Actor Huang Xiaoming is the image ambassador for the 2012 Changchun Film Festival, which runs from August 20 to 25 (CHINACCFF.COM)

A leading Chinese film festival opened on August 20 in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province and a cradle of the country's film industry.

The six-day event is attended by renowned film directors, playwrights, actors and actresses, composers and officials from the Chinese mainland as well as Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao.

A total of 268 Chinese-language films will be shown during the festival, 32 of which have been shortlisted for nine major awards.

Among the shortlisted films are Beginning of the Great Revival, a 2011 movie about the founding of the Communist Party of China; 1911, a 2011 film based on the 1911 Revolution led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, which brought an end to China's last feudal dynasty; as well as A Simple Life, a 2012 drama about how a rich man cared for his former babysitter when the woman was old and sick.

China Changchun Film Festival has been held every two years since it was launched in 1992. The ongoing festival is the 11th such event.

(Xinhua News Agency August 21, 2012)