The 19th Beijing College Student Film Festival (BCSFF) kicked off in Beijing on March 25, with the screening of a romantic movie, To My Wife.

More than 30 domestically-produced movies, including the popular comedy Love is Not Blind, Mr Tree and the war drama Cold Steel will be on show in universities across the capital.

The event, on until April 26, features a jury consisting of 10 young film critics and 30 student judges from colleges across the country, who will hand out various awards. Launched in 1993, BCSFF is sponsored by Beijing Normal University and Beijing Municipal Bureau of Radio and Television.

As a bridge linking young people to films, the festival has been providing a stage for small-budget Chinese-made films and new directors and actors to debut. Huo Jianqi's Postmen in the Mountains, and Lu Chan's The Missing Gun, for instance, went on to win domestic or international film awards.