The World (film) France's Lumen Films. It received additional financial support from the Shanghai Film Studio and several Japanese corporations including Bandai Visual and Tokyo FM, among others. The film premiered in competition at the 2004 Venice Film Festival on September 4, 2004, but failed to win the coveted Golden Lion, the festival's top award, which ultimately went to Mike Leigh's drama "Vera Drake", but which Jia would win two years later with "Still Life". "The World" also premiered in 2004 at the New York Film Festival and would go on to receive a limited release in New York City the following year
Dancing in the Dark (1986 film) and because of this it was then picked up by many other film festivals across the world such as the Toronto International Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. Dancing in the Dark was shown at the Festival of Festival's in Toronto on September 5, 1986. The festival which has now been renamed the Toronto International Film Festival, consisted of thirty-eight different film titles, sixteen of which were feature-length documentaries. By being a part of the festival each film was automatically eligible to win $15,000 sponsored by the City of Toronto and City-TV. Although they did not win the