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AT FILMART Girls Always Happy, review, p8 REVIEW www.ScreenDaily.com Stand 1A-B19 Editorial +852 2582 8958 Advertising +1 213 447 5120 Girls Always Happy Chinese debut lays bare a complex mother-daughter relationship Jack Neo » Page 8 iQiyi launches dramatic FEATURE heads mm2’s Korea hot projects The latest work from the directors gala slate of Inside Men, The Throne and push as TV series travel The Whistleblower BY SILVIA WONG » Page 12 Celebrating its 10th anniversary, BY LIZ SHACKLETON Hsieh Hsin-ying (Love At Seventeen) Burning Ice, as well as Youku’s Day Singapore’s mm2 Entertainment Chinese streaming giant iQiyi is star in Meet Me @ 1006, which fol- And Night. iQiyi has also sold SCREENINGS presents an extended slate of 24 launching four new series at lows a lawyer who fi nds a strange shows to US platform Dramafever, What’s on at Filmart regional fi lms at Filmart, including Filmart today, tapping into the woman in his apartment at the Korea’s CJ E&M, Malaysia’s Astro, » Page 30 a trio of new titles co-produced trend for Chinese-language TV same time every night, while Jasper Singapore’s StarHub and Hong with Turner Asia Pacifi c. drama to fi nd an audience overseas. Liu (When I See You Again) stars in Kong’s TVB. Taking the spotlight is Killer Not The four 24x45-minute series — Plant Goddess about a music execu- “In the past, costume dramas Stupid, Jack Neo’s fi rst fi lm set out- Meet Me @ 1006, Befriend, Plant tive stranded in a rural village. from TV stations have been the Mei Ah taps side Singapore and Malaysia. Film- Goddess and Re-play — are the fi rst Chinese TV dramas are gaining most popular genre for overseas ing began last week in Taiwan with to be produced by iQiyi’s Taiwan a higher international profile as markets, but iQiyi is trying to intro- into Keyboard popular Taiwanese actors Jay Shih production team. The shows fea- season runs become shorter and duce new genres such as youth and Amber An. Neo is Singapore’s ture leading Taiwanese film and budgets and production values drama, fantasy and adventure,” Warriors most commercially successful TV actors, such as Guo Shu-yao increase. Streaming platforms said iQiyi sales director Bryce Tsao. director, known for his I Not Stupid (The Teenage Psychic), who stars such as iQiyi, Youku Tudou and iQiyi’s new dramas will stream BY LIZ SHACKLETON and Ah Boys To Men franchises. in Befriend about a debt collector Tencent have driven expansion by on the company’s platforms in Hong Kong’s Mei Ah Entertain- Last year, mm2 entered into a who helps people solve relation- experimenting with new genres Taiwan and China as well as on ment unveiled a slate of new pro- fi ve-picture deal with Turner. The ship confl icts. and storylines. Netflix recently Taiwanese cable channels TTV jects at Filmart yesterday, other two Turner projects at Li Guo-yi (In A Good Way) and acquired iQiyi’s Tientsin Mystic and and EBC. including Michael Sit’s Keyboard Filmart are Ong Kuo Sin’s Taiwan- Warriors, starring Stephy Tang and set road movie 1 Headlight and Grace Chan. Currently in post-pro- Kethsvin Chee’s Hello! Tapir, a live- duction, the fi lm is based on a true action/CG-hybrid fantasy drama. event in Hong Kong in 2014 when an armoured vehicle spilled large bundles of cash in a busy street. The slate includes an as-yet-unti- Wide House tled romantic drama, produced by Joe Ma and starring Niki Chow and plays Piano, Ron Ng. The company is also sell- Waldheim Waltz ing two titles from Taiwanese fi lm- makers: Wei Te-sheng’s drama New France’s Wide House has Turn, starring Cherry Ngan, and an announced a raft of deals on as-yet-untitled romance directed by documentaries Renzo Piano, Cheng Hsiao-tse (Miao Miao) and The Architect Of Light and produced by Jet Tone Films. The Waldheim Waltz. Renzo Piano, The Architect Of Light, acclaimed Spanish (From left) EMP group chairman filmmaker Carlos Saura’s Albert Yeung, actor Nick Cheung and fi lmmaker Dante Lam WME IMG China documentary on the architect behind the New York Times snags Wong building and the Pompidou Former Le Vision Pictures Centre, has sold to Hong Kong Dante Lam pair tops Emperor pipeline executive Ronan Wong has joined (Edko), Italy (I Wonder) and Joint BY SILVIA WONG WME IMG China as vice president, Entertainment (Taiwan). of military action fi lms primarily for thriller Crossfire will see Donnie Austrian filmmaker Ruth Operation Red Sea director Dante the mainland Chinese market — Yen play a former policeman who film and TV, based in Beijing. He Beckermann’s The Waldheim Waltz, Lam made a surprise appearance Operation Mekong and Operation travels to South America to rescue will be helping the agency ramp winner of the Berlinale’s Glashutte at Emperor Motion Pictures’ Red Sea, which is China’s second his kidnapped wife. The sequel to up its involvement in developing, Original Documentary Award, sold (EMP) media launch, plugging biggest film ever — Lam further 77 Heartbreaks — 77 Heartburns — investing in and distributing to North America (Menemsha two projects. revealed that his second new project reteams director Herman Yau with Chinese-language film and TV Films) and ex-Yugoslavia On stage with his producer is likely to be set in his hometown actors Charlene Choi, Pakho Chau content, including sales to (Tricontinental). It explores how Candy Leung and the company’s Hong Kong and star his Unbeatable and Michelle Wai. China’s digital platforms. former UN secretary general Kurt group chairman Albert Yeung, Lam actor Nick Cheung. Choi is also in Wai Kar Fai’s Cold Wong was previously general Waldheim’s wartime past was said his next project will again be set Lam’s projects aside, EMP Detective, Calvin Poon’s thriller manager, international uncovered after he announced his on the sea, a mega-budget project unveiled seven new titles. Crime Fatal Visit and Tsang Tsui Shan’s co-production and distribution at bid for the Austrian presidency. co-produced by EMP and China’s thriller Integrity will be the fi rst part The Lady Improper. Rounding out Beijing-based Le Vision. Jean Noh state-run China Central Television of a trilogy directed and written by the slate is Benny Lau’s romance Liz Shackleton (CCTV). After having made a couple Alan Mak. Benny Chan’s action When Sun Meets Moon. NEWS

Celestial Tiger, Evolutionary Mega-Vision Mars charges Battery moves Out Of renew tie-up BY JEAN NOH The Shadows Pan-Asian broadcaster Celestial Russia’s Mars Media Entertain- Tiger Entertainment (CTE) has ment has sold Kirill Belevich’s BY JEAN NOH renewed its exclusive, multi-year Second World War drama Battery UK-based Evolutionary Films has output deal with Hong Kong’s Number One (Ednichka) to Japan sold Australian horror thriller Out Mega-Vision Project Workshop (Inter Film) and South Korea Of The Shadows to China (Virtual (MVP). Under the terms of the (Scene & Sound). The company Cinema) and North America (Blue deal, CTE has first and exclusive is in negotiations to lock a deal Fox Entertainment). Evolutionary pay-TV rights, along with pay- with China. has also taken UK rights and is per-view, video-on-demand and Starring Andrey Merzlikin and planning to release the film day- over-the-top rights, to MVP’s upcoming movies in Malaysia, Mikhail Yevlanov, Battery Number and-date in that territory when Brunei, Indonesia, Singapore One is based on an autobiographi- Blue Fox Entertainment releases it and the Philippines. cal story by Second World War in North America. Titles that are covered by the veteran and writer Alexander Directed by Dee McLachlan, the deal include two upcoming Nikolaev. film stars Goran D Kleut (Gods Of action pics starring Donnie Yen: The film takes place in August Egypt), Jake Ryan (The Great Enter The Fat Dragon, directed 1944 when Soviet troops are mov- Battery Number One Gatsby) and Lisa Chappell. A detec- by Kenji Tanigaki, and Kam Kar ing through eastern Poland. tive and his pregnant wife seek the Wai’s Big Brother. The deal also Under orders to ensure safe pas- Mars Media is also launching Russia. The Perfect Ones is in help of a renegade demonologist includes gangland drama sage for the army over a bridge international sales on high- post-production for release later when they find their dream house Chasing The Dragon, starring near an abandoned monastery, concept production The Perfect this year. holds some horrific secrets. Yen and Andy Lau, which Lieutenant Egorov and his battal- Ones, directed by Kirill Pletnev The company is also selling Evolutionary has also closed a grossed $87m in China last year. ion discover a makeshift orphan- (Light Up!). When a young man Second World War film T-34, deal with Fox Networks Group Based in Hong Kong, CTE age for deaf-mute children hiding dies leaving behind a wife and which it is marketing as “Fast & Asia to broadcast family filmWho operates pan-Asian TV channels in the monastery with their girlfriend, they start to receive Furious on tanks”. The film is set Killed Nelson Nutmeg? across the including Celestial Movies, cHK, Kix, Thrill and Celestial teacher Eve. They are faced with mysterious text messages on for wide release in Russia on continent. The film is about four Classic Movies. the dilemma of compromising their cellphones that prompt the December 28 via Central Partner- friends on a camping holiday who Liz Shackleton the refugees or executing their two to put aside their mutual ship in alliance with Russia One suspect the park’s squirrel mascot orders blindly. hatred and travel to the south of Channel and Amedia. might have been murdered.

Bodrov heads Buyers bite for KK’s Tofuman 108 Media, Goldfinch BY LIZ SHACKLETON theatrical release in Korea in May. tears of a mythical creature to cure Aurora pact Neon debut Shenzhen-based animation studio In addition, KK Animation is her father who has become blind. on co-pro trio KK Animation has sold 3D CGI making its international market Cheung previously worked with BY LIZ SHACKLETON feature Tofuman to Big Film for debut at Filmart to launch its new Hong Kong’s Imagi Entertain- Singapore-based 108 Media and Goldfinch Neon, the Hong Kong Korea, Sahamongkolfilm for Viet- project, 3D CGI animated feature ment, where he was art director on Aurora Media are reteaming on a outpost of the UK’s Goldfinch Stu- nam, Myanmar, Laos and Cambo- Tears, directed by Mon Cheung. Kevin Munroe’s TMNT, which trio of regional co-productions. dios, has unveiled its debut pro- dia and Viswaas Films for India. In the early stages of produc- was distributed by Warner Bros Filipino director Mikhail Red’s duction slate, including martial Directed by Joey Zou, the film tion, the film is based on the Chi- and The Weinstein Company. Eerie follows the investigation of arts fantasy The Three Swords Of follows a group of beans that nese classic text, Classic Of KK Animation is owned by a murder to which the ghost of a Master Chan, to be directed by Ser- come to life and start practising Mountains And Seas (Shan Hai mainland Chinese real-estate giant suicide victim is the only witness. gei Bodrov (Mongol: The Rise Of magical arts to gain immortality. Jing). The story follows a warrior Kingkey Group, which operates a The Philippines-Singapore Genghis Khan, Seventh Son). Cur- Big Film plans to give Tofuman a princess who is searching for the string of shopping malls in China. co-production with ABS-CBN’s rently in development, the project Star Cinema and Media East will be set in 17th-century China Productions has a cast headed and East Asia. The producers plan by Bea Alonzo, Charo Santos- to bring on board an international Five Star rises with horror Pee Nak Concio and Jake Cuenca. cast and structure the project as Spanish filmmaker Alejandro a UK-China co-production. BY SILVIA WONG they will receive their ordination Suarez Lozano’s Mogwai is a The slate also includes a big- Thai sales and production com- is cursed by the wrath of Pee Nak, $6m thriller about an expat screen reworking of stage play pany Five Star Production has a mythical giant snake. American teen in Hong Kong Stomp and an untitled martial arts announced a string of pre-sales at The film has been sold to mm2 who is trapped on a boat with a feature produced by Phillip Rhee Filmart on its latest horror title, Entertainment for Malaysia, Bru- fisherman who is about to battle (Best Of The Best series) and John Pee Nak. nei, Singapore, Hong Kong and a sea monster. Indian filmmaker Baca. The company’s Hong Kong Directed by Phontharis Chotki- Macau, MVPC Entertainment Ishan Shukla’s Schirkoa is an outpost is headed by London and jsadarsopon (Ghost Ship, Still 2) for Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos animated feature about an Hong Kong-based head of sales and written by Kimhant Kanja- and the Philippines, Deepjoy Pic- intellectually confused addict and distribution Andy Green, who nasomjai (3am part 1 and part 2), ture Corporation for Taiwan and who works as a senator in a formerly headed online platform the film is about three young men Colourful Garden for Myanmar. dystopian city. Distrify Media, and Hong Kong- who want to become monks. A local release is expected in Silvia Wong based producer Michael Leeder. However the old temple at which Pee Nak late 2018.

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Grass

Reviewed by Sarah Ward THE MASTERS Short, bittersweet and unsurprisingly soaked in soju, Hong Sangsoo’s Grass could double as a snapshot of his S Kor. 2018. 66mins filmography: tales of life, love, connection, sorrow and Director/screenplay/ yearning all unfurling in a café. Each of the filmmaker’s producer Hong Sangsoo features may seem more archetypal than the last, but this Production company 21st picture happily heeds Hong’s recognisable traits, Jeonwonsa Film Co themes and flourishes into a conversation-driven pack- International sales age. This time, he is serving up an existentially minded Finecut, cineinfo@finecut. series of vignette-like chats between men and women. co.kr Indeed, Grass demonstrates a fresh type of playfulness Editing Son Yeonji from the prolific director. It is a film filled with his usual Cinematography intimacy, but also one that is purposefully more con- Kim Hyungkoo cerned with the bigger picture than the individual details. Main cast Kim Minhee, Girls Always Happy Names are not mentioned, relationships are not Jung Jinyoung, Ki explained, and emotions, not incidents, fuel the discus- Joobong, Seo Younghwa, sion. The approach is engaging, aided by a brisk 66-min- Kim Saebyuk, Ahn Reviewed by Sarah Ward YOUNG CINEMA ute running time — although, while a more abstract, Jaehong, Gong Minjeung, COMPETITION ruminative Hong feature is likely to intrigue existing fans, Ahn Sunyoung, Shin Swap Sacramento’s lower middle-class for Beijing’s it is ultimately destined to play best on the festival circuit. Seokho, Kim Myoungsu, hutong dwellers and Girls Always Happy somewhat China. 2018. 117mins Brandishing his classic naturalistic style, Hong’s black- Lee Youyoung resembles Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, laying bare a com- Director/screenplay and-white film hops between conversations at the central plex yet relatable mother-daughter relationship. A dark Yang Mingming alleyway coffee house, listening in — and zooming for centre lurks at the heart of writer, director, editor and Production company emphasis where necessary, of course. On The Beach At actress Yang Mingming’s feature debut, however, Beijing Trend Cultural Night Alone star Kim Minhee, in her fourth consecutive eschewing warmth for a warts-and-all approach. Investment film for Hong, proves a distinctively solo figure amid the It is unflinching in its exploration of a difficult parent- International sales groups chatting over beverages. Writing at her laptop but child dynamic, benefitting from intricate performances Parallax Films, quick to explain she is not a writer, she is happy spinning from the two leads. As Yang bickers furiously with co-star [email protected] her eavesdropped snippets into her own commentary. Nai An about everything from marriage to money to table Producer Yang Jing Among her fellow patrons are a younger couple (Gong manners, Girls Always Happy proves fascinating. Yet, Production design Minjeung and Ahn Jaehong) reconnecting after clear even though it gives the first-time filmmaker and her Xia Nv, Xiong Yue difficulties, and an older pair (Ki Joobong and Seo Young- co-star a strong showcase, the film’s richness of character Editing Yang Mingming hwa) swapping dreams and disappointments. The men and insight is not matched by its narrative thrust, and Cinematography are all actors, and there is more than one writer there. may remain confined to the festival circuit. Shen Xiaomin Unsurprisingly, Kim stands out among the cast, though The first thing that is evident about twentysomething Main cast Nai An, Yang every player — many of them Hong regulars — really sells screenwriter Wu (Yang) and her unnamed single mother Mingming, Zhang the emotion behind each conversation. That said, it is the (Nai) is their festering despair. Wu cannot forgive her Xianmin, Li Qinqin, Huang classical music (Schubert, Wagner and Offenbach, for mother for past choices, while the parent never misses an Wei, Yuan Li, Li Wenbon example) paired with the majority of Grass’s discussions opportunity to offer criticism and demand recognition. that has the biggest impact. The film might paint existence And yet, with an astute understanding of the way such as cyclical, but each melodic tune offers a reminder of the close bonds can simmer with anger one moment and beauty and variety in its ebbs and flows. resound with comfort the next, they tone down their war of words on two occasions: over meals, when the usual onslaught of bitterness becomes a trickle; and whenever Wu’s Grandpa (Huang Wei) is around. That is only because they want to get into the elderly man’s good graces to secure a place in his will. Their precarious financial state illustrates modern China’s economic and social disparities. What becomes clear in every exchange is that the two women are more similar than they would ever admit. Yang grew up with her mother in the same area, which helps explain the film’s tone of art imitating life — not only in the intense central relationship, but in the detailed way she depicts every nook and cranny in their shared home, as well as the aesthetic of their neighbourhood. The set- ting shines courtesy of cinematographer Shen Xiaomin’s crisp digital lensing, which, when outside, often follows Wu riding her scooter with carefree abandon.

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River’s Edge

Reviewed by Jonathan Romney KALEIDOSCOPE

Teenage angst is one of the dependable universals of Jap. 2018. 118mins modern movie culture, and although Isao Yukisada’s Director Isao Yukisada River’s Edge gives the theme a distinctively Japanese Production company spin, there’s enough familiar about this intermittently Thefool gripping ensemble drama to leave you thinking: it’s all International sales just a phase they’re going through. The source is an Kino Films, maki- early 1990s manga series by Kyoko Okazaki, and [email protected] although there is no direct connection with the 1986 US Producers Shinji Ogawa, film of the same name, the theme — a shared secret of a Takahiro Yoshizawa, dead body — is close enough to suggest that Tim Hunt- Shunsuke Koga, Tsuyoshi er’s movie must have influenced the comic. Sugiyama The cleverly constructed drama is absorbing as it Screenplay Misaki builds, but once things hit a climax there are few sur- Setoyama, based on the prises, and it is unlikely to make waves beyond Japan. comic by Kyoko Okazaki Set in an industrial waterside area of Tokyo in 1994, Production design Last Child the story revolves around a group of variously troubled Takahisa Taguchi high-schoolers. The film’s emotional centre is Haruna Editing Tsuyoshi Imai (Fumi Nikaidou), a strong-spirited young woman seen Cinematography Reviewed by Jonathan Romney YOUNG CINEMA rescuing a young man from a locker where he has been Kenji Maki COMPETITION bound and gagged, naked. He is Ichiro (Ryo Yoshi- Music Hiroko Sebu Death, grief, reconciliation, truth — South Korean zawa), the moody outsider who is being victimised by Main cast Fumi Nikaidou, writer-director Shin Dong-seok tackles a weighty bundle S Kor. 2017. 124mins Haruna’s rebellious boyfriend Kannonzaki (Shuhei Ryo Yoshizawa, Aoi of domestic-drama themes in debut feature Last Child, Director/screenplay Uesugi). Behind Haruna’s back, Kannonzaki is meeting Morikawa, Shuhei Uesugi, but handles them all with maturity and fine-tuned nar- Shin Dong-seok up for kinky sex with class vamp Rumi (Shiori Doi), Sumire, Shiori Doi rative skill. An impressive trio of lead performances will Production company whose private life brings home the film’s highly con- make this low-key but emotionally satisfying drama ATO servative message that young sex is the royal road to appealing for festivals, and it should also put Shin on the International sales big trouble. map as a substantial new talent to watch. Finecut, jeong@finecut. Ichiro confides in Haruna, telling her that he is The closest comparison in South Korean cinema to co.kr secretly gay and is only dating ingenue Kanna (Aoi Shin’s approach would be the complex dramas of Producer Je Jeong-ju Morikawa) as a front. As if these characters did not Lee Chang-dong (Secret Sunshine, Poetry). Indeed, Production design have enough woe to keep them busy, trouble is on the Last Child has a common element of the bourgeoisie’s Kim Young-tak horizon, signalled by Ichiro showing Haruna a corpse tendency to close ranks when orderly social appearance Editing Lee Young-lim that only he knows about, mouldering in a field of long is under threat. However, where Lee’s films are novelis- Cinematography grass by the river. The pair eventually bury it, but the tic in scope, Last Child is more a novella and a tad Lee Zi-hoon very same spot later becomes the scene for a violent over-extended. Music Kim Hae-won incident that will bring the slow-burning story to a dra- The intimate drama focuses on Sungcheol (Choi Main cast Choi Moo- matic climax. Moo-seong) and his wife Misook (Kim Yeo-jin) who run seong, Kim Yeo-jin, Most of the characters are more or less archetypes, a smalltown decorating company, and whose teenage Seong Yu-bin brought to life by nuanced acting. The film’s most indi- son recently drowned in an accident in the nearby river. vidual card is Kenji Maki’s atmospheric cinematogra- One day, Sungcheol spots Kihyun (Seong Yu-bin), a boy phy in Academy ratio, which makes the best use of the centrally involved in the event, being victimised by other sinister grassland and the smoke-belching chimneys boys, and decides to honour his dead son by taking the across the river. youth under his wing. Despite disapproval from Misook, who is dealing with grief in her own way, Sungcheol decides to train Kihyun as an apprentice. Gradually, and not without difficulty, the boy finds himself rising to the challenge. The day comes when their dead son Eunchan is offi- cially honoured for his bravery, and Kihyun graduates as a qualified craftsman. All seems set for satisfactory closure all round, until the true facts emerge about Eun- chan’s death. What could easily have toppled into melodrama is contained with sure-handed restraint by director Shin. Choi and Kim bring precise modulation to the gradual shifts in the couple’s relationship, and in their attitudes to Kihyun, who becomes their surrogate son. As the boy, Seong plays nicely on the hard-to-read diffidence of this emotionally wounded character. Astute dramatic struc- turing makes for emphasis on Sungcheol in the first half and Misook in the second, as each discovers different aspects of the damage done to the life they have built.

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Far Frontiers Imah The Big Picture Dir Maxim Dashkin Dir Eddie Cahyono Dir E J-yong Project’s country of origin Russia Project’s country of origin Indonesia-France Project’s country of origin South Korea

Set in Kyrgyzstan, Far Frontiers follows the wife of a Following his last filmSiti , in which he explored the Based on Douglas Kennedy’s bestselling novel of the Russian military base deputy commander as she question ‘Who do we live for?’, Indonesian writer- same title, and Eric Lartigau’s 2010 French adapta- begins a relationship with another officer. Their director Eddie Cahyono’s latest work asks, ‘What if it tion L’homme Qui Voulait Vivre Sa Vie, E J-yong’s The affair spirals out of control, changing the course of turns out we don’t live for anyone?’ The film’s titular Big Picture is about a lawyer in the midst of a midlife her family’s life. Director Maxim Dashkin says grow- protagonist is due to return to her Indonesian home- crisis. After accidentally killing his wife’s lover, he ing up in a military family and witnessing “dreams, town after working as a domestic helper in Hong takes on the man’s identity as the photographer he frustrations and desires” of the officers’ wives Kong, but is found dead before she is able to leave. always wanted to become. inspired him to make this his first theatrical feature. Her mother and her fisherman husband vow to find “Many elements of the novel were interesting to With an MFA in film from NYU Tisch School of the murderer. me,” says E. “For instance, that a man happens to the Arts, Dashkin has directed Russian TV series “My films are always originated from questions, make a fatal mistake that he can’t turn back and then such as Missing and Me Or Not Me and award-win- but life is not necessarily about getting an answer,” changes his identity, and the ironies we see about life ning short films such asBroken Maiden and Moving says Cahyono, who made his feature debut with Let’s and desires in this. I decided to do this film because In Circles. Far Frontiers expands on the latter. Dance in 2010. Siti, his second film, earned multiple of the subject matter and theme of the novel, and “I saw there was definitely a story and room for awards including best performance, for actress Sekar because it seemed like, through it, I’d be able to share continuation of the film,” says Dashkin. “I kept the Sari, at the 2014 Singapore International Film Festi- stories about how the world works.” same characters, changed them a bit and made their val, and best film and best screenplay prizes at the E’s previous titles include The Bacchus Lady, lives more difficult so now they serve overseas out- National Indonesian Awards in 2015. Behind The Camera, The Actresses, Dasepo Naughty side of Russia, in Kyrgyzstan. But the nature of the Imah unites Cahyono with Sari, who stars along- Girls and Untold Scandal, all of which screened at the conflict of the love triangle that was the core of the side Abimana Aryasatya, together with Siti cinema- Berlinale and other festivals. He is currently working short has been [maintained] and dramatised for the tographer Ujel Bausad and producer Ifa Isfansyah, on the script of The Big Picture, with dialogue in feature.” The project, which is in pre-production, with whom he cofounded Yogyakarta-based Four- Korean, Japanese and English, and plans to start won a grant from the Ministry of Culture of the Rus- colours Films alongside several local filmmakers. shooting on location in Japan in 2019. sian Federation and aims to shoot in August and Isabelle Glachant, longtime collaborator of Chi- Jason Chae is producing with his sales and pro- September in Kyrgyzstan. nese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai, is co-producing duction company Mirovision. The company’s credits Established by Dashkin with his Tisch classmate through her Paris-based Shasha & Co Production, include Im Sang-soo’s Cannes 2010 Competition Anna von Dziembowska, Victoria Films is based in which recently produced Cannes 2017 Directors’ title The Housemaid, and its co-producing credits the UK and Russia. Its project The Longest Birthday Fortnight title Marlina The Murderer In Four Acts. include Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s horror film Loft and was awarded B’est EAVE Producers’ Workshop POV Her Hong Kong-based sales outfit Asian Shadows Liu Bingjian’s Cannes 2002 Un Certain Regard title film development fund support at Cannes in 2015. handles international sales on Imah. Cry Woman. Jean Noh Silvia Wong Jean Noh

Far Frontiers Imah The Big Picture

Producers Anna von Dziembowska, Denis Kovalevskiy, Producers Ifa Isfansyah, Isabelle Glachant Production Producers Jason Chae, Bae Ja-hee (associate Ilann Girard (co-producer) Production company Victoria companies Fourcolours Films, Shasha & Co producer) Production company Mirovision Films Budget $700,000 Finance raised to date Production Budget $275,000 Contact Asian Shadows Budget $7m Finance raised to date $4.5m $350,000 (Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation) [email protected] Contact Bae Ja-hee [email protected] Contact Maxim Dashkin [email protected]

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A Family With Troubles Ordinary People Let Me Rest In Peace A Mountain Splits Dir Yan Xiaolin Dir Huang Xi Dir Yoko Yamanaka Dir Tetsuya Tomina Project’s country of origin China Project’s country of origin Taiwan- Project’s country of origin Japan Project’s country of origin Japan China

In Chinese writer-director Yan Xiaolin’s Writer/director Huang Xi reunites with For her sophomore feature film, 20-year- Set on Japan’s Sado Island, Tetsuya latest project, six siblings return home her Missing Johnny producer Hou Hsiao- old Japanese director Yoko Yamanaka Tomina’s latest project follows a woman to celebrate their father’s 90th birthday, hsien and cinematographer Yao Hung-i turns from the comedy of her 2017 debut who seems to be split in two — some- only for family squabbles to spoil the in her latest project, Ordinary People. It Amiko — which screened in Forum at what like the mountain that marks the festive gathering. The most poignant tells of a 38-year-old woman, experienc- this year’s Berlinale — to dealing with former mine that fuelled the island’s discussion revolves around who will ing depression following her sister’s sui- the aftermath of a tragedy. Yamanaka is economic boom and bust, when gold care for the old widowed man following cide, who develops a bond with a currently working on the script, which was discovered there in the early 1600s. his recent stroke. 28-year-old Chinese opera actor with sees young woman Mieko reminded of Midori waits for a husband who never The film will feature an ensemble bipolar disorder. Missing Johnny, her her former childhood friend Tsumugi, comes home, secretly visits the place cast, playing 17 characters across three 2017 debut feature, was praised for its who was once her refuge during sad and where he lives with another woman and generations. “Through their different sensitive portrayal of Taipei and its peo- repressive school days, and how they meets a mysterious man who she calls viewpoints, I hope to take a close look at ple, and this time Huang plans to set her were torn apart after a tragic incident. “Nobody”. He takes Midori to the mine family bonding in today’s society,” says new project in Hong Kong or Shanghai. “I want to show the main character’s where he makes her dig a hole. Yan, “as if I were recreating the classic Inspired by friends who live with simi- wishes to remain deeply connected to At script development stage, Tomina Chinese films of the 1930s and 1940s, lar conditions, Huang says she aims to somebody else, no matter how old she says he is “fascinated” by Sado Island which used a single family as the focal explore the impact of mental health on gets,” says Yoko. “The sense of discomfort because of the “wonderful nature and point to reflect on family relationships love and relationships. “What attracts me I felt towards adults when I was young is traditions that remain intact” and “a and changing times in society.” are people, not stories. A story exists only reflected in the root of the film. I’ve finally magnetic primitive power that attracts A graduate of Nanjing University of when it has people in it,” says the film- begun to understand the adults then, people, something mysterious and spir- Finance & Economics, Yan has worked maker, who spent her teenage years in now that I have become one myself.” itual”. His first featureBlue Wind Blows as a producer of TV shows and has Vancouver before moving to New York to Yamanaka’s debut Amiko, a humor- (originally Smoke On The Water) also directed around a dozen short films. His study at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. ous film about a high-school girl who is shot there and he is thinking of expand- first feature was the ultra-low budgetThe Huang then joined Hou’s Taipei-based infatuated with a boy who runs away ing it into a trilogy, with the third film to Years I Watch Hong Kong Movies which, production company 3H Productions in from home, won Pia Film Festival’s be a comedy. Blue Wind Blows won sup- like A Family With Troubles, was pro- 2001, and has worked on his films and audience award and Hikari TV award in port from the Asian Cinema Fund’s script duced by NeZha Bros Pictures, founded TV commercials in roles including pro- 2017, before it made its international development fund and was selected to by Yang Cheng in 2016 with Lightriver duction assistant and assistant director. premiere this year at the Berlinale. the Asian Project Market in 2015. It made Culture & Media as a subsidiary. Hou’s directing credits include The Pia Film Festival, one of Japan’s most its world premiere in this year’s Berlinale Two films produced by Yang pre- Assassin, which played in Competition at prominent independent cinema events, Generation Kplus section. miered at the Berlinale last year: Liu Cannes in 2015. He also produced Miss- is supporting Yamanaka’s new project Producer Mina Hatanaka has been Jian’s animation Have A Nice Day, which ing Johnny, which took four awards at while she works on the script and pre- working with Tomina since his 2013 played in Competition, and Yang Heng’s the 2017 Taipei Film Festival (including pares to set up her own production short At The Last Stop Called Ghost Ghost In The Mountains in Panorama. best screenplay) and three Golden company, ahead of shooting in spring Chimney, which played in Busan’s Wide His other production credits include Li Horse Awards nominations (including a 2019. Amiko co-producer Moeko Mizo- Angle section. It was the first production Ruijun features Fly With The Crane and win for Rima Zeidan as best new per- guchi, who is studying film at Nippon of their company Tetsuya To Mina Film, River Road. former) that same year. University, will return for the project. which also produced Blue Wind Blows. Silvia Wong Silvia Wong Jean Noh Jean Noh

A Family With Troubles Ordinary People Let Me Rest In Peace A Mountain Splits

Producer Yang Cheng Production Producer Hou Hsiao-hsien Production Producers Moeko Mizoguchi, Yoko Producer Mina Hatanaka Production companies Lightriver Culture & Media, companies 3H Productions, Luminous Yamanaka Production companies company Tetsuya To Mina Film NeZha Bros Pictures Budget $1.05m Pictures Budget $2m Contact Chang Pia Film Festival Budget $300,000 Budget $1m Finance raised to date Finance raised to date $220,000 Chu Ti [email protected] Contact Miki Ohi [email protected] $30,000 Contact Mina Hatanaka Contact Annie Song songxiaojia@ [email protected] nezhabros.com

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Loud and clear A broad selection of new works from South Korea will be on display to international buyers here at Filmart. Jean Noh explores some of the available titles

Little Forest

Believer Intimate Strangers Dir Lee Hae-young Dir Kim Dae-woong

This Korean remake of Johnnie To’s In this remake of Paolo Genovese’s 2016 Drug War (2012) is directed by The Perfect Strangers, a couple invite their close Silenced and Foxy Festival director Lee friends to a housewarming party and end Hae-young and stars Cho Jin-woong (The up playing a game where everyone has to Handmaiden), Ryu Jun-yeol (A Taxi share all the messages to their mobiles. Driver), Kim Sung-ryung (The Target), Though it starts off lightly, secrets begin to Park Hae-jun (Fourth Place) and the emerge. The fi lm’s ensemble cast includes recently deceased Kim Joo-hyuck (Confi - Yoo Hae-jin (A Taxi Driver), Cho Jin- dential Assignment). It follows a detective woong (The Handmaiden), Lee Seo-Jin who, in an effort to bring down the noto- (Love Forecast), Yum Jung-ah (The Mimic), rious boss of Asia’s biggest drug cartel, Kim Ji-soo (TV’s Memory) and Song Ha- conspires with a lowly member of the yoon (Helpless). In post-production, Inti- gang seeking revenge against the boss. mate Strangers is set for release this year. Currently in post-production, the fi lm is Contact Lotte Entertainment [email protected] produced by Yong Film (The Hand- maiden, The Beauty Inside) and is Dark Figure Of Crime Little Forest expected to be released this summer. Dir Yim Soon-rye Contact Contents Panda [email protected] The Drug King The Goose Goes South Dir Woo Min-ho (a.k.a. Woozoo Be Alright?) Based on Daisuke Igarashi’s Japanese Dark Figure Of Crime Dirs Baek Jae-ho, Lee Hee-seop manga (previously turned into a two-part Dir Kim Tae-gyun Inside Men director Woo Min-ho’s crime Japanese fi lm series), the Korean adapta- drama stars Song Kang-ho (A Taxi When his boss goes missing in a ship- tion of Little Forest is directed by Yim From Spring, Snow director Kim Tae-gyun Driver), Cho Jung-seok (My Annoying ping accident, Woozoo is sent to Osaka to Soon-rye (The Whistleblower). Shot over comes this thriller starring Kim Yoon- Brother) and Doona Bae (Cloud Atlas). Set finish his business. On his last day, he four seasons, it stars Kim Tae-ri (The seok (1987: When The Day Comes) and in 1970s Busan, the fi lm follows the rise spots and chases someone who looks Handmaiden), Ryu Jun-yeol (A Taxi Ju Ji-hoon (Along With The Gods: The Two and fall of a small-time smuggler who exactly like his boss, ending up in a small Driver) and Moon So-ri (The Running Worlds) as, respectively, a well-known, becomes an infamous drug lord, playing bar where he stays and meets two guitar Actress), and follows a young woman who work-obsessed police detective and the the good community leader by day and players. Starring Kang Doo, Hori Haruna returns to her hometown, reunites with psychopath taunting him with the pros- running a criminal empire by night. The and Snow, the fi lm made its world pre- her childhood friends and learns to pre- pect of confessing to multiple murders. fi lm is in post-production. miere at Japan’s Osaka Asian Film Festi- pare meals with organic local ingredients. The fi lm is in post-production. Contact Showbox val on March 18. Contact M-Line Distribution Contact Showbox [email protected] [email protected] Contact Indiestory [email protected] [email protected] »

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The Vanished

mi (Coin Locker Girl’s Kim Go-eun) and Sang-kyung (The Tower), Kim Kang-woo other circumstances, prevent him from (Cart) and Kim Hee-ae (C’est Si Bon) and leaving. Multiple award winner Lee’s is a Korean remake of 2014 Spanish fi lm credits include 2015’s The Throne, which The Body. When the president of a con- won best fi lm at Tallinn Black Nights. glomerate is found dead and her body Contact M-Line Distribution disappears ahead of an autopsy, detec- [email protected] tive Joong-sik suspects the husband. Meanwhile, the husband — who thought Take Point he had committed the perfect crime — Dir Kim Byung-woo starts receiving text messages that make him think his wife is still alive. The Van- The Terror, Live director Kim Byung-woo ished has been at the top of the local box reunites with actor Ha Jung-woo for this offi ce since its March 7 debut. action fi lm, which also features Lee Sun- Contact Contents Panda kyun, Jennifer Ehle and Kevin Durand. [email protected] Take Point follows a team of elite merce- naries on a secret CIA mission to abduct What A Man Wants Sunset In My Hometown a North Korean politician. They Dir Lee Byeong-heon are caught in a crossfire that The Spy Gone North trust of the North’s ruling class and pushes the world to the brink Lee Byeong-heon’s comedy follows Dir Yoon Jong-bin infi ltrate their nuclear facilities. of a Third World War. Shot in the intertwining relationships of Contact CJ Entertainment [email protected] English and Korean, the fi lm two couples on windy Jeju Island, Currently in post-production, this espionage is in post-production. and stars Lee Sung-min (The drama from the director of Nameless Gang- Sunset In My Hometown Contact CJ Entertainment Sheriff In Town), Shin Ha- ster: Rules Of The Time stars Hwang Jung- Dir Lee Joon-ik [email protected] kyun (The Villainess), min (The Battleship Island), Lee Sung-min Song Ji-hyo (New (A Violent Prosecutor), Cho Jin-woong Directed by Lee Joon-ik (The Throne), The Vanished World) and EL (aka (The Handmaiden) and Ju Ji-hoon (Along Sunset In My Hometown, which is sched- Dir Lee Chang-hee Lee El from Inside With The Gods: The Two Worlds). Based on uled for local release in May, stars Park Men). In post-pro- true events from the 1990s, the fi lm follows Jung-min as a failing rapper who rushes Debut director Lee duction, the film is South Korean military intelligence agent back to his long-abandoned hometown Chang-hee’s crime set for an April 5 Hwang (code name: Black Venus) as he on hearing his father has fallen ill. It thriller stars Kim release in Korea. goes undercover as a businessman working turns out to be a ruse, but meeting up Contact Contents Panda on a project with North Korea to win the with former classmates including Sun- (Right) Take Point [email protected] Is

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Dialogues: Spanish - Cantonese | Subtitles: English

Synopsis: Wang Li-Sheng has met a Spanish girl on the Inter- net and has decided to leave everything behind and live his love story in Spain. Things don’t work out the way he expected and he eventually ends up with no girlfriend, no money and no passport!

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A series of short animated films

YAA!

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Production ZVVIKS Co-production Radio Television Slovenia, Studio dim, A Atalanta, NuFrame With the support of Slovenian Film Centre, a public agency of the Republic of Slovenia, Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Film Studio Viba Film Ljubljana Development support PRIME 4Kids&Family, HEAD, ECAL

Created by Kolja Saksida Dubbing Frano Mašković, Žiga Saksida Production designer Gregor Nartnik Character designer Blaž Porenta Editors Monika Drahotuski,

LINE UP 2018 Tomaž Gorkič Music composers Miha Šajina, Borja Močnik Supervising sound editor Julij Zornik Director of photography Miloš Srdić Animators Julia Peguet, Will Hodge Screenwriters Marko Bratuš, Kolja Saksida Co-producers Tanja Prinčič, Marina Andree Škop, Darija Kulenović Gudan, Miloš Srdić, Žiga Pokorn, Teo Rižnar Executive producer Matija Šturm Director and producer Kolja Saksida

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The Man From The Sea apanese cinema had a Dir Koji Fukada strong showing at the Ber- linale in February, where Filmed entirely in Indonesia, Koji Fukada’s JIsao Yukisada’s River’s Edge drama revolves around a Japanese family and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Forebod- working in Banda Aceh who fi nd a man ing (Yocho) played in Panorama, washed up on the beach. They take him in and, as usual, will be well repre- and discover that he understands some sented at Hong Kong Interna- Japanese, but the local population become tional Film Festival (HKIFF). suspicious of him when he starts to per- The world premiere of veteran form miracles. Dean Fujioka, Taiga and filmmaker Yoji Yamada’s What Junko Abe head the cast of this Japanese A Wonderful Family! 3: My Wife, and Bahasa-language film, which is co- My Life is closing HKIFF, which produced by Japan’s Nikkatsu, France’s is also screening recent festival Commes des Cinémas and Indonesia’s favourites including River’s Edge, Kaninga Pictures. Fukada’s last feature Yoko Yamanaka’s Amiko and Harmonium won the Un Certain Regard Akiko Ooku’s Tremble All You jury prize at Cannes in 2016. Want. Contact Emico Kawai, Nikkatsu Meanwhile, at Filmart, Japa- [email protected] nese studios will be offering recent local hits, such as Yojiro Takita’s Maquia: When The Sakura Guardian In The North, as Promised Flower Blooms well as hotly anticipated upcom- Dir Mari Okada ing titles including Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters, Koji Fuka- The directorial debut of anime screen- da’s The Man From The Sea and writer Mari Okada (The Anthem Of The Takashi Miike’s Laplace’s Witch. Heart), this animated feature is set in a Amiko mystical land where people live for centu- ries while maintaining their teenage Amiko lowing a stint in Tokyo and decides to (Our Little Sister), the fi lm is currently in appearance. Released in Japan in late Feb- Dir Yoko Yamanaka look up the school heartthrob who is also post-production for release during ruary, the film received its international attracting the attention of a former girl- Japan’s Golden Week in April. premiere at Glasgow Film Festival this After winning the audience award at last friend. Currently in post-production, the Contact Akihiro Takeda, Toho month and will be released in the UK and year’s Pia Film Festival and playing in the film is scheduled for Japanese release [email protected] France by Anime Limited later this year. Berlinale’s Forum section, Yoko Yamana- this autumn. Contact Atsumi Shibata, Hakuhodo DY Music ka’s feature debut is screening in the Contact Yasushi Miyamae, Colorbird Laughing Under The & Pictures [email protected] Young Cinema Competition of HKIFF. [email protected] Clouds The fi lm follows a rebellious high-school Dir Katsuyuki Motohiro My Friend ‘A’ girl who leaves her hometown and heads Laplace’s Witch Dir Takahisa Zeze to Tokyo after the boy she thought was Dir Takashi Miike An adaptation of a manga that sold more cool starts dating a girl who is the “embod- than 1.2 million copies, this Samurai-era Based on a novel by Gaku Yakumaru, iment of mass culture”. Based on Japanese writer Keigo Higashi- action title follows three brothers who are Takahisa Zeze’s drama follows a former Contact Pia Film Festival [email protected] no’s bestselling novel, this mystery guardians of a sacred tomb. The trio unite journalist working at a factory, who dis- thriller tells the story of a detective to tackle a giant serpent and covers that his colleague is a man con- It’s Boring Here, Pick Me investigating the bizarre deaths an evil ninja clan. Katsuyuki victed of child murder. While befriending Up of two people at two different Motohiro’s credits include the him in an attempt to write an article, the Dir Ryuichi Hiroki hot springs that appear to be blockbuster Bayside Shakedown journalist is haunted by memories of his connected to a young woman series, and his new film stars own school days when he triggered the Three popular young stars — Ai Hashi- experiencing recurring Sota Fukushi, Yuma Nakayama suicide of a classmate. Toma Ikuta (Close- moto, Mugi Kadowaki and Ryo Narita supernatural phenomena. and Kirato Wakayama. Japa- Knit) and Eita (Dear Doctor) head the cast — head the cast of this female-orientated Directed by Japanese genre- nese release is scheduled for of the fi lm, which is currently in post-pro- drama, directed by Ryuichi Hiroki (Side meister Takashi Miike and March 21. duction. International sales are handled Job, The Miracles Of The Namiya General starring Sho Sakurai (Yat- Contact Shion by co-funder Gaga Corp, who will release Store). Based on the novel by Mariko terman) and Suzu Hirose Komatsu, Shochiku in Japan in May. Yamauchi, the story follows a woman shion_komatsu Contact Haruko Watanabe, Gaga

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(2017) and an entry in the Roman Porno series Aroused By Gymnopedies (2016). Contact Maki Shimizu, Kino Films [email protected] Sakura Guardian In The North Dir Yojiro Takita

Veteran actress Sayuri Yoshinaga (Kabei: Our Mother), Masato Sakai (Hanzawa Naoki series) and Hiroshi Abe (Thermae Romae series) head the cast of this drama about a business- man’s reunion with his estranged mother. The fi lm grossed a decent $2m on its opening weekend in Japan earlier this month. Yojiro Takita’s credits include Oscar-winning drama Depar- tures (2008) and The Last Recipe. Contact Daichi Yashiki, Toei [email protected] One Cut Of The Dead Shoplifters The Name Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda Dir Akihiro Toda Returning to family drama after last Receiving its world premiere as the closing year’s courtroom fi lm The Third Murder, fi lm of this year’s Osaka Asian Film Festival, Hirokazu Kore-eda is shooting a story this adaptation of a Shusuke Michio story about a father and son from a poor fam- stars Kanji Tsuda as a divorced, middle- ily who take in a girl they find on the aged man who encounters a schoolgirl streets. Sakura Ando (100 Yen Love), (Ren Komai) pretending to be his daughter. Lily Franky and Kirin Kiki head the cast Akihiro Toda is a fi lm and theatre director, of Shoplifters, which is produced by screenwriter and producer, who is best Gaga Corp, Fuji Television Network and known for 2014 drama Neko Ni Mikan. AOI Pro. Gaga will also release the fi lm Contact Shinsuke Mae, Glasgow15 theatrically in Japan in June 2018. [email protected] Contact Haruko Watanabe, Gaga [email protected] (Asian territories); One Cut Of The Dead Fanny Beauville, Wild Bunch Dir Shinichiro Ueda The Name [email protected] (international)

Produced by Koji Ichihashi of Enbu Semi- River’s Edge nar, this indie production subverts the con- Dir Isao Yukisada ventions of the zombie genre by morphing into a charming, audience-friendly comedy. Based on Kyoko Okazaki’s classic 1990s Starting with a 37-minute, non-stop single manga of the same name, this ensemble take, it follows a film crew attempting to drama revolves around a high-school make a zombie movie in an abandoned girl and a bullied gay teen who make a warehouse, who fall prey to some real-life gruesome discovery at a nearby river specimens of the undead. The feature debut polluted by industrial waste. Fumi of shorts filmmaker Shinichiro Ueda, the Real Girl Nikaidou (Himizu) and Ryo Yoshizawa What A Wonderful Family! 3… film stars Takayuki Hamatsu, Mao and (Gintama) head the cast of the film, Harumi Syuhama. Nikkatsu is sharing sales hates in real-life girls — she has a which opened in Japan last month, What A Wonderful Family! duties with Third Window Films and blunt manner, skips school and played in Panorama at the Berlinale 3: My Wife, My Life screening the completed fi lm at Filmart. doesn’t have female friends. When and has also been selected for HKIFF’s Dir Yoji Yamada Contact Adam Torel, Third Window Films she’s nice to him, he starts to contem- I See It My Way sec- [email protected] (international); plate her as a real-life girlfriend. tion. Isao Yukisada’s Screening as the closing fi lm of HKIFF, Emico Kawai, Nikkatsu [email protected] Currently in post-production, recent credits the third instalment in Yoji Yamada’s hit the film is being lined up include Narratage comedy series revolves around a house- Real Girl (working title) for Japanese release in the wife who leaves her family to fend for Dir Tsutomu Hanabusa autumn. themselves after the husband berates her Contact Naoko Satoh, for saving money that is then stolen by Ayami Nakajo (Let’s Go, Jets!) and Hayato Nippon TV an intruder. Yui Natsukawa, Masahiko Sano (Mixed Doubles) head the cast of this [email protected] Nishimura, Isao Hashizume, Satoshi comedy drama about a bullied nerd who is Tsumabuki and Yu Aoi star. forced to clean the school swimming pool Contact Shion Komatsu, Shochiku s 2018 What a Wonderful Family 3 - My Wife, My Life. 2018 Sakura Guardian In The North Production Committee The North Production In Guardian Sakura 2018 My Life. Wife, 3 - My Family Wonderful What a 2018 with a classmate who is everything he (Left) River’s Edge [email protected] I

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Becoming Astrid

Becoming Astrid the world’s tallest statue of Jesus. After (Swe-Ger-Den) being disfigured in a site accident, he Dir Pernille Fischer Christensen becomes the centre of media attention as West meets the first person in Poland to receive a face Danish filmmaker Fischer Christensen’s transplant. Szumowska produced Mug debut A Soap won the Berlinale Silver with her longtime cinematographer Bear in 2006. Her fifth featureBecoming Michal Englert and editor Jacek Drosio. Astrid follows Swedish author Astrid She won the 2015 Berlinale Silver Bear Lindgren — who wrote the Pippi Long- for best director with Body, and Mug stocking children’s book series in her stars that film’s Mateusz Kosciukiewicz youth — and her journey to becoming alongside Agnieszka Podsiadlik and Mal- an independent woman following her east gorzata Gorol. affair with a married newspaper pub- European sales agents are out in force at Contact Alexandre Moreau, Memento lisher that resulted in pregnancy. With Films International 2018 European Shooting Star Alba Filmart, with new films ranging from thrillers [email protected] August in the title role, Becoming Astrid and documentaries to animations and recent also features Trine Dyrholm and Berlinale winners. Jean Noh profiles a selection Party Hard, Die Young Magnus Krepper. It made its world (Aust) premiere last month as a Berlinale Dir Dominik Hartl Special Gala. Contact Sara Champagne, TrustNordisk Checkered Ninja (Den) and Anders Mastrup (Help! I’m A Fish). Making its market premiere in [email protected] Dirs Anders Matthesen, Thorbjorn In production, the film is scheduled for Hong Kong, Hartl’s horror-thriller Christoffersen local release on December 25 by Nordisk follows Julia and thousands of her fel- Film. The English-language version will low graduates as they set off for This Danish animation follows teenage be ready by February 2019. an island resort in Croatia for the party boy Aske, who receives a ninja doll from Contact Debra Liang, LevelK of their lives. But one death after his uncle on his return from Thailand. [email protected] another turns the trip into a brutal game The doll turns out to be alive and of survival. The film stars Elisabeth obsessed with revenge against the man Mug (Pol) Wabitsch, Michael Glantschnig who made him. Directors Matthesen and Dir Malgorzata Szumowska and Michael Ostrowski, and is produced Christoffersen collaborated on 2004’s by Florian Gebhardt. Hartl’s credits Terkel In Trouble, and Checkered Ninja is Winner of the Berlinale’s Silver Bear include Beautiful Girl and Attack Of The voiced by Matthesen and Alfred Bjerre grand jury prize, Mug follows Jacek, a Lederhosen Zombies. Larsen. Producers are Trine Heidegaard smalltown guy working at the construc- Contact Moritz Hemminger, Arri Media Checkered Ninja (The Incredible Story Of The Giant Pear) tion site of what is supposed to become [email protected] »

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Vita And Virginia

Postcards From London

Youtopia

The Raft Touch Me Not

Postcards From the 1973 Acali Experiment, when five as a film that sits on the border of reality sis produced for London-based Mirror London (UK) men and six women drifted across the and fiction. Touch Me Not features Productions and Katie Holly for Ire- Dir Steve McLean Atlantic Ocean for 101 days on a raft as Laura Benson, Tomas Lemarquis and land’s Blinder Films. part of a scientific experiment to study Christian Bayerlein as three people who Contact Charlotte Lopez, Protagonist Arriving in London from the provinces, the sociology of violence, aggression and are exploring issues of sex and physical Pictures charlotte@ teenager Jim quickly goes from shy home- sexual attraction. The surviving mem- intimacy. The Romanian writer/direc- protagonistpictures.com less novice to sought-after escort to art bers reunite in a studio where they climb tor also produces alongside Philippe connoisseur. He is riding high until he dis- aboard a reconstruction of the raft to Avril (Hunting Season) and Bianca Youtopia (It) covers he has a rare syndrome that makes share the untold story behind the experi- Oana, who is known for producing doc- Dir Berardo Carboni him faint in the presence of great art. ment. Production designer Simone Grau umentaries. Directed by Steve McLean (1994’s Post- (Dogville) and editor Alexandra Strauss Contact Doc & Film International Featuring 2018 European Shooting Star cards From America), the film stars 2017 (I Am Not Your Negro) worked on the [email protected] Matilda De Angelis (Italian Race) with Screen Star of Tomorrow Harris Dickinson film, which world premieres at Donatella Finocchiaro (The Wedding (Beach Rats) with Raphael Desprez and CPH:DOX in Copenhagen on March 17. Vita And Virginia (UK-Ire) Director) and Alessandro Haber (The Ben Cura, and will close the BFI Flare The film has presold to France (Urban Dir Chanya Button Unknown Woman), Youtopia follows London LGBTQ+ Film Festival on March Distribution) and Switzerland (Xenix). 18-year-old Matilde who turns to an 31. Soledad Gatti-Pascual produces, who Contact Anais Clanet, Wide House Directed and co-written by Chanya But- online role-playing game to cope with executive produced Eran Creevy’s Shifty. [email protected] ton (Burn Burn Burn), Vita And Virginia her bleak life, senile grandmother and Contact The Bureau Sales is about the real-life love affair between debt-ridden mother. There, she finds a [email protected] Touch Me Not acclaimed author Virginia Woolf way to make money through videochat (Rom-Ger-Czech-Bul-Fr) (played by Elizabeth Debicki) and strip shows. Director Carboni (Shooting The Raft (Swe-Den-US-Ger) Dir Adina Pintilie socialite/writer Vita Sackville-West Silvio) mixes live-action and machinima Dir Marcus Lindeen (Gemma Arterton), and how the rela- in this film, which is in post-production Winner of the Golden Bear for best film tionship inspired Woolf ’s novel and set to market premiere in Cannes. Documentary filmmaker Lindeen at this year’s Berlinale, Pintilie’s con- Orlando. Isabella Rossellini and Rupert Contact Geremia Biagiotti, TVCO (2010’s Regretters) takes on the story of frontational debut feature is described Penry-Jones also star. Evangelo Kious- [email protected] ns

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10:00 in Ushimado. Kumi, 84, wanders around the shore A BLUEBIRD IN MY HEART everyday. She believes (France, Belgium) a social welfare facility Horror/suspense. stole her disabled son to 85mins. Alma Cinema. receive a subsidy from Dir: Jeremie Guez. the government. Elderly Key cast: Rolland Moller, Koso runs a small seafood Veerle Baetens, Lola Le store left to her by her Lann. Edited by Paul Lindsell [email protected] deceased husband. This An ex-con finds refuge in documentary poetically a motel run by a single depicts the twilight days of mother and her teenage a village by the sea. daughter Clara. The Hong Kong Arts Centre peace and freedom he has Cinema found in this safe haven 12:00 disappears when Clara is assaulted, forcing him to THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT face his demons. (Belgium) Drama. Hong Kong Arts Centre 90mins. Be For Films. Cinema Dir: Samuel Tilman. Key cast: Fabrizio Rongione, COUCH POTATOES Natache Regnier. (Italy) Comedy. 102mins. David has a wife he loves, True Colours Glorious two adorable children Films. Dir: Francesca FILMART and a tight-knit group Archibugi. Key cast: 90mins. BAC Films. Key cast: Lambert Wilson, of friends. However, on 10:00 Claudio Bisio, Antonia geun heartbroken. Bong- Dir: Babak Jalali. Olivier Gourmet. returning from a trip Truppo, Gaddo Bacchini. WHAT A MAN WANTS soo is the boring and A Native American family 1721: a bold idea is brewing away, David is taken in Portrait of a difficult (South Korea) Comedy. prudish husband of Seok- stuggle with violence and in the head of Philip of for questioning by the father-son relationship. 115mins. Contents Panda geun’s sister, Mi-young. alcohol when news reaches Orleans, Regent of France… police as part of a murder Meeting Room N102-N103, (Next Entertainment His Italian restaurant the reservation that one 11-year-old Louis XV is investigation. Before long it HKCEC World). Dir: Lee business looks lacklustre, of their number has died soon to become king and is evident all is not what it Byeong-heon. Key cast: and so is his marriage, during military service in an exchange of princesses seems behind the facade. DO IT YOURSELF Lee Sung-min, Shin until he meets Jenny, who Afghanistan. would allow the nation Meeting Room N202-N203, (Greece) Action/ Ha-kyun, Song Ji-hyo. later takes a job at Bong- Meeting Room N109-N110, to consolidate peace HKCEC adventure. 98mins. Seok-geun, an soo’s restaurant. Fond of HKCEC with Spain. He therefore Media Luna New Films. ex-rollercoaster designer Jenny’s personality and marries his 12-year-old BEYOND THE SUMMIT Dir: Dimitris Tsilifonis. turned taxi driver, loves good humour, Mi-young THE PRINCE AND THE daughter to the heir (Russia) Sports film, Key cast: Konstantinos his wife, Dam-deok. What decides to hire Jenny as DYBBUK to the Spanish throne, biopic. 106mins. Loco Aspiotis, Makis he also loves is playing a housekeeper for her (Poland, Germany) in exchange for which Films. Dir: Tamara Papadimitriou. with fire on secret nights brother. Documentary. 82mins. Louis XV must marry the Tsotsoria, Yana Polarush, A small-time crook agrees out. But Dam-deok’s Meeting Room N201A, Wide House. Dir: Spanish Infanta. Konstantin Kutuev. to star in a viral video to sudden death leaves Seok- HKCEC Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Meeting Room N201B, HKCEC Based on the true story of restore the public image of Rosolowski. Alexey, a skiing champion a prominent businessman. A cinematic journey on THE TRIBE who was severely injured What he didn’t expect living on the outskirts of by falling back on the the trail of Hollywood (Spain) Comedy. when he was only 16 and is that he would end up Kiev, is planning to move to flamboyant irony and filmmaker and “human 90mins. Film Factory had both legs amputated. fighting for his life after the Berlin with her boyfriend, brilliant wit that defined chameleon” Michal Entertainment. Dir: Meeting Room N201B, HKCEC director of the viral video, a a German photographer. him and his work. Waszynski. Fernando Colomo. Key powerful gangster, decides Two bewildered, lost young Meeting Room N101A, HKCEC Meeting Room N111-N112, cast: Carmen Machi, Paco CINDERELLA THE CAT he is an expendable part of people who meet at a HKCEC Leon. (Italy) Animation. his plan. crucial point in their lives. KNUCKLEBALL Virginia, who works as a 86mins. Rai Com. Dir: Meeting Room N104-N105, Meeting Room N202-N203, (Canada) Horror/suspense. RESINA cleaning lady but whose Ivan Cappiello, Marino HKCEC HKCEC 90mins. Telefilm Canada. (Italy) Drama. 90mins. true calling is street dance, Guarnieri, Alessandro Dir: Michael Peterson. Wide. Dir: Renzo is reunited with the son Rak, Dario Sansone. FALLING THE HAPPY PRINCE Key cast: Michael Ironside, Carbonera. she gave up for adoption: Set in the near future, (Ukraine) Drama. (Germany, Belgium, Italy) Kathleen Munroe, Munro A kaleidoscope of characters Fidel, an executive who has in the infamous Port 105mins. TVCO. Dir: Tragicomedy. 105mins. Chambers. gives irony and rhythm to lost it all, even his memory. of Naples, aboard a Marina Stepanska. Key Beta Cinema. Dir: Rupert Twelve-year-old Henry finds this tale of a small world Theatre 2, HKCEC magical ship: Cinderella cast: Andriy Seletskiy, Everett. Key cast: Colin himself at the centre of a facing climate change, is the daughter of the Dasha Plahtiy, Oleg Firth, Emily Watson, maelstrom of terror, and a and the determination of a WHAT A MAN WANTS philanthropic ship owner, Mosiychuk. Colin Morgan, Edwin dark family legacy, when young woman discovering See box, above murdered by criminals Anton, a former child- Thomas, Rupert Everett. his secretive grandfather again the beauty of music. with the complicity of 11:45 prodigy composer who The last days of legendary dies suddenly in the night. Meeting Room N209-N210, Cinderella’s stepmother. could not handle his writer Oscar Wilde — and Meeting Room N206-N207, HKCEC INLAND SEA Meeting Room N104-N105, obsession with music, the ghosts that haunted HKCEC (Japan, US) Documentary. HKCEC returns to Ukraine after him as he lived them THE ROYAL EXCHANGE 122mins. Laboratory X. a long period in rehab for out in Europe. His body LAND (Belgium) Drama. Dir: Kazuhiro Soda. EVERYDAY HERO, drug and alcohol problems. ailing and heavy, his mind (Italy, Mexico, France, 100mins. Playtime. Wai-chan, 86, is one of the EVERYBODY’S DREAM Katia, an ordinary girl spinning, Wilde survives Netherlands) Drama. 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Guangdong Southern Corporation. Dir: Shen Lead TV & Film Ko-Shang. Communication Company. Features eight couples and Dir: Zheng Hua. Key cast: their daily conversations. Sun Hongtao, Ru Ping, Meeting Room N109-N110, Ai Liya. HKCEC A supervisor at the Heavy Industries Group steps in MONKEY BUSINESS to become the new captain (Hong Kong) Drama. of the poverty alleviation 30mins. Hong Kong team in LiTan Village, Arts Centre. Dir: Wong Yang Xi. In nearly two Hoi-yin, Suen Sui-hung, years, he helps the village Wong Chung-yan, Wong overcome poverty and Ka-man, Chan Hoi-yu. achieve prosperity. But Three young people get a tragedy strikes when he chance to become rich. In suffers a sudden heart their temporary shelter in attack and dies at his desk. an old apartment, they start Meeting Room N101A, HKCEC a dangerous back-alley business. KOYAA. AN ANIMATION Meeting Room N211-N212, SERIES FILMART HKCEC (Slovenia-Croatia) of Pietro and Alba. The Tung Siu Wai, Lo Ka Yi, 14:00 45mins. Summerside Ryo goes to Hokkaido relatives are forced to live Lam Kwan Fai. PILED CLOUD International. Dir: Kolja COLORS OF WIND knowing that his together under the same Meeting Room N201B, HKCEC (Hong Kong) Drama. Saksida. (Japan, South Korea) doppelganger magician roof for two days and two 26mins. Hong Kong Arts Koyaa and his friend, the Drama. 119mins. is missing. Ryo realises nights, with no way out. DIFFERENT KINDS OF RAIN Centre. Dir: Wong Cheuk- wise Mr Raven, live on a Mirovision. Dir: Jaeyong Yuri was also the Meeting Room N111-N112, (Germany) Drama. man. rocky ledge high above the Kwak. Key cast: Yuki magician’s lover and he HKCEC 91mins. Media Luna New Ex-sailor Lam Dong has clouds. Koyaa stumbles into Furukawa, Takemi Fujii, learns magic. A story that Films. Dir: Isa Prahl. retired and lives alone comical adventures when Naoto Takenaka. crosses over two identities, CALL ME MRS CHAN Key cast: Bjarne Madel, in the city. He sub-lets the everyday objects that Yuri leaves Ryo with illusion and magic. (Hong Kong) Drama. Bibiana Beglau, Emma his apartment to Zheng surround him come to life mysterious words. Theatre 1, HKCEC 16mins. Hong Kong Arts Bading, Louis Hofmann. Yang, a film student from and begin to act in all sorts Centre. Dir: Chan Hau- Suddenly, the door is locked. Beijing. of weird and wacky ways. chun, Chui Chi-yin. A boy has shut himself Meeting Room N211-N212, Meeting Room N201A, HKCEC socially different. Having 13:50 Mrs Chan works in a in. His family stays out. HKCEC moved to east London, public housing estate, In trying to cope with the LULLABY KILLER he quickly faces violent SAMSON clearing the garbage every situation, the door to his SOLIS (Poland) Thriller. gentrification. It doesn’t (South Africa) Action/ day except for the first day room increasingly mirrors (UK) Sci-fi/fantasy. 100mins. TVP Polish take long for his darkest adventure. 130mins. Pure of the Chinese New Year. his father’s, mother’s and 90mins. Cinema Public Television. impulses to emerge. Flix/Quality Flix. Dir: For the past 10 years, her sister’s own lives. Management Group. Dir: Dir: Krzysztof Lang. Meeting Room N102-N103, Bruce Macdonald. Key quiet dedication to the Meeting Room N104-N105, Carl Strathie. Key cast: Key cast: Andrzej Chyra, HKCEC cast: Billy Zane, Jackson building has brought her HKCEC Steven Ogg, Alice Lowe. Tomasz Schuchardt. Rathbone, Rutger Hauer, no respect, only back pain. When Troy Holloway wakes For years many people WE Taylor James. Meeting Room N211-N212, I MISS YOU WHEN I SEE YOU up to find himself aboard a have been disappearing (Netherlands) Drama. Out of the pages of ancient HKCEC (Hong Kong) Drama. drifting escape pod shooting in Cracow. Detective 100mins. Wide. Dir: Rene scripture arises the first 90mins. Heart towards the sun, he quickly Karski constructs his own Eller. superhero saga — that CHRISTMAS BLOOD Productions. Dir: Simon realises the true terror of hypothesis of a serial killer, During a scorching summer of a child born with (Norway) Horror/ Chung. Key cast: Jamie his situation. Commander contrary to the convictions in a Belgian-Dutch border supernatural strength in suspense. 104mins. Reel Mak, Rene Lam. Roberts leads a rescue party of his superiors. village, eight teenagers play 1200bc who, as an adult, Suspects. Dir: Reinert Jamie re-encounters his old to save him. Meeting Room N111-N112, games of discovery to break leads his oppressed tribe Kiil. Key cast: Stig Henrik school friend, Kevin, who Meeting Room N101A, HKCEC HKCEC the listless monotony. They against the mighty empire Hoff, Sondre Krogtoft has been suffering from challenge each other and of his day. Though seduced Larsen. depression, and must make SUPERGRID SILENT NIGHT themselves and pretty soon by women and wine, his For the past 13 years, a a choice between following (Canada) 80mins. (Poland) Comedy. their sexual curiosity starts feats of might strike fear killer has struck every his heart or society. Telefilm Canada. Dir: 100mins. Intramovies. to blur the lines between into the hearts of his Christmas Eve. Police Hong Kong Arts Centre Lowell Dean. Key cast: Dir: Piotr Domalewski. right and wrong. enemies. In the end, only investigators Thomas Rasch Cinema Leo Fafard, Marshall Key cast: Dawid Meeting Room N209-N210, one God can stand in this and Terje Hansent try to Williams, Natalie Krill. Ogrodnik, Tomasz Zietek. HKCEC tale of seduction, revenge solve the mystery before KUNG FOOD In the near future, two Adam visits his family at and supernatural might. the killer strikes again. A (China) Action/adventure. brothers are forced to make 12:15 Christmas. No one knows Meeting Room N201A, HKCEC group of friends celebrating 30mins. Yi Animation. a mysterious cargo run on about his secret plans and POSTCARDS FROM LONDON the holiday do not realise a Dir: Haipeng Sun. the dangerous road that 14:00 the real reasons for his visit. (UK) Comedy. 87mins. crazy killer is on the loose. Super Bao, an innocent claimed the life of their Meeting Room N109-N110, The Bureau Sales. Dir: A CASA TUTTI BENE Meeting Room N102-N103, and passionate steamed sister. HKCEC Steve McLean. Key cast: (Italy) Drama. 105mins. HKCEC stuffed bun, goes through Meeting Room N201B, HKCEC Harris Dickinson. Indie Sales Company. untold hardships and TRENDY From shy novice to sought- Dir: Gabriele Muccino. COLORS OF WIND grows into a great hero who THE VANISHED (UK) Thriller. 96mins. after escort and artist’s Key cast: Pierfrancesco See box, above saves the world of foods. (South Korea) Thriller. UDI — Urban muse, Jim would be the Favino, Stefano Accorsi, Meeting Room N204-N205, 99mins. Contents Panda Distribution International. toast of the town if it wasn’t Claudia Gerini. CREAM OF MOVIE I (HONG HKCEC (Next Entertainment Dir: Louis Lagayette. Key for his annoying affliction, An unexpected storm KONG DESIGN INSTITUTE) World). Dir: Lee Chang- cast: Lachlan Nieboer, which causes him to faint strands a family gathered (Hong Kong) Drama. LOVE TALK hee. Key cast: Kim Sang- Haluk Bilginer, Alan Ford. in the presence of great art. to celebrate the 50th 65mins. Hong Kong (Taiwan) Documentary. kyung, Kim Kang-woo. Richard is a singular man, Meeting Room N201A, HKCEC wedding anniversary Design Institute. Dir: 90mins. Cnex Studio When the president of a »

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Convention and Exhibition out who stole the corpse. hunter is forced to go to believes appearance means Meeting Room N204-N205, Theatre 1, HKCEC Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wanchai, Hong Kong Meeting Room N202-N203, London on a manhunt for everything and heavy HKCEC 18:00 Filmart stand: 1A-B19 HKCEC a disavowed CIA operative. make-up is beautiful. Meeting Room N201B, HKCEC Meeting Room N211-N212, NOGIZAKA46 MEETS ASIA 7:20 ONCE A WEEK Editorial WEREWOLF GAME LOST HKCEC (SINGAPORE VERSION) (Dominican Republic) Tel +852 2582 8958 EDEN 1 BE WITH YOU (Japan) Documentary. Romance. 92mins. Editor Matt Mueller, matt. (Japan) Horror/suspense. (South Korea) Romance. IMPERFECT AGE 60mins. M-ON! Intramovies. Dir: Matias [email protected] 105mins. Crei. Dir: Shinya 132mins. Lotte (Italy) Drama. 96mins. Entertainment. Dir: Bize. Key cast: Eva Arias, Asia editor Liz Shackleton, Ayabe. Key cast: Rena Entertainment. Dir: Lee Intramovies. Dir: Ulisse Tsutomu Iwashita. Key Josue Guerrero. [email protected] Takeda. Jang-hoon. Key cast: So Lendaro. Key cast: Marina cast: Nogizaka46. Manuel and Julia meet Deputy Asia editor and Hiromi is locked up in Ji-sub, Son Ye-jin. Occhionero, Paola Calliari, Meeting Room N101B, HKCEC and spend an intense Korea correspondent an unknown room with Woo Jin takes care of his Anna Valle, Anita Kavros. night together. They have Jean Noh, hjnoh2007@ gmail.com nine classmates. They son following the death of Camilla is a good girl, with OH! MILLION FIST! feelings that go beyond Contributing writer (Asia) become either “Villager” his wife. Before she died high grades and a dream to (Hong Kong) Drama. physical attraction but Silvia Wong, screenasia@ or “Werewolf ” and vote to she promised she would be become a ballet dancer. She 7mins. Hong Kong Arts both of them are married. yahoo.com kill someone in the bloody back on a rainy day one and her friend Sara try out Centre. Dir: Huge Cho. Meeting Room N109-N110, Reviews editor Finn Werewolf Game. year later. True to her word for an important audition. Having practised martial HKCEC Halligan, finn.halligan@ Meeting Room N101B, HKCEC she reappears but does not Sara passes but Camilla arts for years, dancer screendaily.com remember anything. doesn’t and blames Sara. Hugh Cho develops a ON HAPPINESS ROAD Group head of production WHEN MARGAUX MEETS Meeting Room N102-N103, Meeting Room N109-N110, choreography based on (Taiwan) Animation. and art Mark Mowbray, MARGAUX HKCEC HKCEC fight scenarios. 111mins. Ablaze Image. mark.mowbray@screendaily. com (France) Drama. 97mins. Meeting Room N211-N212, Dir: Sung Shin-Yin. Indie Sales Company. BLACK SUMMER JUGGERNAUT HKCEC Key cast: Wei Te-Sheng, Sub-editors Paul Lindsell, Jon Lysons, Tim Mawdsley, Dir: Sophie Fillieres. (South Korea) Drama. (Canada) Organised crime. Gwei Lun-Mei. Adam Richmond Key cast: Sandrine 111mins. Mirovision. Dir: 115mins. Telefilm Canada. RESURRECTION Chi earned her American Kiberlain, Agathe Lee Won-young. Key Dir: Daniel Di Marco. Key (Belgium) Drama. dream after persevering Advertising Bonitzer, Melvil Poupaud. cast: Woo Jihyeon, Lee cast: Amanda Crew, Jack 110mins. TVCO. Dir: with her studies in Tel +1 323 654 2301 Margaux, 20, meets Geonwoo. Kesy, Ty Olsson. Kristof Hoornaert. Key Taiwan. Following her Sales consultant Margaux, 45. They cannot Jihyeon works part-time at An outlaw returns home, cast: Johan Leysen, grandmothers’ death, she Ingrid Hammond, help but be drawn to a university writing and violently obsessed with the Gilles De Schryver, Kris returns to her family on [email protected] each other as they are the making films. One day, notion that his mother’s Cuppens. Happiness Road. President, North America exact same person at two as he holds an audition death was not a suicide. A hermit who takes in a Theatre 2, HKCEC Nigel Daly, +1 323 654 different ages. for his next film, he meets Meeting Room N104-N105, half-naked young man is 2301 / 213 447 5120, 18:15 Meeting Room N206-N207, Geonu. They become close HKCEC faced with a dilemma. [email protected] HKCEC as they work together and Meeting Room N202-N203, GATAO 2: RISE OF THE KING International account manager Raphael are confused by unfamiliar LET THE GIRLS PLAY HKCEC (Taiwan) Action/ Bechakjian, +44 90 050 WINE CALLING emotions. (France) Comedy. 90mins. adventure. 127mins. 0799, raphael bechakjian@ (France) Documentary. Meeting Room N101A, HKCEC Indie Sales Company. TOTO Swallow Wings Films screendaily.com 90mins. WTFilms. Dir: Julien Hallard. (Philippines) Comedy. Co. Dir: Yen Cheng-Kuo. Production manager Dir: Bruno Sauvard. GROW WITH LOVE Key cast: Max Boublil, 115mins. BidSlate. Dir: Key cast: Shih Hsien Jonathon Cooke, jonathon. Over the course of a year, (China) Drama. 90mins. Vanessa Guide. John Paul Su. Key cast: Wang, Collin Chou, [email protected] we follow some of the China Film Promotion 1969: forced to plan his Sid Lucero, Thou Reyes, Cheng, Jen-Shuo. Sales co-ordinator and world’s most exciting new International. Dir: Zeng newspaper’s annual fair, a Liza Dino, Blake Boyd. Conflict in the world of festival manager Rebecca wine growers, from harvest Jianying. Key cast: Xufan, journalist comes up with A Filipino is determined to dangerous gangsters. Moran, +44 20 8102 0829, rebecca.moran@screendaily. to bottling. Dai Jiaxi, Zhang Chi, a crazy idea — organise obtain a US visa. But when Meeting Room N201A, HKCEC com Meeting Room N209-N210, Liang Cuishan. the first women’s football his schemes put the lives of Commercial director HKCEC Love stories of four couples. match in France. his loved ones in danger, he PORORO: DINOSAUR Scott Benfold, scott. Meeting Room N206-N207, Meeting Room N111-N112, must re-evaluate the cost of ISLAND ADVENTURE [email protected] 15:45 HKCEC HKCEC his dream. (South Korea) Animation. Publishing director FATHER TO SON Meeting Room N209-N210, 80mins. Ocon. Dir: Kim Nadia Romdhani (Taiwan) Action/ HORIZON LOST CEMETERIES HKCEC Hyunho. Managing director, adventure. 115mins. (Hong Kong) Drama. (Hong Kong) Drama. Pororo meets a dinosaur publishing and events 16:20 Ablaze Image. Dir: 30mins. Hong Kong Arts 26mins. Hong Kong Arts who remembers nothing but Alison Pitchford Ya-Chuan Hsiao. Centre. Dir: Kong Ka-yiu Centre. Dir: Ho Ying-kuen. THE DMZ his name. The pair must Chief executive officer, MBI Van Pao-Te, 60, is suffering Rony. Tung and Yan, brothers (South Korea) Horror/ work together to save their Conor Dignam from a serious illness. Lee Chi-ho believes in from a single-parent family, suspense. 94mins. friends from aliens. Printer G.L. Graphic & Printing Ltd, level 1-8, Instead of getting treatment, the Flat Earth theory. relied on their mother. A Mirovision. Dir: Oh Meeting Room N101A, HKCEC Howard Factory Building, he goes to Japan to look for He debates with his son’s year after she passed away, In-chun. Key cast: Joo 18:30 66 Tsun Yip Street, Kwun his father who abandoned teacher and decides to prove the government implements Min-ha, Kim Jun-Seop. Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong him 50 years ago. At the it is true. He must borrow a plan to demolish the A female cop and an LENSES ON HER HEART Published by Media same time, a young man an old man’s spaceship to public estates. escaped prisoner both tread (KIRAKIRA MEGANE) Business Insight Ltd from Hong Kong somehow validate the theory. Meeting Room N211-N212, on mines during a chase. (Japan) Drama. 120mins. (MBI) Zetland House, related to Van’s past arrives Meeting Room N211-N212, HKCEC Meeting Room N201A, HKCEC SDP. Dir: Kazutoshi 5-25 Scrutton Street, London EC2A 4HJ in Taiwan. HKCEC Inudo. Key cast: Hiroto 16:30 Hong Kong Arts Centre LOVE X DOC Kanai, Chizuru Ikewaki, Subscription customer services +44 330 333 9414, Cinema I AM NOT PRETTY (Japan) Romance. ISIS — A NEW FOUND BASE Masanobu Ando. [email protected]. (Hong Kong) Animation. 114mins. Asmik Ace. IN AFGHANISTAN A painful love story for all 16:00 com 6mins. Hong Kong Arts Dir: Osamu Suzuki. Key (India) Action/adventure. the broken hearts. ALL THE DEVIL’S MEN Centre. Dir: Keung Yin-ni, cast: Yo Yoshida, Hiroshi 135mins. Atlantic Films. Meeting Room N102-N103, (UK) Action/adventure. Sin Man-ting. Tamaki, Shuhei Nomura. Dir: Yuvraj Kumar. Key HKCEC

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