Editor's note:

The 68th Annual Cannes Film Festival closed on May 24 in Cannes, France. At this year's festival, Hou Hsiao-Hsien of Taiwan won the Best Director Award for his film "The Assassin (Nie Yinniang)," while French director Jacques Audiard's "Dheepan" won the Palme d'Or for Best Film.

The Cannes Film Festival is undoubtedly one of Chinese film lovers' favorite festivals, along with the Venice Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival. Here, China.org.cn presents a list of Chinese people's top 10 favorite international film festivals and the Chinese films awarded top prizes at each of them.

Beijing International Film Festival (2011)

Jury president of the Tiantan awards Luc Besson (centre) is joined by jury members (from left) Kim Ki-duk, Fernando Meirelles and his wife, Robert Mark Kamen, Zhou Xun, Peter Chan and Fyodor Bondarchuk at the closing ceremony of the 5th Beijing International Film Festival on April 23, 2015. [Photo/CRI]

The Beijing International Film Festival was founded in 2011 and is held annually in April in Beijing. The Tiantan Award is the festival's highest prize. Mexican director Bernardo Arellano's film "Beginning of Time (El comienzo del tiempo)" won the best picture award at the 5th BJIFF, which took place from April 16 to 23, 2015.

According to the China Film Archive, the 2015 festival attracted 210,000 moviegoers to about 900 screenings of 360 films at 23 cinemas and eight universities throughout Beijing. It also saw the signing of record-breaking contracts involving more than 13.845 billion yuan (US$2.23 billion) during its Beijing Film Market event. The value of these contracts was greater than that signed at any other film festival in Asia.

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