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www.ScreenDaily.com Editorial +852 2582 8959 Advertising +852 2582 8958 NEWS Pan-Asia Academy expands , Busan and Toyko outline Academy plans » Page 4 Desen teams with Weta REVIEWS ’s opening night film proves a quirky apocalyptic horror on 3D epic Zhong Kui » Page 10 Jamie Marks Is Dead BY LIZ SHACKLETON Weta Workshop is providing FEATURE ’s Desen International Media character and scenery design for Hot titles Celluloid Dreams has brought on board top VFX the fi lm, while its sister company Screen profiles Korean cinema houses including Peter Jackson’s Park Road Post works on compos- highlights acquires Jamie Weta Workshop for $27m 3D fan- iting. The film is one of the first » Page 16 tasy adventure Zhong Kui: Snow Chinese films to use full perfor- Marks Is Dead Girl And The Dark Crystal. mance capture, which will be han- SCREENINGS Acclaimed Hong Kong DoP dled by leading Korean VFX house » Page 19 BY JEAN NOH Peter Pau is serving as producer, Macrograph (Journey To The West: France’s Celluloid Dreams has DoP and VFX director on the fi lm, Conquering The Demons). picked up international rights on which is currently shooting in Vincent E Toto Other behind-the-scenes talent Sundance competitor Jamie Marks China with Kun, Li Bingbing, (Dredd). includes action choreographer Is Dead and is launching sales at Winston Chao, Jike Junyi and Bao Zhao Tianyu (The Law Of Attrac- Jacky Yeung, M-line brings Filmart. Beier heading the cast. Desen’s Ann tion) is directing, while Guo Junli Kenneth Mak, Carter Smith’s follow-up to The An is executive producing. (Gone With The Bullets) headed the Shirley Chan and editor David Wu. Innocent Thing Ruins is a supernatural drama “This will be a unique, oriental- screenplay team. The story is based The producers are in talks with BY JEAN NOH adapted from Christopher Barzak’s style visual feast that will raise the on Tang Dynasty hero Zhong Kui, studios for international distribu- Korea’s M-line Distribution is novel, One For Sorrow. The fi lm cen- bar in terms of storytelling, perfor- who struggles between his desire tion of the project, which is sched- launching sales at Filmart on Kim tres on Adam and Gracie (Cameron mances, photography and VFX,” to bring justice to mankind and his uled for release on February 19, Tae-kyun’s upcoming suspense Monaghan and Morgan Saylor) said Pau, who is working with 3D love for a seductive demoness. 2015. Innocent Thing. Star- who are haunted by deceased class- ring Jang Hyuk (The Flu) and Cho mate Jamie Marks (Noah Silver). Bo-ah in a dangerous teacher-stu- Judy Greer and Liv Tyler co-star. dent relationship, the fi lm is set to Celluloid Dreams president Pang, Mining to develop Polaroid open in Korea on April 10. Hengameh Panahi said: “All the The company is also selling Song elements are miraculously aligned; BY LIZ SHACKLETON plans to develop the project with a For Youth (working title), an omni- an amazingly singular talented US-based Story Mining & Supply US for translation into bus of school drama shorts starring director to promote worldwide, Co (SMS) is teaming with Pang Ho Chinese. Village Roadshow Pictures K-pop idols. In post-production, the plus the creative and dedicated Cheung and Subi Liang’s Making Asia is in talks to join the project as film features Lee Dong-hae from producers Alex Orlovsky and Film Productions to develop and co-producer and fi nancier under its Super Junior, Nam Ji-hyeon from Hunter Gray of Verisimilitude.” produce an adaptation of Zhang strategic alliance with SMS. 4Minute and Song Seung-hyun Other producers include Jacob Youyou’s memoir Polaroid Stories, Making Film Productions also from FT Island. M-Line is also sell- Jaffke, Omri Bezalel and Carter to be directed by Pang. produced Pang’s Aberdeen, one of ing Mostofa S Farooki’s Ant Story. Smith at Verisimilitude Produc- Zhang’s forthcoming book fol- Pang Ho Cheung HKIFF’s two opening fi lms. tions, which made the feature in lows a young woman who deals SMS was established by produc- association with Mountaintop Pro- with her insecurities surrounding Pang and Liang brought the pro- ers Sharp (Boys Don’t Cry) and Jim ductions, Kings County Productions sex and relationships by taking a ject to SMS and will produce with Kohlberg (The Music Never 9ers digs Grave and KGB Media. UTA Independent job assisting a famous photogra- SMS’s Jeffrey Sharp and Evan Stopped) last year to produce fi lms Mourning Film Group negotiated the deal on pher, who is capturing intimate pic- Hayes. SMS’s director of Asia, Jane and TV based on content sourced behalf of the fi lm-makers. tures of couples on Polaroid fi lm. Yu, will executive produce. The team from authors and their publishers. Korea’s 9ers Entertainment is launching sales on mystery Grave Mourning (working title), Huayi introduces Women Who Flirt produced by JupiterFilm (The Face Universe unveils Chan duo Reader) and backed by new BY LIZ SHACKLETON Currently in production with distribution company Little Big Universe Films Distribution is action comedy” set in Hong Kong -based is Nansun Shi producing, A Tale Of Pictures. Directed by Oh In-chun, unveiling four new projects at and . He expects to launching sales on Pang Ho Three Cities stars and Grave Mourning features Kang Filmart, including a $12m action start shooting the as-yet-untitled Cheung’s Women Who Flirt and Ching-wan in a story that Ha-neul (TV’s The Heirs), Kim film from Benny Chan, and Adrian project after production has and Alex Law’s is loosely based on the experiences So-eun (TV’s Boys Over Flowers) and Kwan’s drama Little Big Master, wrapped on Little Big Master, for $12m A Tale Of of ’s parents in China in Kim Jung-tae (Miracle In Cell No.7). which Chan will produce. delivery in 2015. Three Cities at Filmart. the turbulent 1930s. Currently in production, the film Based on a true story, Little Big Universe is also selling Herman Starring Huayi’s slate also includes Peng follows a psychic boy as he unravels Master follows an enthusiastic Yau’s $9m Time To (American Dreams In China) and Sanyuan’s $10m drama Strays, a gruesome mystery about his headmaster who runs a kindergarten Explode (working title) and James (Cloud Atlas), romantic starring and Jing Boran, classmates’ disappearance. regardless of low pay. It is scheduled Yuen’s $5m Paris comedy Women Who Flirt is cur- and ’s $7m romantic 9ers is also launching sales on to start shooting in May. Holiday, starring and rently in post-production for a ten- drama Love On The Cloud, starring the human-rights drama Apostle, Chan’s new project as director is . tative July release. and Chen He, about directed by Kim Jin-moo. described as a “Midnight Run-style Liz Shackleton Pang and Subi Liang produced love in the age of smartphone tech- Jean Noh the $7m fi lm. nology and social apps. NEWS

E mperor HKI FF, Busan and Finecut takes gets Two off with Night Thumbs Up to expand Academy Flight sales Hong Kong-based Emperor By Jean Noh Motion Pictures (EMP) is By Jean Noh who has been nominated to the Korean sales agent Finecut has launching sales on Soi Cheang- The Academy AFAs being eligible for member- announced a raft of deals at produced comedy drama Two (AFAA) celebrated its inaugura- ship. We’re planning to undertake Filmart, led by Lee Su-jin’s award- Thumbs Up at Filmart tion last night with Moet-AFA events such as masterclasses and winning Han Gong-ju and Berli- Currently in post-production, Special Award Rising Star of Asia possible mentorships for young nale queer filmN ight Flight. the film tells the story of aspiring winners Chiaki Kuriyama and film-makers, and thinking about Rotterdam Tiger Award winner gangsters who impersonate Kim Nam-gil. having a relationship with AMPAS Han Gong-ju sold to France (Dis- policemen in order to commit a AFAA is a joint initiative of the and BAFTA. Different countries in sidenz), UK and Ireland (Third robbery, but end up working with Hong Kong, Busan and Tokyo film Asia such as Japan or Korea have Window Films) and Spain (Medi- the police to catch a gang of festivals. their own academies, but the atres). more dangerous criminals. “This is a unique and historic strength of the thing comes when LeeSong Hee-il’s Night Flight The film’s strong ensemble collaboration between three major it’s a combination,” he said. sold to Hong Kong and Macau cast includes , Simon film festivals in Asia. AFA is now Roger Garcia AFAA executive committee’s (Sun Entertainment) and Yam, Leo Ku, Patrick Tam, Mark becoming a truly pan-Asian event, Wilfred Wong Ying-wai, chairman (Joint Entertainment). Cheng and Christie Chen. which is the whole point of the looking into moving the awards of HKIFFS, director of Busan Box-office hit The Attorney sold The film marks the directorial exercise,” said Roger Garcia, exec- ceremony to different cities in Film Festival Lee Yong-kwan, and to Hong Kong and Southeast Asia debut of well-known scriptwriter utive director of Hong Kong Inter- coming editions. director general of Tokyo Interna- (Edko Films) and Taiwan (Joint Lau Ho Leung, whose credits national Film Festival Society “AFAA is also a professional tional Film Festival and TIFFCOM Entertainment), while include EMP’s The Great (HKIFFS). academy drawn from the film Yasushi Shiina were on hand to Hide And Seek sold to Germany Magician and . He was Garcia added that they were industry with a baseline of anyone celebrate the collaboration. and Austria (Edel Germany). also a co-writer on Painted Skin Yeon Sang-ho’s animated fea- and EMP’s upcoming Kung-fu ture The Fake, recent winner of the Jungle, starring . Soi Oporto best screenplay award, Cheang recently directed HAF film-makers get Greenlight sold to Spain (Mediatres). Chinese New Year smash hit The Upcoming thriller Haemoo (aka Monkey King. By Liz Shackleton by a mentor from the local film Cheuk’s family drama Don’t Look Sea Fog), executive produced by EMP has also added two The inaugural Operation Green- industry. Back In Anger (Derek Tsang); Bong Joon-ho, pre-sold to Taiwan romantic dramas — Chen light pitching event for young FDC’s First Initia- Brian Hung’s drama Mali Mali (Filmware International). Sicheng’s Beijing Love Story and film-makers will be held during tive funds projects from promis- Hung (); Vincent Ho Lee Ju-hyoung’s Tokyo Audi- Snow Zou’s With Or Without — to this year’s Hong Kong — Asia ing new talents across two and Cotin Law’s romantic comedy ence Award winner Red Family, its Filmart slate. Starring Film Financing Forum (HAF). groups: students and profession- Once Upon A Wonderland (Eddie produced by Kim Ki-duk, sold to and Gao Yuanyuan, Six film-makers have been als. The six directors selected for Chan) and Sharon Lam’s horror Southeast Asia (Astro). Kim’s With Or Without was filmed in invited from the Hong Kong Film Operation Greenlight are from the When I Come To Me (Winnie Moebius also sold to Sweden and Beijing and New York. Beijing Love Development Council (FDC)’s professionals group and com- Tsang). Finland (Njutra Films). Story, starring Tony Leung Ka-fai First Feature Film Initiative to pre- prise: Chan Tai-lee with black Operation Greenlight is jointly Noh Young-seok’s thriller and , was recently a sent their projects to sales agents, comedy Blossom Afresh (mentor organised by Create Hong Kong, Intruders sold to Malaysia and big hit on the mainland. distributors, producers and inves- John Chong); Lee Cheuk-pan’s FDC and Hong Kong Interna- Brunei (Hwa Yea Multimedia). Liz Shackleton tors on March 25 during HAF. drama Crabby Kitty’s 3rd World tional Film Festival Society Spy film Iris: New Generation Each film-maker will be guided Adventure (Flora Goh); Nicky (HKIFFS). sold to Japan (Nettai Museum). Mei Ah Entertainment unveils EFP breaks Unforgotten, On Fallen Wings Filmart record By Jean Noh By Liz Shackleton Li’s $2m crime drama Black And European Film Promotion (EFP) Hong Kong’s Mei Ah Entertain- White (working title), also in pre- through Film Sales Support (FSS) ment is producing new projects production, and Shi Chang’s is supporting a record-breaking from Soi Cheang, director of Chi- $2.5m comedy mystery Live@Love number of 32 sales agents at nese New Year hit The Monkey (working title), which is currently Filmart, representing 42 Euro- King, and veteran film-maker shooting. pean films from 15 different coun- . Produced by Yuan Fang Film tries. It marks an increase of 11 Soi is directing futuristic thriller Production, Live@Love stars companies and 12 more films Unforgotten (working title) about Chin-hua and Yi-hao in the compared to 2013. two police officers working in the story of a female private detective “Apart from a steady group of Memory Investigation Depart- who shocks her partner by using French companies who are regu- ment (MID) who read victims’ fortune-telling techniques to lars to the market and to FSS, memories to reveal details of the solve cases. newcomers such as Media Move suspects. The $12m film is in pre- , produced by from Poland are alert to recognise production. Local Films Production, stars The Huntresses packs a punch the importance of one of Asia’s Meanwhile, Ma’s On Fallen -director Juno Mak (who most important trade events. Wings is a 3D fantasy thriller set directed last year’s horror hit, ’s martial-arts comedy The Huntresses is making its “The beauty of the European on a campus where a student is Rigor Mortis) and Babyjohn Choi international premiere at Filmart today (see market screenings, page Pavilion is its one-stop shop investigating the disappearance of (The Way We Danced) in the story 22). A trio of sexy bounty hunters — Ha Ji-won (Haeundae), Gang Ye-won opportunity where buyers from his girlfriend. The $8m project is of two undercover cops, one of (Quick), K-pop group Brown Eyed Girls member Ga-In (Closer To Asia can pick up films from across also in pre-production. whom is a turncoat while the Heaven) — run into an old enemy in the action film. Jean Noh Europe,” said Susanne Davis, FSS Mei Ah is also selling Jonathan other has lost his memory. project director.

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Welcome On behalf of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), welcome to the Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (FILMART), Asia’s largest entertainment market and one of the world’s most important entertainment industry events. This 18th edition features more than 770 exhibitors from 32 countries and regions. That’s a new FILMART exhibitor record.

More than 6,500 buyers from about 50 countries and regions are expected to take part in the four-day event, 24-27 March.

More than 30 group pavilions are participating, including new pavilions from Russia, as well as the Chinese mainland’s , and provinces.

FILMART highlights include TV World. The eighth edition presents more than 360 exhibitors from around the world. The theme of TV World’s International Forum, ‘New Era of Asian Reality Shows’, focuses on the wave of reality TV shows sweeping Asia, with expert speakers from the broadcast industry examining the essential elements for creating successful reality shows. This year’s FILMART conferences range from the power of online media to a spotlight on digital entertainment and a look at the Asian fi lm industry’s next generation.

Other highlights include Locations World, promoting location shooting and related services in a variety of countries, including Cambodia, Korea, Malta and South Africa. The Business of IP Zone is also returning, with lawyers, auditors and other specialists providing intellectual property trading and advice on management services.

More than 70 special events, from fi lm premieres and cocktail receptions to award presentations and other networking events, will take place during FILMART.

FILMART is part of Entertainment Expo Hong Kong. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Asia’s leading entertainment industry gathering presents nine multimedia events showcasing fi lm, television, digital entertainment and music.

I wish you all the best of business at FILMART 2014.

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HKIFF In brief ASIAN PREMIERE — Blind MASTER CLASS R100 Dir/scr: Hitoshi Matsumoto. Jap. 2013. Reviewed by Fionnuala Halligan Chi-Ger. 2013. 114mins 100mins. I See It My Way Director Cult Japanese film-maker Hitoshi Matsumoto Tui Na, the Chinese title of , is a form Production companies delivers another delightfully oddball film with of therapy often practised in China’s medical mas- Shaanxi Culture Industry, the subtly titled R100, which follows the tra- sage centres for the blind. There are more than Dream Factory vails of a genial Japanese family man whose 50,000 licensed blind masseurs in China, and Bi International sales Wild liking for S&M sees him pursued by an Feiyu’s bestselling novel, which Ma Yingli has Bunch, www.wildbunch.biz increasingly strange band of leather-clad adapted for the big screen, focuses on the lives and Producers Wang Yong, Nai dominatrixes. Matsumoto pushed boundaries loves of the practitioners in one such Nanjing cen- An, Li Ling with his challenging and impressive earlier tre. It is not difficult to figure out why Lou Ye (Mys- Executive producers Lou films — such asBig Man Japan and Symbol — tery , Suzhou River) was attracted technically to this Ye, Nai An, Kristina Larsen and here presents his variation on the sex project, and his rich use of light and darkness Screenplay Ma Yingli, Fever’s Huang Xuan and Huang Lu play the angry comedy… not that there is any sex on show. helps create a strong visual ebb and flow, from jar- from the novel by Bi Feiyu young blind boy Xiao Ma, who kicks off the film The film is a strange and often very funny offering, never quite as it seems, from a direc- ring moments of high melodrama to the more gen- Cinematography Zeng with a botched suicide attempt, and his prostitute tor in control of his subject matter. Matsumoto tle, blurred edges of love. Jian lover, Mann. Mei Ting is Du Hong, the centre’s can always be relied on to deliver something With the book well-known in China, coupled Editors Kong Jinlei, Zhu Lin beautiful masseuse. They share scenes with blind rare, challenging, entertaining and bizarre. with some bravura performances from his , Production designer actors including Zhang Lei, who has a natural ease. Mark Adams Blind Massage stands to perform well in the local Du Ailin Guo and Qin play old college who are reu- marketplace. International reaction may be more Music Johann Johannsson nited at the centre. Dr Wang (Guo) has arrived in CONTACT FREE STONE PRODUCTIONS divided, however, with some likely to want a more Main cast Guo Xiaodong, Nanjing with his partially sighted fiancée Kong, but www.stonefreeproductions.com coherent piece. While on the one hand, Lou aban- , Zhang Lei, Mei their relationship is troubled — her parents will dons restraint to push the envelope visually in an Ting, Huang Xuan, Huang never accept a blind man as her husband, while his Journey To The West exciting — if occasionally confusing — way, Blind Lu, Jiang Dan brother and parents are in trouble with loan sharks. Dir: Tsai Ming-liang. Fr-Tai. 2014. 56mins. Massage also has a tendency to trip over into high Dr Sha (Qin), a hopeless romantic, falls for Du Asian Premiere — Master Class melodrama. With so many of the ensemble cast Hong, who is attracted to Xiao Ma in a slightly soapy The question “How slow can you go?” is given a bloody resolution to their stories, Lou’s scenario. All stories will come to a violent resolution, answered with sublime poise (quite literally) screenplay can often seem careless, throwing away though, as Lou’s camera drifts in and out of focus. by actor Lee Kang-sheng in Tsai Ming- the credibility he has worked so hard to earn. “The blind are in the light, while the sighted hide in liang’s extraordinary Journey To The West (Xi Blind Massage fields an ensemble cast including the shadows,” concludes the screenplay, and it is a You), a film that may well be the last word in some sighted actors, notably Lou Ye’s regular col- poignant observation. Lou illuminates and shades ‘’. A follow-up to the Taiwanese director’s 2012 short Walker — which origi- laborators Guo Xiaodong and Qin Hao. Spring their existence in all their heightened emotions. nally formed part of the portmanteau film Beautiful 2012 — Journey takes the same premise, a Buddhist monk walking at some- thing slower than tortoise pace, relocates it to Marseille and introduces the always fascinat- The Midnight After ASIAN PREMIERE — ing wild card of Denis Lavant. The words Opening night ‘hypnotic’ and ‘mesmerising’ are overused with regard to such abstract cinema, but the Reviewed by Flossie Topping HK-Chi. 2014. 124mins words genuinely apply in this remarkable Director Fruit Chan venture that is more like a performance or The Midnight After is a quirky apocalyptic horror Production companies installation art project than an ‘’. from Hong Kong indie director Fruit Chan. Adapt- The Midnight After Film Jonathan Romney ing the web-series turned bestselling novel Lost On Production, One Ninety CONTACT URBAN DISTRIBUTION A Red Mini Bus To Tai Po by a writer who goes by Films Co www.urbandistribution.com the pen name Pizza, the film follows 17 Hong International sales Kongers as they travel by nightbus to Tai Po, a mar- Fortissimo Films, Tamako In Moritorium ket town on the outskirts of the city. www.fortissimofilms.nl Dir: Nobuhiro Yamashita. Jap. 2013. 78mins. Things become mysterious when the bus passes Producer Amy Chin I See It My Way through a tunnel, and emerges into a completely Executive producers A gently quirky film that recalls the oddball deserted street. The group soon starts to question Winnie Tsang, Fruit Chan Fans of Chan will warm to his unique sense of charm of his 2005 filmLinda, Linda, Linda, whether they may be the last 17 people alive. Screenplay Chan Fai- humour and many pop-culture references, such as Nobuhiro Yamashita’s engaging and sweetly Set against a backdrop of neon lights and whiz- hung, Kong Ho-yan, Fruit having his characters play Candy Crush or indulge beguiling Tamako In Moratorium is a laid- zing traffic, Chan and Lam Wah- Chan, based on the novel in air guitar with a mop, but for a wider audience, back pleasure, revelling in its modest dramatic tsuen capture the bustling city in all its glory. Lost On A Red Minibus To the randomness of events and gratuitous violence movements and driven by an almost expres- However, it is the diverse characters that make the Tai Po by Pizza may leave them pining for a more fixed or sionless — but engaging — lead performance film so engaging, with a potbellied gambler (Lam Cinematography Lam plot structure. The Midnight After may be best by young Maeda Atsuko as genial slacker Suet), a cokehead () and a psychic insur- Wah-tsuen suited to a local audience. Tamako. She is a delight as a 23 year old ance saleswoman (Kara Hui) brought together to Editors Tin Sup Fat, ToTo In his earlier films, Chan made numerous refer- floundering around, looking for direction but discuss their fate in an abandoned Michelin- Production designer ences to Hong Kong’s relationship to China and its also content with her father’s love and atten- starred restaurant. Andrew Wong burgeoning ­identity. The Midnight After continues tion. Her subtle eye movements or changes in comes in bursts when the charac- Main cast Wong You-nam, that theme, ­delivering a distinct local flavour while posture tell as much about her character as ters start to be killed off in odd circumstances, Janice Man, Simon Yam, also throwing in ­commentary about Hong Kong’s lines of script or exaggerated gestures, with some contracting the plague and others simply Kara Hui, Chui Tien-you, zombie-like masses, the lasting effects of the SARS the film ultimately an understated gem. turning to stone and crumbling into dust. Odder Lam Suet, Cheuk Wan-chi, virus and the 2011 nuclear ­meltdown in Fukush- Mark Adams still, the group find the only clue they have been Lee Sheung-ching, Sam ima, Japan. CONTACT BITTERS END INC given by their mysterious enemy is the lyrics to Lee, Cherry Ngan, Melodee During the film we are told “Hong Kong doesn’t [email protected] David Bowie’s song Space Oddity, sent to them in Mak, Jan Curious, Ronny do sci-fi”, but Chan has successfully defied genre Morse code on their phones. Yuen, Kelvin Chan conventions here.

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HAF Profiles

A Nail Clipper Romance Dance Of Death Hip Hop Kabul Dir Jason Kwan Dir Hitoshi Kitagawa Dir Fazila Amiri Project’s country of origin Hong Kong Project’s country of origin Japan Project’s country of origin Afghanistan

Hong Kong DoP Jason Kwan is set to make his directo- Japanese director Hitoshi Kitagawa is in pre-production Hip Hop Kabul is a documentary feature that tells of the rial debut on A Nail Clipper Romance, starring Chinese- with his HAF project Dance Of Death. The story follows a struggles and dreams of Afghanistan’s first female rap- Canadian actor Shawn Dou. man who, 30 years after murdering his love rival, brings per, Paradise Sorouri. Over the course of two years, the The story is based on The Nail Clipper Monster, the his wife and daughter to the village Bon festival, declar- film follows her courageous, emotional and thought- pioneering microfilm produced by maverick film-maker ing that he will dance unto death to atone for the crime. provoking musical journey in the patriarchal society of Pang Ho Cheung’s Making Film Productions in collabo- “I was born as the son of a Buddhist priest and have Afghanistan. ration with Samsung and Sina, which achieved more been constantly aware of death since childhood. At some “We have been documenting her live performances at than 400 million hits within two months of its online point in my life, I became obsessed with the idea that the major international concerts. Through this film I aim to launch in 2010. most beautiful way to die is to prove your love by death,” promote her as a female role model challenging the tra- Unlike its inspiration, which is more of a serious says Kitagawa. ditional role of Afghan women and introducing Afghan drama, the new project is a romantic comedy with a The director’s previous films include Damn Life, rap as a new genre of artistic expression in Afghanistan,” light-hearted plot. Dou, who made his acting debut in which won the Grand Prize at Pia Film Festival and was says director Fazila Amiri. ’s 2010 Under The Hawthorn Tree, plays a in Busan’s New Currents competition as well as Tokyo’s Most of the film has been shot in Kabul and other cit- womanising young man from Honolulu’s Chinatown Japanese Eyes section. His short, A Fallen Apple, played ies in Afghanistan including Jalalabad, Herat and Bami- whose life is turned upside down after falling for a mys- in Cannes. yan. Amiri is seeking funds to complete the final 30 days terious woman with an unusual appetite, who wants to Kitagawa says Dance Of Death will be in line with his of shooting, followed by post-production. open a restaurant that serves nail clippers. previous films in the sense that “something beyond good Amiri’s short films Paaizeb and Gerreh screened at Filming will take place in Hawaii. “A Chinese story is and evil, and human sinful nature, will be portrayed”. Montreal World Film Festival 2010 and Atlantic Film not necessarily set in a Chinese region. Hawaii has a But this time he will also depict love through the body of Festival 2011 respectively; Hip Hop Kabul is her first fea- 4.7% Chinese-speaking population but hardly any Chi- a man dancing, which is both physically and visually ture documentary. nese films have been set there. I believe this will be a captivating. Hong-Kong born producer Paul Lee is producing the refreshing experience for our audience,” said Kwan. He adds that the film could be shot anywhere in the film under Kabuli Camera, a production company The screenplay is by Luk Yee Sum, whose writing world. “I think it would be best if something typical of founded in Afghanistan in 2013 to present contemporary credits include Pang’s box-office hitsLove In The Buff the region, such as historical landscape, local culture and views of Afghanistan to both the national and a larger and . Both were shot by Kwan and produced by residents’ faces, add atmosphere to the film,” he says. international audience. Pang and his partner Subi Liang. The pair serve as pro- Producer Akiko Yukawa, whose credits include Suite Lee has previously directed and produced short films ducers of the new project. Dreams and A Fallen Apple, says they are looking for an such as Thick Lips Thin Lips (1994), which won a silver Kwan has built up a large portfolio, from music videos appropriately charismatic dancer/actor, who is tough in award at Hong Kong Independent and Video and TV commercials to films, over the past two decades. body and spirit, and they are “not limited to Japan”. Awards, and The Offering (1999), which screened at Ber- His other recent work as DoP includes Cold War, As The Production company and music ltd publishes music lin International Film Festival. He also made documen- Light Goes Out and Pang’s Aberdeen, which opens this and produces films and videos such as Kazuhiko Ogura’s tary These Shoes Weren’t Made For Walking, which year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival. Tokyo Komaotoshi. screened at Chicago International Film Festival in 1995. WY Wong Jean Noh Hip Hop Kabul is Kabuli Camera’s first project. Nandita Dutta

A Nail Clipper Romance Dance Of Death Hip Hop Kabul

Producers Pang Ho Cheung, Subi Liang Production Producer Yukawa Akiko Production company and Producer Paul Lee Production company Kabuli company Making Film Productions Budget $4.9m music ltd Budget $100,000 Finance raised to date Camera Budget $250,000 Finance raised to date Finance raised to date $3m from Making Film $10,000 (from and music ltd) Contact Yukawa Akiko $20,000 Contact Fazila Amiri fazila.amiri@yahoo. Productions Contact Subi Liang subi@making-film. [email protected] com com

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I Miss You When I See You The Honeygiver Among The Sea Dir Simon Chung The Dogs Dir Philip Yung Project’s country of origin Hong Kong Dir Dechen Roder Project’s country of origin Hong Kong Project’s country of origin Bhutan Hong Kong director Simon Chung’s I Miss You When I Hong Kong director Philip Yung deals with the real-life See You looks at the reconnection of two old school massacre that took place on board a Chinese fishing friends after a long separation. Although they are now The Honeygiver Among The Dogs is a mystery-drama as boat, Lu Rong Yu no. 2682, in his new project The Sea. worlds apart — one is a successful professional in Hong well as a love story between an undercover detective, The story follows the 30 men who set sail from north- Kong and the other, in Canada, suffers from depression Kinley, investigating the case of a missing Buddhist nun ern China on a two-year fishing voyage at the end of — their rekindled gay relationship unleashes a complex in a remote village in Bhutan, and his only suspect, 2010. Their long and lonely trip was cut short when set of emotions. Choden, a young woman labelled the village ‘demoness’ some of the men, dissatisfied with their pay and working “The story can be seen as a summation of some of the due to her solitary and seductive ways. conditions, turned against the ship’s captain. The mutiny themes and preoccupations that I’ve been developing in Kinley soon finds himself torn between suspicion and triggered a series of cold-blooded killings lasting six my work over the past 15 years,” says Chung. “For exam- intense attraction to Choden. He slowly realises her sto- months, after which only 11 of the men returned alive. ple, the two main characters are named after the leads in ries of historical dakinis (enlightened Buddhist women of Screenwriter San Shi carefully researched the tragedy my short, Stanley Beloved, and the storyline can be seen supernatural powers and wisdom) might provide the and completed a first draft of the script. She feels she has as an attempt to probe the fate of these characters 15 clues needed to complete the investigation. Currently in a connection to the crew members, who came from near years later.” pre-production, the film will be shot in Bhutan’s capital her birthplace in Shandong province. Chung started writing the script two years ago and it is Thimpu and a small village in central Bhutan. Yung says he was shocked when he first heard the now in its fifth draft. Although it will be shot on location “The film brings to light lesser-known stories of his- story from her. “The storytelling will be precise yet poetic in Hong Kong and Vancouver, the film has a modest torical women from our culture, so it’s very specific and in portraying the nightmare-like reality on board the budget of $300,000, including a grant received from yet has universal themes of mystery, compassion and ship,” he says. Hong Kong Arts Development Council last year. finding your ‘truth’,” explains Roder, who is looking for Xstream Pictures’ Chow Keung, who regularly col- Chung is working for the first time with Jacqueline international funding and distribution at HAF. “Many of laborates with Chinese film-makers Jia Zhangke and Yu Liu, who is producing through her new production com- the investigative tools used by the detective are not at all Lik Wai, will produce the film. Since 1997, Chow has pro- pany Playhouse. Her previous producer’s credits include scientific but based on visions, stories and intuition.” duced 28 Chinese films and documentaries with co-pro- Butterfly, August Story and Plastic City. After making several short films, The Honeygiver ducers worldwide, including Jia’s Still Life, which won After graduating from Toronto’s York University, Among The Dogs marks Roder’s feature debut. Her short the Golden Lion at Venice in 2006. Chung has worked in various capacities in Hong Kong’s film Original Photocopy Of Happiness was screened at Yung is currently prepping his third feature, Port Of film and TV industry. His short films have earned him Brussels International Festival in 2011 Call, winner of the 2011 HAF award for a Hong Kong multiple international film awards, while his feature and won a special jury mention at Hong Kong Inde- project, with production scheduled to start later this year. works include Innocent, End Of Love, which premiered at pendent Film & Video Awards in 2012. His previous works include Glamorous Youth, May We Berlin in 2009, and more recently Speechless. He is also a Bhutan-based Dakinny Productions, founded by Chat and documentary All Right With The World, while founding member of independent film distributor Ying Roder in 2009, is producing the film. The male lead, Kin- his recent writing credits include Rigor Mortis and As The E Chi. ley, will be played by Bhutanese actor Jamyang Jamtsho Light Goes Out. WY Wong Wangchuk, who played the 14-year-old Dalai Lama in WY Wong Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Seven Years In Tibet (1997). Nandita Dutta

I Miss You When I See You The Honeygiver Among The Dogs The Sea

Budget Producers Jacqueline Liu Production Producers Dechen Roder Production company Budget Producers Chow Keung Production companies Playhouse Budget $300,000 Dakinny Productions Budget $90,000 Finance raised companies Xstream Pictures Budget $2m Finance raised to date $64,000 from Hong Kong Arts to date $10,000 (from Dakinny Productions) Contact Philip Yung [email protected] Development Council Contact Simon Chung Contact Dechen Roder [email protected] [email protected]

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10 Minutes Night Flight Dir Lee Yong-seung Dir LeeSong Hee-il Screening in the Indie Power section at Hong Kong Hot titles: Director of fi lms such as White Night and No Regret, International Film Festival (HKIFF), Lee Yong- LeeSong Hee-il’s gay-themed Night Flight made its seung’s debut feature made its world premiere last world premiere in Berlin’s Panorama section last October in Busan’s New Currents competition, month and is screening in HKIFF’s Indie Power where it picked up the KNN audience award and Korea section. A film about isolated minorities, Night Fipresci prize, and went on to an international pre- Korean cinema continues its strong run at home Flight tells the story of three friends who grow apart miere in Berlin’s Forum last month. The story of a when they reach high school, a place of betrayal young man getting ready to pass the tests for his and abroad. Jean Noh profiles some of the highlights that risks leading them to disaster. Lee Jaejoon and dream job as a TV producer, the fi lm follows his Kwak Siyang make their feature debuts. dilemma when he is offered a stable job that will Contact Finecut [email protected] better help him support his family. Contact Lotte Entertainment [email protected] One For All, All For One Dir Park Sa-yu, Park Don-sa Confession aka Good Friends Dir Lee Do-yun Headed for the upcoming Jeonju International Film Festival’s Korean Competition, where it will make Currently in production and set to wrap in April, its international premiere, Korean-Japanese docu- Confession (aka Good Friends) is the feature directo- mentary One For All, All For One is co-directed by rial debut of Lee Do-yun. Starring Ji Sung (Whatcha Park Sa-yu and Park Don-sa. Despite the Japanese Wearin’), Ju Ji-hoon (I Am The King) and Lee government’s discriminatory policy not to support Kwang-soo (The Scent) as best friends since child- Korean schools in the country, the rugby team of hood, the fi lm follows what happens when one of Korean High School heads into competition them is asked by another’s mother to stage a rob- under the slogan of ‘One, Trust, Victory’. bery at her illegal gambling arcade as part of an Contact Indiestory [email protected] insurance scam. Contact United Pictures [email protected] Dir

The Fatal Encounter Set for a market premiere screening at Filmart, Dir Lee Jae-kyoo Thread Of Lies opened at the top of Korea’s box offi ce on March 13. Directed by Lee Han (Punch) Directed by Lee Jae-kyoo, who is best known for his and starring Kim Hee-ae (The 101st Proposition), TV series credits including Beethoven Virus and The Ko Ah-sung (Snowpiercer, The Host), Kim You-jung King 2 Hearts, The Fatal Encounter is a historical (Commitment) and Kim Hyang-gi (A Werewolf Boy), drama of palace intrigue featuring the politically the fi lm is based on the bestselling novel Elegant embroiled King Jeong-jo, his dedicated servant Lies. After her youngest daughter’s suicide, a Gap-soo and mysterious assassins. The fi lm stars mother and her elder daughter set out to solve the (Late Autumn and TV series Secret mystery of her death, insinuating themselves into Garden), Jung Jae-young (The Plan Man, Confes- the life of the girl who bullied her. sion Of Murder), Cho Jung-seok (The Face Reader, Night Flight Contact CJ Entertainment [email protected] Is Architecture 101) and Han Ji-min (The Plan Man). Contact Lotte Entertainment [email protected] For The Emperor Dir Park Sang-jun

Currently in post-production, For The Emperor is a crime action fi lm directed by Park Sang-jun (Bank Attack). The fi lm stars Lee Min-ki (Very Ordinary Couple) as a disgraced ex-baseball player who joins a loan-shark ring headed by Park Sung-woong (New World), and meets the seductive bar owner Lee Tae-im (Days Of Wrath). Contact United Pictures [email protected] One For All, All For One 10 Minutes Miss Granny Dir Hwang Dong-hyuk

Currently on release in Korea, Miss Granny has clocked up more than 8.5 million admissions and is set for a market premiere screening at Filmart. Star- ring Shim Eun-kyung (Masquerade, Sunny), the comedy is directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk (Silenced, My Father). When 70-year-old Mal-sun’s hysterical temper lands her daughter-in-law in hospital, her family decides to put her in a nursing home. Before she goes, Mal-sun has her photograph taken at a studio and is transformed into her 20-year-old self. She changes her name and decides to join her grandson’s band. Contact CJ Entertainment [email protected] Thread Of Lies Miss Granny

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n 18 Screen International at Filmart March 24, 2014 » Screening times and venues are correct at the time of going to Screening s press but subject to alteration

09:30 Gouda, Hisako Manda, And Hiroki Matsukata. Three charmed lives Uzumasa is considered the (Taiwan) 83mins. Drama. Hollywood of Japan. It has HKIFF Industry produced many ‘’ Screenings @ Filmart. films — period dramas Dir: , Jung featuring sword fights. Woo-sung, Francis Ng. These films wouldn’t be Key cast: Shih Chin- what they were if it were Hang, Wang Hsin-Yuan, not for the ‘Kirareyaku’, Andy Choi, Woo Sang- actors whose main job is to jeon, Cheng Taishen, be killed by the lead star, Zhang Xinyuan. actors who never enjoy the Three of east Asia’s most limelight. Using Charlie celebrated actors direct Chaplin’s film “Limelight” three films about three as an underlying theme, desperate men. this is an admirable story Meeting Room N101A, HKCEC told with melancholy and soul. 09:45 Meeting Room N209-N210, Man from Reno HKCEC By invitation only (US) 111mins. Drama, 12:00 horror/suspense, organised crime. Eleven 19th ifva Awards Arts. Dir: Dave Boyle. Highlights (Youth & Key cast: Ayako Fujitani, Category) Kazuki Kitamura, Pepe » Blind Vision Serna. Filmart (Hong Kong) 3mins. Japanese mystery author So-ri, Jo Min-soo. 11:30 Animation. Hong Kong 10:30 Aki Akahori takes a trip the closure of their small, A story about three women Arts Centre. Dir: Leecat to San Francisco to escape Quiet Bliss family-run business, at full bloom in their Beautiful 2014 Ho. the press tour for the (Italy) 127mins. Drama. overwhelmed by the 40s, who openly seek (China) 106mins. Drama. » Hong Kong Station latest book in her famous Intramovies. Dir: economic recession. and enjoy lust, passionate The Hong Kong (Hong Kong) 3mins. ‘Inspector Takabe’ series. Edoardo Winspeare. Working the land and love and sex. International Film Animation. Hong Kong Feeling lonely and Key cast: Celeste trading products — Meeting Room N201B, HKCEC Festival Society. Dir: Arts Centre. Dir: Wong vulnerable, she begins an Casciaro, Laura against all expectations Zhang Yuan, Kang Je-kyu, Wai-Ho. 10:30 affair with a mysterious Licchetta, Gustavo — gives them the chance Christopher Doyle, Shu » I am not a Superhero traveller from Reno who Caputo, Anna of a fresh beginning Quiet Bliss Kei. Key cast: Li Quan, Lv (Hong Kong) 21mins. is staying in the same Boccadamo, Barbara De and the possibility of a See box, left Yulai, Moon Chae-won, Drama. Hong Kong Arts hotel. Her new lover is Matteis. new life. Koo So, Lip Ching-man, Centre. Dir: Jonathan 10:45 charismatic and charming Four women take refuge Meeting Room N211-N212, Wong Pak-hei, Erica Tam. but disappears abruptly in the country following HKCEC Night Flight Yuen, Yau Hawk-sau. » Kidnap from the hotel, leaving () 144mins. Affairs of the heart, (Hong Kong) 8mins. behind his suitcase and a Drama. CinemaDAL. matters of humanity, a Drama. Hong Kong Arts trail of questions. Animation. Hong Kong Jing. Key cast: Chow Yun Dir: Leesong Hee-il. wonderful world. Centre. Dir: Mok Chui- Meeting Room N111-N112, Digital Entertainment Fat, Nicholas Tse. Key cast: Kwak Si-yang, Meeting Room N101A, HKCEC Shan, Yip Tsz-Ching, HKCEC By invitation only Association. Meeting Room N201A, HKCEC Lee Jae-joon. Kiang Tin-Long, Lee 11:45 Meeting Room N204-N205, Three teenage boys who Suet-Ying, Yip Yuen-Ting, Shadow days HKCEC Life After Beth were once close friends Homeland Wong Ka-Chun. (China) 96mins. Horror/ (US) 90mins. Comedy. grow apart when they go (Japan) 118mins. Drama. » Tale of Rebellious suspense, organised : To the XYZ Films. Dir: Jeff to high school: Yong-ju HKIFF Industry Stone crime. HKIFF Industry Rescue! Baena. Key cast: Aubrey hides his true sexual Screenings @ Filmart. (Hong Kong) 13mins. Screenings @ Filmart. (China) 90mins. Action/ Plaza, Dane DeHaan, identity; Gi-woong Dir: Nao Kubota. Key Animation. Hong Kong Dir: Zhao Dayong. adventure, animation, John C Reilly, Anna becomes the leader of cast: Kenichi Matsuyama, Arts Centre. Dir: Ng Kai- China’s one-child policy children’s. All Rights Kendrick, Molly the school gang; and Seiyo Uchino, Yuko Chung, Ng Tsz-Ching. and its repercussions loom Entertainment. Dir: Ding Shannon. Gi-taek turns into an Tanaka, Sakura Ando, » Yao Dao Police Call large in the latest work by Liang. Zach is devasted by the obsessive fan of comic Yoji Tanaka. (Hong Kong) 15mins. Zhao Dayong, best known The story starts when two unexpected death of his books. Tired of the Jiro returns to his home Drama. Hong Kong Arts for his sprawling and boxes are switched girlfriend, Beth. But when constant malicious near Fukushima nuclear Centre. Dir: Wong Chun- singularly enlightening mistakenly in the middle she comes miraculously bullying by Gi-woong’s plant and begins to Pong. documentaries about life of a stormy night. The back to life, Zach takes of gang, Gi-taek betrays cultivate the land. » YETI on the fringes of lives of Bald and his advantage of the them by disclosing that Meeting Room N101B, (Hong Kong) 3mins. contemporary China. friends, the Bear Brothers, opportunity. Yong-ju has been in love HKCEC Animation. Hong Kong Meeting Room N101B, HKCEC change dramatically. Theatre 1, HKCEC with Gi-woong for years. Arts Centre. Dir: Joe By invitation only Theatre 2, HKCEC Surrounded by the U zumasa Limelight Kwun. Venus Talk insecure boundaries of (Japan) 103mins. Action/ Meeting Room N109-N110, 10:00 From Vegas To Macau (South Korea) 108mins. school and wounded by adventure, drama. Eleven HKCEC 1st Animation Start-ups (Hong Kong) 93mins. Drama, romance. Lotte betrayals, the boys are Arts. Dir: Ken Ochiai. Support Programme Action/adventure, drama. Entertainment. Dir: driven towards catastrophe. Key cast: Seizou 40 days of silence Highlights Mega-Vision Project Kwon Chil-in. Key cast: Meeting Room N202-N203, Fukumoto, Chihiro () 86mins. (Hong Kong) 90mins. Workshop. Dir: Wong Uhm Jung-hwa, Moon HKCEC Yamamoto, Masashi Drama. HKIFF Industry »

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Screenings @ Filmart. My Dear Girl, Jin-young Dir: Saodat Ismailova. S ee box, left Key cast: Rushana 13:45 Sadikova, Saodat Rahminova, Barohad Shukurova. (Hong Kong, China) The story of four women 134mins. Action/ in Central Asia at key adventure. Universe moments in their lives, Films Distribution discovered through their Company. Dir: Benny different ages. Chan. Key cast: Louis Meeting Room N111-N112, Koo, , HKCEC Sean Lau, Lo Hoi Pang, Yuan Quan. Blind massage Tin, Chow and Wai are (China) 115mins. Drama. partners in the Narcotics HKIFF Industry Bureau. The three have an Screenings @ Filmart. opportunity to capture Dir: Lou Ye. Key cast: notorious durglord Eight- Uo Xiaodong, Qin Hao, Faced Buddha in Zhang Lei, Mei Ting, . During the Huang Xuan, Huang Lu. operation Tin’s team is At a massage centre run annihilated and he is by the blind in Nanjing, forced to choose one damaged bodies find relief survivor between Wai and beneath sensitive fingers. A Chow. The destiny of the new couple come to work three is now twisted. at the centre. The others Filmart Meeting Room N101A, HKCEC are drawn to them. escalating into violence. International. Dir: 13:45 14:00 Theatre 1, HKCEC as she pushes her Dark and hidden secrets Sherwood Hu. Key cast: My Dear Girl, Jin- screenplay about zombies. are unveiled one by one Huang Xiaoming, Amber Chasing The Demon Boonie Bears: To the young Jin-young meets director and the family is forced to Kuo, Kim A Joong, Eric (Indoesia) 74mins. Rescue! (South Korea) 102mins. Hwang, a senior confront their past — that Mabius, , Horror/suspense. BIC (China) 90mins. Action/ Drama, romance. alumnus who she really deep down they have never Charles Chen, Crystal Production. Dir: Nayato adventure, animation, Indiestory. Dir: Andrew dislikes. But he finds her been able to forget or Huang. Fio Nuala. Key cast: children’s. All Rights Lee. Key cast: Kim Kyu- script interesting and forgive themselves. The Ice, a talented video-game Evan Sanders, Masayu Entertainment. Dir: Ding ri, Park Won-sang. decides to make it into a truth sees twist after twist programmer, is also a Anastasia, Cinta Dewi, Liang. Jin-young, an aspiring film. From then on, real of shocking terror. basketball fan and plays Munajat Raditya. Meeting Room N204-N205, screenwriter who is also a film-making and love Theatre 2, HKCEC the game with his colleages Andika and Tarina decide HKCEC 30-year-old virgin, is come to Jin-young. Hu Jiao and Xiao Hei. to settle in Bandung after 12:15 continually rejected by a Meeting Room N202-N203, However, the team is soon an accident that nearly Flowing stories film production company HKCEC God’s Pocket dismissed by the newly cost their lives. Andika (Hong Kong) 87mins. (US) 88mins. Comedy, appointed CEO, who is agrees to buy an old house Documentary. HKIFF drama. Electric going to develop a brand from someone named Industry Screenings @ Unfortunately, his stay is magical forces. And she Entertainment. Dir: John new online basketball Lukman because it’s quite Filmart. Dir: Tsang Tsui brief. ends up staying at Kyung- Slattery. Key cast: Philip game called Amazing. Ice large and the price is Shan. Key cast: Yu Tam Meeting Room N102-N103, chun’s place. Gradually, Seymour Hoffman, is the only one to stay. But cheap. But Andika doesn’t Kiu, Lau Sui Kiu, Lau HKCEC the two become close and Christina Hendricks, right before Amazing is realise the owner of the old Hing Wah, Lau Mei Lan, Il-ho begins to slowly John Turturro, Richard released, Ice notices a bug house still haunts and Lau Mei Ying, Lau Kam The Satellite Girl and understand the human Jenkins. that is potentially harmful terrorises anyone who Wah. Milk Cow heart. When Mickey’s crazy to the gamer. stays there. A story of change, the (South Korea) 81mins. Meeting Room N104-N105, stepson Leon is killed in a Meeting Room N206-N207, Meeting Room N204-N205, migration of Hong Kong Animation, Children’s, HKCEC construction ‘accident’, HKCEC HKCEC people and the drama, romance. nobody in the working- 13:45 unknowability of the future. Indiestory. Dir: Chang Tche Se ond Coming class neighborhood of God’s Early Autumn Meeting Room N201A, Hyung-Yun. Key cast: (Hong Kong) 85mins. Pocket is sorry he is gone. Carrotman (Japan) 95mins. Drama. HKCEC Yoo Ah-In, Jung Yu-Mi . Drama, horror/suspense. Mickey tries to bury the (Japan) 30mins. Chubu-Nippon Il-ho, the satellite All Rights Entertainment. bad news with the body, Animation. PA Works. Broadcasting Co. Little Brother KITSAT-1, is launched into Dir: Herman Yau. Key but when the boy’s mother Dir: Masayuki Yoshihara. Dir: Masato Harada. (Kazakhstan) 95mins. space. She observes Earth cast: Don Li Yat Long, demands the truth, and a Key cast: Saori Hayami, Key cast: Koji Yakusho, Children’s, Drama. All and becomes curious about Joey Leong, Maggie Shiu, local reporter starts sniffing Toshiyuki Morikawa, Rie Noriko Nakagoshi. Rights Entertainment. the human heart. Kyung- Kenny Wong. around, Mickey finds Kugimiya, Kikuko Inoue, A widower, Matsubara Dir: Serik Aprymov. Key chun, an aspiring Ming and his wife Jen live himself in a darkly comedic Mami Koyama, Takehiko feels empty since his cast: Aidos Bektemir, musician, is heartbroken a quiet and ordinary life life-and-death struggle. A Higuchi. daughter’s marriage and Alisher Aprymov, Almat and turns into a milk cow with their 13-year-old body he can’t bury, a wife Carrotman makes a seeks solace in a class Galym, Dokdurbek when his longtime love daughter Lucy, while their he can’t please and a debt sudden appearance when reunion in Kyoto. Kydyralier, Muiat Omaror. interest, Eun-jin, starts to 20-year-old son Sunny is he can’t pay. Mari tries to eat a food Meeting Room N201A, Yerken lives in a small date another guy. Then at medical school overseas. agnes b. CINEMA – Hong that she dislikes. Carrot, HKCEC village, lost in the one day Kyung-chun is Everything seems just Kong Arts Centre bell pepper and milk turn mountains. Abandoned by attacked by the perfect until Ming into the mystical creature. T he Fatal Encounter 13:00 his father at only nine Incinerator, which tracks accidentally knocks down Mari tries to overcome the (Promo Screening) years old, he lives alone down those with a broken Lucy with his car just Amazing problem by using her (South Korea) 105mins. following the death of his heart. At that moment before her 14th birthday. (China) 105mins. Drama, weird magic. Drama. Lotte mother. One day, his Il-ho falls from space and From that point on, Lucy’s romance, sci-fi, fantasy. Meeting Room N211-N212, Entertainment. Dir: Lee brother returns home. becomes human by behaviour turns bizarre, China Film Promotion HKCEC Jae-Kyoo. Key cast: Hyun » n 20 Screen International at Filmart March 24, 2014 Screen Daily.indd 1 2/7/2014 12:25:16 PM Bin, Jung Jae-Young, Cho 16:00 Jung-Seok. One year into King Jeong- After School jo’s reign, a fated day Midnighters unfolds around a man (Japan) 95mins. Action/ who must live, a man who adventure, animation, must kill, and a man who children’s, comedy. must protect. MontBlanc Pictures Co. Meeting Room N109-N110, Dir: Hitoshi Takekiyo. HKCEC Key cast: Koichi Yamadera, Hiromasa Fly, Dakota, Fly! Taguchi, Haruka See box, below Tomatsu, Sakiko Uran, Minako Kotobuki. Hou se of Magic Mysterious phantoms (Belgium, France) move in the night within 85mins. Animation. the science room of a StudioCanal. Dir: Ben prestigious elementary Stassen. school. On the school’s Seeking shelter from a open day, three storm, abandoned young kindergarten girls find an cat Thunder sneaks into a unfortunate human mysterious mansion owned anatomic model in the by retired magician science room and get up to Lawrence, aka The some mischief. That night, Illustrious Lorenzo. the anatomic model bursts Lawrence shares his fairy- into a frenzy of rage for tale world with many Filmart the embarrassment the animals and a dazzling Olivier Gourmet. industry declining rapidly, girls put him through 14:00 array of automatons and village on Sado Island. Born out of wedlock early a farmer created 17 during the day. With the gizmos capable of Fly, Dakota, Fly! The villagers were in the last century, Violette harmless rice bombs to help of his skeletal buddy, whipping up breakfast (Japan) 110mins. surprised and confused Leduc meets Simone de wake the conscience of the they invite the three girls while rolling out a Drama. Niigata at the arrival of British Beauvoir. An intense government. to come to the school at spectacular song-and- Prefecture Film soldiers who had been lifelong relationship agnes b. CINEMA! Hong Kong midnight, and make dance routine. He soon Commission their enemies only five develops between the two Arts Centre preparations for their makes Thunder feel Association. Dir: Seiji months prior. But the women authors, based on revenge. 15:30 welcome, but Jack the Aburatani. Key cast: villagers were committed Violette’s quest for freedom Meeting Room N211-N212, rabbit and Maggie the Manami Higa, Masataka to the Sado spirit of through writing and on Killers HKCEC mouse start plotting to get Kubota. altruism, and by Simone’s conviction that (, Japan) him kicked out. When January 14, 1946. A fostering a friendship she holds in her hands the 137mins. Action/ The Deadly Bullet Lawrence ends up in the mere five months after and solidarity that destiny of an extraordinary adventure, horror/ (China) 94mins. Action/ hospital, his nephew tries the end of the Pacific transcended national writer. suspense. XYZ Films. adventure. China Film to trick him into selling War, a British Army borders, they made the Theatre 1, HKCEC Dir: The Mo Brothers. Promotion International. the house. But its ragtag VIP plane, Dakota, Dakota fly once again. Key cast: Kazuki Dir: Ren Pengyuan. 14:30 inhabitants develop a made an emergency Meeting Room N201B, Kitamura, Oka Antara, Key cast: Pu Bajia. spooky strategy to defend landing near a small HKCEC Fountain Pen Rin Takanashi, Luna In the waning years of the their home. They turn the (Japan) 59mins. Drama. Maya, Tara Basro. Qing Dynasty, a house into a haunted TAKAOcan Dream In Tokyo, a serial killer is performance of the opera mansion, using Thunder Five little heroes study at 14:15 Company. Dir: Tohru murdering women and ‘Farewell My Concubine’ as their secret weapon. Hero School. Ichikawa. Key cast: posting his violent crimes takes place at the Theatre 2, HKCEC Meeting Room N209-N210, Twelve Nights Hiroyuki Watanabe. online. In , a rogue provincial capital’s largest HKCEC (Taiwan) 98mins. Saburo is a writer and a vigilante uploads his theatre. Provincial Kamihate Store Documentary. Media murder suspect. Kaoru, is murder spree for the world governor Etuo has come (Japan) 107mins. Drama. Once Upon A Forest Link (HK). Dir: Raye a housewife who cares for to see. especially to see the play, Open Sesame Co. Dir: (France) 79mins. Liu. her mother but is tired of Meeting Room N209-N210, but things go wrong when Tatsuya Yamamoto. Key Wild Bunch. Dir: Luc This documentary follows life. They both come from HKCEC the King of Chu, a cast: Keiko Takahashi, Jacquet. the plight of some 450 Tokyo and run into each character in the play, 15:45 Susumu Terashima, Film-maker Luc Jacquet dogs brought to a single other at Himi station in suddenly stabs the Kento Hukaya. invites the viewer into a animal shelter during rural Japan. This fleeting Out of Inferno governor. The governor’s People often buy a one- never-before-seen world of the winter of 2013. moment will start to (Hong Kong, China) chief bodyguard, Ye way ticket to the hamlet of natural wonder and Policy dictates that any change and refresh their 107mins. Action/ Dewen, attacks in turn, Kamihate. Chiyo, the staggering beauty – the animal not adopted lives. adventure. Universe killing bystanders as he owner of a local shop, is world of the primeval rain within 12 nights will be Meeting Room N211-N212, Films Distribution tries to reach the assassin, also seeking a way out forest. destroyed. Only around HKCEC Company. Dir: Oxide forcing the King of Chu to from her sorrow, looking to Meeting Room N111-N112, 10% of residents will find Pang, Danny Pang. risk his life to defend the 14:45 avoid that long walk to HKCEC homes. Key cast: Louis Koo, innocent Chen Zilia. the cliff from which there Meeting Room N101B, HKCEC The Rice Bomber Sean Lau, Sinje Lee, Meeting Room N206-N207, is no return. National Base for (Taiwan) 118mins. Chen Si Cheng. HKCEC Meeting Room N102-N103, International Cultural Violette Drama. HKIFF Industry A serious fire occurs at a HKCEC Trade Hit Shows (France) 139mins. Screenings @ Filmart. busy commercial tower. The Huntresses 120mins. National Base Drama. Doc & Film Dir: Cho Li. Key cast: Keung, an ex-firefighter (South Korea) 107mins. The Little Heroes For International International. Dir: Huang Chien-wei, who quit three years ago, Action/adventure, (Japan) 50mins. Cultural Trade. Martin Provost. Key cast: Nikki Hsieh, Michael rediscovers his repressed comedy. Showbox/ Animation. 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