[1] In all, over 764 films were submitted, but only seventeen were selected to compete for the Golden Goblet or "Jin Jue."
The jury was chaired by French filmmaker Luc Besson.
[1] The 2006 rendition of the Shanghai International Film Festival was meant to place the program as a top echelon international festival.
Problems plagued the two-week festival, however, including poor Chinese-English translations and a failure by many of the filmmakers to even attend the award ceremony.
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