The 6th Hainan Island International Film Festival (HIIFF) is scheduled to take place from Dec 4 to 10 in Sanya City, south China's Hainan Province, as announced at a press conference on Sunday.

Co-hosted by China Media Group (CMG) and the Hainan provincial government, this seven-day event will feature a series of activities, including an opening ceremony, the competition for the Golden Coconut Awards, a Golden Coconut Awards forum, and a screening section.

This year, the festival will continue to uphold its concept of "screening in the whole island, so that the whole people can watch movies." It will introduce open-air screening activities with Hainan's unique characteristics while showcasing outstanding Chinese and international films at partner theaters.

"We have collected films from all over the world for the 'Golden Coconut Award' competition and screening sections, receiving 4,330 submissions from 117 countries and regions," said Chen Jiyang, executive deputy director of the Publicity Department of the Hainan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.

The competition section of this year's Golden Coconut Award will feature three categories: story feature film, documentary feature film and short film. The jury will be led by jury president Luc Paul Maurice Besson, along with a panel of domestic and international film professionals.

In collaboration with 20 movie theaters across Hainan Province, the event will screen over 100 films, complemented by various screening activities.