At that time, his grandmother could not understand the Mandarin lines in the movie and said that they were "movie speak". "Thirty years later, I have made three films in Chaoshan dialect, and finally turned my grandma's Chaoshan dialect into 'movie dialect'."

"The most precious and moving core of the film is precisely rooted in our own life experience and in the land beneath our feet. It is this truth and passion rooted in the soil that fills all my creative emotions and supports me in adhering to local narratives for ten years, allowing me to always know where my creations come from and who they are for." Lan Hongchun said.

It is reported that the five-day China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival has more than 60 activities in six categories, including large-scale events, film screenings, and academic forums, including the Golden Rooster Chinese Film Festival, the Golden Rooster International Film Festival, the Golden Rooster Film Forum, the Golden Rooster Cross-Strait and Hong Kong and Macao Youth Short Film Season, and a special promotion meeting for Taiwanese films.

The previously announced nomination list for the 39th China Golden Rooster Awards shows that "The Book of Thousand Tongs", "The Aviator", "Nanjing Photo Studio", "Love Letter to Grandma", "Secret Files", "Deafening" and "The Escort: The Wind Rises" "The Desert" will compete for the Best Feature Film Award; Wu Lei, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Jiang Long, Jiang Qiming, and Tan Jianci are nominated for Best Actor, and Li Sitong, Song Jia, Zhang Zifeng, Chen Lijun, and Gao Ye are nominated for Best Actress. The winners will be officially announced at the awards ceremony on the evening of the 10th.