The 9th Rural Film Week kicks off in Huairou: 20 open-air screenings enter the village

  The 9th Rural Film Week puts films into village squares.From September 27th to 29th, about 20 open-air public welfare screenings were arranged in Huairou Citizen Square and villagers' squares in each village, and rural-themed films met local audiences.

This is one of the key supporting activities of the 2026 Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival. It opened on September 27 in Yangsong Town, Huairou, Beijing, with the theme of “Rural Revitalization, Light and Shadow Together”.The main activities will last until September 29, and some special projects will be extended to October 3.The theme of this year's Harvest Festival is "Harvest opens a new chapter and hard work promotes revitalization". The film week arranges activities along the positioning of "Farmers are the main body, the main line of agriculture, and the home of rural areas".

Huairou’s landscape and film and television industry together form the background of the venue.The local area is integrating film and television IP with cultural tourism resources such as Mutianyu Great Wall and Yanqi Lake to expand cultural consumption beyond filming and production.

The China Film Capital has gathered 13,000 film and television culture and related enterprises, built 47 professional studios, and has undertaken the production of nearly 5,000 film and television works.The box office of films produced in the past three years accounts for about half of the country's total box office; among the six major domestic films in the 2026 Spring Festival, five were produced by “ Film City and ranked among the top three at the box office.

With film as the leader, the local area integrates animation, mini-series, TV series, e-sports, casual games and other industries to form a ”FASTER“ industrial ecology; at the same time, it relies on the large scientific facilities in Huairou Science City to promote the integration of science and film.

The Beijing International Film Festival is permanently located in Huairou, and various film, television and cultural tourism activities are held here all year round.Rural Film Week takes advantage of these hosting and industry conditions to arrange screenings, exchanges and all-media dissemination.

On the evening of September 28, a ”Rural Movie Night“ was held at Yangsong Town Film City Activity Plaza, and the results of the ”2026 Rural Revitalization Themed Movie Recommendation Activity% were released through program performances and on-site interviews.The rural-themed film development exchange meeting on September 29 invited industry and academic experts, film and television producers, and local companies in China’s film capital to discuss the integration of creation and industry.

The film week also collects rural-themed scripts from the society.

The Rural Film Week Experience Officers team is composed of film and television practitioners, short video experts, mainstream media reporters and local farmer representatives. They will visit Huairou Science City, China Film Capital, and Hemei Rural Demonstration Site, and use short videos and news reports to record local landscapes, humanities, harvest scenes and development results.

From September 27th to October 3rd, the main venue of Yangsong Town opened for the harvest market, with four sections: light and shadow exploration, countryside selection, national fashion and scenery, and agricultural science and technology intelligent manufacturing.Publicity on the rule of law, financial services to benefit farmers, live streaming of agricultural e-commerce, agricultural machinery competitions, agricultural equipment exhibitions, displays of three new agricultural achievements, village brand intangible cultural heritage performances and interesting farming experiences are all included in the event schedule.There are branch venues in Jiudu River, Yanqi, Tanghekou, Changshaoying and other places.

This year, a rural super football invitational tournament and a village BA mass competition will also be added, inviting all regions to participate in the harvest festival through sports activities.