BJIFF forum calls for more Sino-Europe productions

Chinese and Europeans need to boost co-productions, concluded filmmakers at a forum of the first Beijing International Film Festival (BJIFF), which ended on Thursday.

Of the 130 official co-productions of the last decade, only 29 have been made with Europe, according to Zhang Xun, president of the China Film Co-Production Corporation.

The nation imports 20 foreign films for theatrical release every year, but a co-produced film is free of such quotas.