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John Woo’s Manhunt REVIEW A Lullaby To The Sorrowful Mystery ’s eight-hour epic is Loev tracks down its cast confusing but mesmerising BY LIZ SHACKLETON Assassins and will also appear in » Page 6 Buyers fall for Chinese star Hanyu and ’s upcoming co-pro- ’s Masaharu Fukuyama have duction The Great Wall, alongside Final print daily been confi rmed as the fi rst leading Matt Damon and . Fuku- India’s Loev This is Screen’s final print edition cast for ’s upcoming yama is known to international for Filmart 2016. For continued BY JEAN NOH action thriller Manhunt. audiences for his role in Hirokazu coverage, see ScreenDaily.com France’s Wide has secured a raft Backed by Hong Kong’s Media and Masaharu Fukuyama Kore-eda’s Like Father, Like Son. of deals on Indian gay-love Asia, the fi lm is based on Japanese Media Asia is unveiling its new story Loev. Writer-director Sud- novel Hot Pursuit, from pulp fic- a script written by Chan Hing Kai slate at Filmart today. The company hanshu Saria’s feature debut has tion writer Juko Nishimura, about () and Gordon is also selling Jazz Boon’s crime Huace dives sold to Italy (The Open Reel) and a prosecutor who is framed for Chan (Painted Skin). A third major thriller Line Walker, starring Louis Poland (Film Village) on top of robbery and rape and sets out on a cast member will be announced Koo and ; ’s into Korean previously announced sales to Ger- mission to clear his name. It was soon and production is expected to Three; ’s period action many (Pro Fun Media), fi rst adapted into a 1976 Japanese start in late May. title God Of War; and Johnnie To- remake (Swallow Wings) and Estonia fi lm, titled Kimi Yo Fundo No Kawa Zhang has starred in Chinese produced crime thriller , (Menufi lmid). Wo Watare, starring Ken Takakura. hits such as The Taking Of Tiger which opens Hong Kong Interna- BY JEAN NOH Loev made its world premiere Woo is directing the reboot from Mountain and Bodyguards And tional Film Festival next week. Huace Union Pictures has in Tallinn Black Nights Film Festi- announced it picked up Chinese val’s inaugural Tridens first fea- remake rights to Korean fi lm Can- tures competition. It also screens ola on the strength of its script. at the SXSW festival and is set Thunder, Poisson storm the world Directed by Chang, whose The for its UK premiere at the BFI Target was at Cannes in 2014, the Flare: London LGBT Film Festival BY MICHAEL ROSSER ham, who undertook a dangerous Thunder Communications, and original Canola is produced by Zio next week. ’s Thunder Communications mission to investigate mysterious previously general manager, Entertainment and set for release International and the UK’s Poisson biological weapons that were used China, for Disney TV, said: “Work- in Korea this May. Veteran actress Rouge Pictures are joining forces against the Chinese. ing with writers and directors from Youn Yuh-jung (The Bacchus Lady) to develop a slate of Anglo-Chinese Jonathan Finnigan is attached the UK is a real opportunity to stars as a legendary free diver on China 3D gives films aimed at the international to direct a script written by Andy push Chinese films into interna- Jeju Island whose granddaughter, market. Briggs (The Philadelphia Experi- tional markets.” played by Kim Go-eun (Coin Locker notice on Up to five productions are ment), which has already attracted Christopher Granier-Deferre, Girl), returns mysteriously after a $13m thriller planned by the two companies, of interest from several buyers. founder of Poisson Rouge Pictures, 12-year disappearance. which the first is The Proving Other projects selected for added: “With China on the cusp of The script was developed by Hong Kong-based China 3D Ground, an action adventure set in development are a Cold War becoming the single biggest mar- Chang and Huace Union Pictures’ Digital Entertainment launched a Cambridge and northern China in thriller and a road ket in the world, this is an exciting Korean division director Im Gun slate of six titles here at Filmart, 1948. The story is inspired by the movie. way to develop ideas that are a Joong. International sales are now including $13m (HK$100m) life of biochemist Joseph Need- Charles Lei, founder and CEO of natural fi t for that market.” being handled by Mirovision. detective crime thriller The Death Notice (working title). Directed by Philip Yung (Port Of Call), A-list actors are expected To, Hui join Macao film fest The One to invest in HK talent to be cast in the co-production BY LIZ SHACKLETON ductions and Culture Association, BY LIZ SHACKLETON Kong in mid-April. It is also invest- with Chinese streaming platform Johnnie To and have been and is set to run December 8-13. Former Tomson Entertainment ing in a second instalment, Good iQiyi. named ambassadors for the first The event will feature a competi- executive Yvonne Chuang and Take 2, also produced by Tsang. The Death Notice was International Film Festival and tion section, gala screenings, a focus fund manager Barry Lau have co- Chuang and Lau, who is originally published as an internet Awards Macao (IFFA Macao). on Asian genre cinema, “best of the founded a fi nance and distribution backing the venture through novel and adapted into an online Both film-makers have a long fests” Panorama and a retrospective company, The One Entertainment Adamas Asset Management, are drama. association with — Hui that sees 10 East Asian genre direc- Group, which aims to invest in looking for projects in which to Also on China 3D’s slate is spent part of her childhood living tors choose their favourite non-East Hong Kong talent. invest and will establish a distribu- The Menu, an adaptation of in the city, while To has filmed Asian and non-US genre films. It The company’s first project is tion team in 2017. HKTV’s series; 29+1, which is more than 10 movies there, includ- will also have an industry platform, omnibus film Good Take!, pro- The first instalment of Good based on Kearen Pang’s theatre ing , Isabella and Vengeance. including a projects workshop. duced by , comprising Take! comprises short films production of the same name; As previously announced, “The festival aims to become a short fi lms from Hong Kong fi lm- directed by Derek Tsang, Henri and Lawrence Cheng’s Diary Of Marco Müller has been appointed new hub in Greater China that can makers. Wong, Wong Chun, Vernie Yeung A Small Man 3. director of the festival, which is build industry bridges between the The One Entertainment has exec- and Wong Ching Po. Cast includes Silvia Wong hosted by the Macau government region and the rest of the world,” utive produced and is distributing , and and Macau Film & Television Pro- said Mueller. the film, which will open in Hong Chau Pakho. News

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Italy’s Udine Far East Film up by Asian Shadows Festival, in partnership with MIA — the International Audiovisual the Salt Planet By Liz ShAckLetOn Junrui Cultural Com- in HKIFF, to Les Acacias. The Market in Rome — is launching Hong Kong-based Asian Shadows munication Co, the film will Paris-based company also distrib- Focus Asia as a market to take Central Park lands has picked up worldwide rights receive its Asian premiere in the uted two previous Wang Bing place April 27-29 during the on The Salt Planet excluding China and North Amer- Young Cinema Competition at the films in France. festival. ica to Johnny Ma’s Old Stone, upcoming Hong Kong Interna- In addition, Zhang Yang’s Paths Known for showcasing more By JeAn nOh which premiered at the recent tional Film Festival (HKIFF). It Of The Soul has been sold to mainstream and commercial South Korea’s Central Park Films, Berlinale. also has two press and industry Japan’s Moviola, which is planning Asian films than usually seen at formerly specialising in short-film The film, which marks Ma’s screenings at Filmart. Producers a summer 2016 release. Asian most Western festivals, the 18th sales, is launching a feature slate feature debut, follows a taxi driver on the film include Wu Xianjian, Shadows has also sold Pema Tsed- Udine will run April 22-30. that includes Lee Jun Hak’s The in a small Chinese town who faces Chi-an Lin, Jing Wang and Sarah en’s Tharlo to Icarus Films for the The 1st Focus Asia will take Salt Planet. losing his job, friends and family Stallard. US and Canada as well as Day For place at the city’s Cinema Featuring child stars Park Seo- after refusing to follow usual Asian Shadows has also sold Night for the UK, where it will Visionario with screenings, yeon and Park Hee-geon, the film practice and takes responsibility French rights to Wang Bing docu- receive a theatrical release. Paths research panels and meetings. follows a little girl who is sent to for a traffic accident. mentary Ta’ang, which also pre- Of The Soul and Tharlo are also Jean Noh live in the countryside with her Produced by C2M Media and miered in Berlin and is screening screening at HKIFF. grandparents. She makes friends with a little boy of a different skin colour who works on a salt farm. Putrama tuta set to unwrap happy Birthday Taiwan classics Central Park Films is also tak- ing some of their most notable By Liz ShAckLetOn The script was written by Ilya disaster movie about a volcanic sail for Japan shorts and compiling them into Indonesian director Putrama Tuta Sigma, who also wrote Tuta’s eruption for Korea’s CJ Entertain- omnibus films for sale. Set to be is set to start shooting romantic award-winning 2011 debut, Boy’s ment, which is investing in Indo- By SiLviA WOng completed this summer, Urban thriller Happy Birthday Every Day Diary. The cast is headed by Indo- nesian film. Japan’s Shochiku has picked up Evil is a compilation of 12th Assis- in Jakarta on April 17. nesian TV star Anjasmara Prase- Badalu previously produced three restored classics from the tant Deacon directed by Jae-hyun Produced by John Badalu and tya, who will play the writer, and Indonesian films such as Paul Taiwan Film Institute, including Jang, Marionette directed by Dewi Piay through The United actress Fahrani Pawaka Empel, Agusta’s Parts Of The Heart, Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Daughter Of Seung-yeon Cho, and Mould Team Of Art, the film revolves who previously starred in Joko selected for Rotterdam in 2012, The Nile, which recently pre- directed by Chun-kyu Park. around a dying writer attempting Anwar’s Kala. and Mouly Surya’s What They miered at Berlinale Classics, Neighbors comprises award- to write his masterpiece who real- Tuta’s credits as director also Don’t Talk About When They Talk King Hu’s The Dragon Inn and winning shorts on a similar theme, ises that he is already dead and include rockumentary Noah Awal About Love, which played at A Touch Of Zen. framed with an overall narrative. living inside his own story. Semula. He is also developing a Sundance in 2013. The two martial-arts films by Hu, which premiered in Cannes Classics 2014 and 2015 respec- Musicals Pandemic spreads tively, have also been sold to Ger- across Asia many (Rapid Eye Movies), the UK festival tunes (Eureka Entertainment) and US Los Angeles-based Content Media (Criterion). The deals were bro- into Filmart has closed deals throughout Asia on kered by Eric Chou for the Taiwan Artistic director Hong-Joon Kim three titles. The films include Film Institute. and staff are here scouting for the Pandemic, set in the near future Formerly known as Chinese first edition of Chungmuro where a virus has overtaken the Film Archive (CTFA), the International Musical Film Festival, planet, with deals including Japan institute was established by the set to launch July 6-11 in Seoul. (CCC/Culture Entertainment) and Ministry of Culture in 2014. It has “Musical films will be our main Korea (Entermode). Other titles to since restored 16 classic films, content, but we’re aiming for a score sales include sci-fi Higher including Lee Hsing’s The Young convergence in cinema and Power and supernatural horror Don’t Ones and Chen Chun-Liang’s Love performance art, so we’re looking Knock Twice, starring Katee Sackhoff. for fiction and documentaries as In Chilly Spring, which starred well as performances that can go See ScreenDaily.com for full list. Taiwanese singer Feng Fei-Fei in with screenings that reflect this,” Michael Rosser her big-screen acting debut. The said Kim, former head of restored films are available in 2K Chungmuro International Film and 4K digital format. Festival and Bucheon (then tled crime thriller and Yu Zhong’s Here at Filmart, the Taiwan Pucheon) International Fantastic Butterfly woman tops Mei Ah slate coming-of-age drama Growing Up. Film Institute is relaunching Film Festival. By SiLviA WOng who is half butterfly, directed by Doris Wong’s The Travel Diary Super Citizen Ko by Wan Jen, a Chungmu Art Centre is to Hong Kong-based Mei Ah Enter- Ma and produced by Manfred is about a girl who cycles across pioneering Taiwan New Wave serve as the main location with tainment Group has unveiled a Wong. The effects-heavy film was Taiwan in search of another girl director. The film, which brought screenings also held at slate of films here, including the shot mainly in Budapest and stars who looks just like her, while other Lin Yang the best actor award at Dongdaemun Design Plaza. The latest works by directors Zhang Li and Vivian Dawson. It is new titles include -pro- the 1995 Golden Horse Awards, is festival plans to programme around 30 films over 12 sections. and Philip Yung. based on a novel by Jun. duced family adventure Girl Of about the political history of Tai- Jean Noh Butterfly Cemetery 3D is a $12m Wong is also the producer of The Big House and Chan Hing Ka’s wan following the imposition of fantasy thriller, about a woman another two projects, Yung’s unti- untitled film about bras. martial law in 1947.

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Reviewed by David D’Arcy HKIFF Auteurs In Ta’ang, Wang Bing follows families from a population fleeing the war that has been smouldering on the border HK-Fr. 2016. 147mins between Burma and China. In this portrait of despair, he Director Wang Bing finds some radiant humanity in an unseen people. Wang Production companies usually makes serious demands of his audience, but by the Chinese Shadows, standards of this director — who made Crude Oil (2008), Wil Productions a 14-hour documentary on petroleum extraction —Ta’ang International sales is short, not even three hours. It also has moments of stun- Asian Shadows, contact@ ning beauty as it sits and walks through the mud — rather chineseshadows.com than fog — of war, with victims of a brutal conflict. Producers Wang Yang, The Ta’ang, also known as the Palaung, are a dis- Mao Hui placed people, fleeing from their own war with the Bur- Executive producer A Lullaby To The Sorrowful Mystery mese government. We encounter women in flight with Wang Di their children, dressed in distinctive greyish skirts and Cinematography Shan jackets, wearing hats held down with silver bands. They Xiaohui, Wang Bing Reviewed by Jonathan Romney do not carry much more property than those clothes, Editors Adam Kerby, MAsterclAss although some have mobile phones. Wang Bing Many films by Filipino director Lav Diaz take place Cinema cannot get more iconic than this, as the Sound Emmanuel Soland wholly or partly in forests — and the feeling of being lost Phil-Sing. 2016. 485mins Ta’ang, made itinerant by war, create shelter with what- in one has never been so bewitchingly acute as inA Lull- Director/screenplay/ ever they can find. Wang watches as a group tries to aby To The Sorrowful Mystery, his latest fictional contem- editor Lav Diaz build a frame for a tarpaulin roof with bamboo poles plation of the history and politics of the Philippines. Production companies scavenged from what grows along the road. The poles Clocking in at just over eight hours — although it is Epicmedia Productions, tumble into a pile before any improvised structure can hardly the longest from this diehard of durational cinema Ten17P, Sine Olivia Pilipinas, stand. It is the myth of Sisyphus, in Southeast Asia. — this confusing, slightly patchy but overall mesmerising Protokol, Akanga Film Asia As the sounds of fighting move closer, the Ta’ang are weave of narratives, and of history and myth, will be a International sales back on the road, marching from a camp to destinations harder sell than the already tough Norte, The End Of His- Films Boutique, info@ inside China’s Yunnan province. Sometimes they har- tory (2013), a mere bagatelle at five hours. While only the filmsboutique.com vest sugar cane, but they are essentially the walking most audacious distributors will approach, festivals should Producers Bianca poor. Wang’s signature contemplative shots make Fred prepare to clear the schedules for an ambitious statement Balbuena, Wiseman seem hurried. His extended observations by one of contemporary cinema’s authentic radicals. Co-executive producers remind us of a perennial truth about war. For combat- The multi-strand ensemble drama is set ostensibly in Charo Santos-Concio, ants and for the refugees, time is experienced through 1896-97, during the days of the Philippine Revolution, Malou Santos, Marc long periods of inactivity and sudden bursts of urgency. although there is an increasingly cavalier poetic licence Tanunliong, Empyreal, It is an odd paradox here that Wang’s camera, viewing with costumes, props and even dialogue when it comes Henry Wee the Ta’ang at tactile range, is remarkably steadfast, cap- to historical verisimilitude. The film begins with a young Co-producers Jeremy turing moments of mothers talking, children playing man, a musician and singer, taking leave of his beloved Chua, Fran Borgia and conversations halting when distant artillery fire gets before going to join the revolution — not before witness- Cinematography Larry louder. Like Wang’s other films,Ta’ang is about people ing the execution of revolutionary author Jose Rizal. Manda enduring circumstances beyond their control. War is the This young man, seemingly the film’s protagonist, Production designer extreme version of that, although we never see the con- drops abruptly out of the action, as so often happens in Popo Diaz flict itself. Here the film-maker gives us collateral dam- Diaz films — but there are more than enough characters, Main cast , age, family style, one step at a time. including some real-life figures, to keep the action going. John Lloyd Cruz, Hazel Photographed in magnificently textured black and Orencio, Alessandra De white — and in Academy ratio — by Larry Manda, the Rossi, Joel Saracho film is unfailingly gorgeous although is often uncomfort- ably heavy on the dialogue. This, coupled with the often incantatory delivery and opaque narrative, makes the film hard going at times — and after the exuberant magic of the first half, things turn a little somnolent for much of the final stretch. But when the film reaches its operatic coda, the emotional surge delivers a cathartic payoff. The populous cast contains assorted Diaz regulars such as Angel Aquino and Sid Lucero. Dialogue is in Tagalog with some Spanish, and sometimes hair-rais- ingly anachronistic English, as two characters discuss the course of the action in amusingly self-referential terms: “I’ll just wait for the next chapter to unfold and flow with it” (sic). The viewer can only do likewise.

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Lieutenant Yi When The Waves Are Gone The Autumn Morning Dir René Liu Dir Lav Diaz Dir Song Fang Project’s country of origin Taiwan Project’s country of origin Philippines Project’s country of origin China

Lieutenant Yi will mark the directorial debut of Tai- When The Waves Are Gone follows a man, now in his The Autumn Morning is a drama about the self- wan actress René Liu. Although a fictional tale, Liu 50s, who has been locked up in the most crowded discovery of a Chinese woman through two relation- — who also wrote the script — was inspired by the prison in Manila for 29 years. When he is finally ships with the same man, 12 years apart. At 21, she story of three generations of her family who live in a released, he makes his way home by boat, which is falls for a young Japanese man who she meets on her mansion where time seems to have stopped. loaded with a gun and 24 packs of bullets. He is travels in Yunnan. While they become close he doesn’t The title character, Lieutenant Yi, settled in Taiwan ready to claim back his wealth, land and love from reciprocate her feelings. A decade later, she meets him from China in 1949. When his granddaughter, a his best friend, the man who has taken them away. again and discovers he is now married with a child. famous pop singer, returns to the family mansion for “To yearn for freedom is not an illusion,” says Diaz “This film is about our inner emotions and our the first time in 10 years, her desire for change upsets of the theme of his project. “It’s our obligation to free understanding of the world,” says Song, who also the family’s precarious harmony and puts their love our motherland from those who do not own it wrote the screenplay. “Our feelings will change as and loyalty on trial. She finds herself cast as a traitor because history remembers. I only hope this rebel- time goes by; it’s the same for our perception of what by everyone around her, including the man who lion could mean something for the country.” we see. I want to capture in this film moments influenced her most, Lieutenant Yi. Like his previous films, the Tagalog-language beyond our daily experience.” “As my grandmother is getting old and losing her Waves will be shot in black-and-white and clock up She studied at the INSAS institute in Belgium and memories, I I have got to do something to docu- an epic-running time. With more than a dozen films received her MA in film directing from Film ment the bittersweet times of an era,” says Liu of the under his belt since 1998, Diaz has won interna- Academy. Her Chinese graduation short film,Good - 1950s. “The era of a lifetime of self-sacrifice, which tional awards including Locarno’s bye, received the second prize from Cinéfondation at treats loyalty as a basic virtue and asks for nothing in in 2014 for From What Is Before and the Berlinale’s Cannes in 2009, while her 2012 debut feature Memo- return, seems to have gone — but it shouldn’t have.” Silver Bear Alfred Bauer prize this February for A ries Look At Me won the best first feature prize at Liu, who is also a well-known singer, has won Lullaby To The Sorrowful Mystery. Locarno, the special jury prize at Tokyo Filmex and numerous acting accolades in China, Hong Kong Producer Bianca Balbuena has worked on more the grand prize at the International Women Film and Taiwan for roles in film, TV and theatre produc- than 20 features in various capacities before choosing Festival in Brazil. Memories Look At Me, in which tion. Her frequent collaborator, Taiwanese film- to focus on producing in 2011. Her credits include Song also stars, is a docudrama and received a maker , serves on the project as ’s Above The Clouds, Antoinette Jadaone’s limited theatrical release in 16 major cities in China. producer through Hong Kong-based Red On Red. That Thing Called Tadhana and A Lullaby To The Sor- The Autumn Morning is being produced indepen- Also on board is Patricia Cheng, who has produced rowful Mystery. Bradley Liew is a Malaysian producer, dently by Japan’s Shozo Ichiyama, whose recent several of Chang’s films, including 20 30 40, director and cinematographer who was involved in credits for Office Kitano include Jia Zhangke’sMoun - Run Papa Run and more recently Murmur Of Diaz’s short Prologue To The Great Desaparecido. He is tains May Depart and Sabu’s Chasuke’s Journey. He is The Hearts, all of which star Liu. Liu’s own YinYi Stu- working on a documentary about Diaz. the programme director of Tokyo Filmex and is also dio, is also producing. Lieutenant Yi will be its first Epicmedia is a Manila-based production company producing Song’s second feature The Calm, which is feature-film production. established by Diokno and Balbuena in 2011. set to start filming later this year. Silvia Wong Silvia Wong Silvia Wong Lieutenant Yi When The Waves Are Gone The Autumn Morning

Producers Sylvia Chang, Patricia Cheng Producers Bianca Balbuena, Bradley Liew Production Producer Shozo Ichiyama Production companies Red On Red, YinYi Studio companies Epicmedia Productions Budget $200,000 Production company TBA Budget $2m Finance raised to date 50% Finance raised to date 5% Contact Bianca Balbuena Budget $1.5m Contact Shozo Ichiyama Contact Yeh Ju-Ting [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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Border Bride Never Die Again Warrior Of Love Dir Wang Bing Dir Park Jung-bum Dir Derrick Lui Project’s country of origin Hong Kong-China Project’s country of origin South Korea Project’s country of origin

After completing his award-winning documentary Korean director Park Jung-bum — known for his Billed as Singapore’s first racing-car film, Derrick Three Sisters in 2012, Chinese director Wang Bing award-winning festival films The Journals Of Musan Lui’s Warrior Of Love is about a girl who aims to fol- searched for the mother of the three sisters who were and Alive — is going back to his cinematic and mar- low in her family’s racing tracks while uncovering the subject of that documentary at the China-Laos tial-arts roots with Never Die Again. “I started making the truth behind the deaths of her parents and border. There in the rainforest, he discovered a films because I love cinema, not because I necessarily grandfather. community of young Laotian women who sell them- wanted to do realist cinema,” he says, of what could The Singaporean director, who was born into a selves as wives to Chinese migrant peasants in the be seen as a change in direction. Set in 17th century family crazy about racing, has been dreaming of hope of a better life. Korea, Never Die Again features three generations of making such a film for 20 years. “While I’ve been liv- Border Bride follows these brides, from those just sword-making martial-arts practitioners swept up in ing out my other passion in film-making, it’s natural arriving in China, to the women who have been mar- a cycle of killing, craftsmanship and vengeance. to want to combine my two passions,” says Lui, who ried for several years and now have children. Many of “I grew up on martial-arts adventures and prac- worked at Mediacorp’s TVC arm and MTV Asia the latter couples, without a common language or tised Taekwondo in college. Watching the One- before becoming a freelance director. He says Warrior official marriage certificate, have separated and the Armed Swordsman series from China or the Zatoichi Of Love will be full of wit and humour, romance and women are searching for new husbands. series from Japan, I used to dream of making this heart-rending moments. Most of the racing scenes “Marriage is redefined in this kind of extreme rela- kind of film about Korean martial arts,” says Park. “I are expected to be shot in Malaysia, including at the tionship,” says Wang. “Through the daily life of these started working five years ago on this revenge story Formula 1-ready Sepang International Circuit. mixed couples, we will show the struggle of the indi- of a person with a limp and a blacksmith. It’s likeThe Lui’s extensive directing portfolio includes award- viduals under the surface of their apparently peace- Godfather — a family trilogy, with someone who tries winning short films, documentaries and music ful lives. It will be about China and Laos, about the to avenge their father, loses himself and then in the videos. Last year, his debut feature 1400 premiered at contradiction between humanity and society.” end goes through the process of finding himself.” Montreal World Film Festival and won best feature With his unique depiction of contemporary China, At the treatment stage, Park is working with an film at flEXiff in Sydney. Wang’s work has been celebrated internationally illustrator to create manhwa (Korean comics) that will Chan Pui Yin is producing the project through since his documentary West Of The Tracks was a fes- be used like storyboards to help investors visualise the SIMF Management, a film fund managed by Hong tival hit in 2002 and played in France for more than project, and could be published in their own right. Kong’s Salon Films. It previously funded Singapo- six months. Three Sisters also had a successful release Park is producing through his Second Wind Film. rean box-office hits Taxi! Taxi! and Homecoming. in France (45,000 admissions) and Japan (20,000 “In total, three films could cost up towon 20bn [$17m], Chan’s producer credits also include Jack Neo’s admissions), and will soon be followed by a North but if we condense and shoot them together, the breakout hits I Not Stupid and its sequel for the now American release. His latest film,Ta’ang , premiered budget would be won8bn [$6.7m],” he says. “It’s a vast dormant Mediacorp Raintree Pictures. in the Berlinale’s Forum section last month. project that I’m taking my time with. I haven’t proven Singapore writer-director Boris Boo is co-produc- Isabelle Glachant of Hong Kong-based Chinese myself commercially, so I need to do so while continu- ing with Chan Yan Yan. Boo will co-write the script Shadows is producing the new project. ing to work on this project for a couple more years.” with veteran TV writer Chen Sew Khoon. Silvia Wong Jean Noh Silvia Wong Border Bride Never Die Again Warrior Of Love

Producer Isabelle Glachant Production company Producer Park Jung-bum Production company Producers Chan Pui Yin, Boris Boo, Chan Yan Yan Chinese Shadows Budget $110,000 Second Wind Film Budget $8m Finance raised to Production company SIMF Management Finance raised to date 9% Contact Isabelle date N/A Contact Oh Ji-yoon bonlumiere@naver. Budget $1.8m Finance raised to date 57% Glachant [email protected] com Contact Chan Pui Yin [email protected]

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Lhamo And Skalbe Trains In The Night Letters All My Daughters Dir Sonthar Gyal Dir Adam Wong Dirs Jero Yun (left), Marte Vold Dir Phan Dang Di Project’s country of origin China Project’s country of origin China- Project’s country of origin Norway- Project’s country of origin Vietnam Hong Kong South Korea-Denmark

Tibetan director Sonthar Gyal’s third Trains In The Night is Hong Kong direc- A project developed at CPH:LAB’s “Nowadays, when TV is filled with news feature Lhamo And Skalbe focuses on a tor Adam Wong’s love letter to Japanese 12-day workshop last year, documen- of refugees fleeing war-torn countries, I beautiful woman who is believed to . It is about a young girl who tary Letters brings together Norwegian can’t help being reminded of a similar bring bad luck to her village, especially leaves everything behind in Hong Kong visual artist and short-film director tragedy in Vietnamese history in the when her leading role in a local theatre and travels to Sapporo to pursue her Marte Vold with South Korean director 1980s,” says director Phan Dang Di. production is apparently jinxed. The dreams to learn about manga and search Jero Yun. They traded visual messages “While the Vietnamese boat people woman has other worries too: she has for the famous yet reclusive author of about their daily lives, creating a com- grabbed the world’s attention, less talked endured a miserable marriage and is her beloved Mystery Train. The key to his parative study of two ordinary people about but nonetheless causing untold now being pursued by a businessman identity may lie with her dispirited but on opposite sides of the world. pain to those it affected was the issue of who turns out to be married. talented manga-class instructor. “We are watching these brief little mixed children.” “There is a lack of realistic characters “Manga inspires and ignites young shorts, me learning about her life and All My Daughters follows a retired US in Tibetan films. I would like to portray readers and encourages us to chase our her learning about mine, as will the woman who travels to Vietnam in search more fleshed-out characters,” says Gyal, dreams,” says Wong. “Is manga a para- audience,” says Yu, explaining that they of her late son’s daughter, whose mother who plans to cast well-known Tibetan dise created to drag people away from aim to complete the film within the was Vietnamese. But the poverty- singers in the main roles. “I hope to complicated reality or is reality nothing year. “These little letters will be layered stricken woman has sold her child to a present a valuable portrayal of Tibetan but a ruthless killer of youthful dreams? until August — winter, spring, summer wealthy couple, unaware the US govern- culture and achieve high production This question resonates because it’s the and maybe a bit of fall — to show a big- ment now allows families of half-Ameri- values.” dilemma we’re all facing.” ger picture.” can children to legally migrate to the US. Gyal’s vision for this project is more The Chinese-language script, Yun’s credits include co-directing “It’s a story about strangers trying to commercial than his two previous films, co-written by Wong, is finished and has The Pig as part of omnibus filmTaipei understand each other’s strange, even which were both arthouse and low- been translated into Japanese. Factory, which went to Cannes, Busan immoral, actions in order to communi- budget. Sun Beaten Path won the Drag- Jacqueline Liu’s Hong Kong-based and Hong Kong in 2013, and feature cate and forgive. Maybe it’s they who suf- ons & Tigers Award for young cinema at production company Playhouse pro- documentary Mrs B. A North Korean fer the hardest and longest from war, not International Film Festival duces. Veteran producer Kenji Hayashi Woman (2015), a France-South Korea the soldiers who die in battle,” Phan says. and a special mention at Hong Kong is also on board, while independent co-production that won CNC’s World He is producing the project with Lize- International Film Festival in 2011. River writer-filmmaker Hiroshi Fukazawa Cinema Grant and was selected to IDFA roux Le Hang, an entrepreneur who won best youth feature film at the Asia serves as associate producer. Amsterdam Central Pitch 2014. backed Phan’s second feature Big Father, Pacific Screen Awards in 2015. Wong is best known for The Way We Vold’s credits include Out Of Nature, Small Father And Other Stories. His first, Prior to directing, Gyal worked as a Dance (2013), a low-budget film about which screened at Toronto in 2014 and Bi, Don’t Be Afraid, was screened at cinematographer and art director on street dancers that won the audience Berlin in 2015. Trained as a cinematog- more than 50 festivals and won several several of fellow Tibetan director Pema award at Fukuoka International Film rapher, she has shot award-winning awards, including two at Critics’ Week Tseden’s films, includingThe Search. Festival as well as three prizes at the shorts, music videos and documentaries. in Cannes. Phan is also the producer of Sonam Rinchen Gyal returns to pro- Hong Kong Film Awards, including She is working on her feature debut. Nguyen Hoang Diep’s debut feature duce having worked on River. Beijing best new director and best new per- Mille Haynes, head of CPH:LAB in Flapping In The Middle Of Nowhere. Garuda Film & TV Culture Communica- former. His latest filmShe Remembers, Denmark is producing, with Filmmart’s DNY Productions was founded by tion specialises in the production of film He Forgets was the opening film of last Vold in Norway and Yun’s production Phan with producer Tran Thi Bach and TV in Tibetan areas. year’s Hong Kong Asian Film Festival. company K Plus Y, based in Seoul. Ngoc and actress Do Thi Hai Yen. Silvia Wong Silvia Wong Jean Noh Silvia Wong Lhamo And Skalbe Trains In The Night Letters All My Daughters

Producer Sonam Rinchen Gyal Producers Jacqueline Liu, Kenji Hayashi, Producers Mille Haynes, Marte Vold, Producers Phan Dang Di, Lizeroux Le Production companies Beijing Garuda Hiroshi Fukazawa Jero Yun Production company Hang Production companies DNY Film & TV Culture Communication Production company Playhouse K Plus Y Budget $104,700 Finance Productions Budget $4.5m Budget $780,000 Finance raised to Budget $2.5m Finance raised to date raised to date $14,700 (CPH:LAB, Finance raised to date 2% date 19% Contact Sonan Rinchen Gyal 12% (Japan) Contact Hiroshi Fukazawa Norwegian Film Institute) Contact Jero Contact Phan Dang Di phandangi76@ [email protected] [email protected] Yun [email protected] gmail.com

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North America’s leading festival of popular Asian cinema is back with over 50 new feature films from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and South East Asia! “The Best of New York City in 2015!” -- Village Voice

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Vampire Diary March April May Hanalei Bay Dirs Anthony Yan (left), Hang Chiu Dir Rooth Tang Dir Daishi Matsunaga Project’s country of origin Hong Kong Project’s country of origin Thailand Project’s country of origin Japan

Vampire Diary is a comedy drama about a school girl Born in Bangkok and raised in Los Angeles, Rooth Japanese director Daishi Matsunaga, whose 2015 whose family descends from a long line of Taoist Tang made his feature directorial debut with Toronto award-winning youth drama (and first fiction fea- priests with magical powers. Her dreams of catching International Film Festival title Sway, a triptych of ture) Pieta In The Toilet played at the Tokyo and Rot- vampires come true after she runs away and meets a love stories set in Paris, Los Angeles and Bangkok at terdam film festivals last year, is set to adapt Haruki beautiful century-old vampire who wants to go different points in history. He now turns to science Murakami’s short story Hanalei Bay. Spurred on by home. So begins her adventure of locating the vam- fiction withMarch April May, “with an emphasis on a sense of “anxiety and anger” after the devastating pire’s ancient home in modern-day Hong Kong, the sci-fi aspects being as grounded as possible”. tsunami and earthquake in Tohoku, Japan, in 2011, while her father finally reveals his long-kept secrets The film follows a young Thai woman named Pan the director says he wants to focus on “nature and to get back his daughter. who wakes up in wintry Ohio in the US, remember- humanity” in this film. “This is a movie about faith and relationships. A ing her past in sultry Bangkok when her best friend Matsunaga made a name for himself on the festival child runs away from home, while a vampire wants to and lover May committed suicide. Pan finds herself circuit with documentary Pyuupiru 2001-2008, which go home. Faith is the basis of human behaviour and having out-of-body experiences during a sleep study screened at festivals including Rotterdam, Jeonju and human will,” say Anthony Yan and Hang Chiu, who and meets Ceres, a doctor who has similar visions, of Paris Cinema. are co-directing the project as their debut feature. a physical reality that changes at their will. In Hanalei Bay, a Japanese woman travels to Both directors graduated from the directing “The story borrows some ideas from theoretical Hawaii to identify the body of her son. The young department of the Hong Kong Academy for Per- physics to cement what the characters experience. man was attacked by a shark while surfing, and his forming Arts. Yan’s short filmHearse Driver won the Think of recent films along the lines of Primer, right leg is missing below the knee. While visiting jury award in the professional category of Beijing Ex Machina or Interstellar,” says Tang, who adds that Hanalei Bay, the woman feels a sense of liberation as Student Film Festival in 2008. He works as a script- he was inspired in part by having to say his final she watches surfers and sometimes plays piano at a writer with credits including Let’s Go, I Love Hong goodbyes to some family members in Thailand. local restaurant. Over the next decade, she returns Kong 2013 and The True Love. “There’s this revolving door of birth and death there for three weeks each year. During one of these Chiu, a well-known YouTube personality, has that we all experience, as individuals, as family and trips she hears of a one-legged Japanese surfer that directed and acted in micro-films that regularly as a society. I wanted to explore what this meant on a has been spotted on the beach, and she begins look- attract more than 5 million views. He is also the lead personal level and a philosophical one,” he says. ing for him. singer of Hong Kong pop-punk band ToNick. With the completed script undergoing rewrites, Shinji Ogawa is producing with his company Producer is a veteran TV actor-turned- the film aims to shoot primarily in Thailand and the Bridgehead, which also produced Pieta In The Toilet. producer. Recent productions from his production US later this year and in early 2017. France-educated Ogawa’s credits include the award-winning Japanese outfit Smart includeATM and The Moment. producer Chang Chuti’s credits include working for hit Ping Pong, popular indie director Isshin Inudo’s MM2 Entertainment Hong Kong is a subsidiary of Hou Hsaio-Hsien as script supervisor on Millennium Josee, The Tiger And The Fish and La Maison De Singapore-headquartered MM2 Entertainment. The Mambo and international co-ordinator on The Assas- Himiko, as well as another Haruki Murakami adap- parent company covers a wide range of businesses, sin, as well as production assistant in Paris on Tom tation, Norwegian Wood, directed by Tran Anh Hung. from financing, production to distribution and spon- Lin’s Starry Starry Night. With no production com- The script for Hanalei Bay is undergoing a rewrite sorship. Jack Neo’s box-office hit Ah Boys To Men pany yet attached, the film-makers are at HAF look- with casting under way. The film aims to shoot next series is one of its major co-productions. ing for funds and co-producers. summer in Hawaii and Tokyo. Silvia Wong Jean Noh Jean Noh Vampire Diary March April May Hanalei Bay

Producers Ha Yu, Mani Man Production company Producer Chang Chuti Production company n/a Producer Shinji Ogawa Production company MM2 Entertainment Hong Kong Budget $1m Budget $600,000 Finance raised to date none Bridgehead Budget $1.7m Finance raised to date Finance raised to date 40% Contact Mani Man Contact Rooth Tang [email protected] $765,000 (Geek Pictures, Iwamoto Kinzoku, Bridgehead) [email protected] Contact Ogawa Shinji [email protected]

14 Screen International at Filmart March 16, 2016 www.screendaily.com Avalanche From Black And White To Dying To Survive Dir He Jia Shades Of Grey Dir Wen Muye Project’s country of origin China Dir Huang Zi Project’s country of origin China Project’s country of origin China In his new project Avalanche, Chinese director He Jia Based on a true story, Dying To Survive focuses on a (aka Wang Haolin) takes us to a snow-capped The debut feature of Chinese director Huang Zi is a leukaemia patient who travels to India for drugs that mountain where a young married couple celebrates personal story that revolves around a family of three, are illegal in China. He soon makes lots of money their sixth wedding anniversary. Residents are like his own. The drama follows the everyday life of a trafficking the drugs to fellow Chinese patients. But moved by the pair’s apparent devotion to each other terminally ill father, an overburdened mother and a when his doctor dies from the same disease, he dis- in the face of tough times — the wife is paralysed teenage son who wants to break free. The family tries tributes the drugs freely to the patients and surren- from the waist down as a result of an accident on hard to keep things in check but life feels over- ders to the police. Throughout, he fights the system their wedding day — but they are unaware of the whelming. A trip to the father’s home town will to allow patients to purchase the drugs as a cheaper turmoil that lies beneath the surface. The woman change their fate. alternative. wants to kill herself, while the husband is prepared “It is a story without much dramatic conflict, just “The film explores dignity in life and how we can to let her die. like life itself. The tone will be sober using a simple attain true dignity. The answer is through selfless- “This is a film about love and courage, especially narrative style,” says Huang, who spent most of last ness and sacrifice,” says Chinese director Wen Muye. love in a marriage, which is not just about pleasure year working on the script. Filming will take place “As there’s a lack of dignity in modern society, we but also about responsibility. My storytelling struc- mainly in his birthplace of . long for it even more, but few people can be selfless ture will be quite unique and the ending will feel Prior to writing the script, Huang spent and self-sacrificing. This story of an ordinary man warm and hopeful,” says He, who has also written months filming with his mother and sick father, who becomes a hero makes it all the more touching.” the script. recording their day-to-day life and the memories Dying To Survive will be Wen’s solo directorial He is collaborating for the first time with they share. He used the footage to make a documen- debut. He is one of five directors of Cities In Love, renowned producer Nai An, who is on board the pro- tary, My Dad And Mom And Their Young Master, a love anthology film released last year. ject through her Beijing-based company Dream Fac- which is now in post-production. He graduated from Beijing Film Academy with a tory. Nai is a regular collaborator with Chinese Huang graduated from the University of Califor- master’s degree in creative writing. His short films auteur , producing many of his critically nia, Berkeley, and attended part of the MFA pro- have earned him accolades: Battle won best director acclaimed films, including Suzhou River, Summer gramme at NYU Tisch Asia in Singapore. His short at the Vision Youth Awards and the jury award at Palace and more recently . filmThe City won an IMAX Dream award at Beijing FIRST International Film Festival in Xining in 2013, He graduated from the new-media production College Student Film Festival. while Requiem was named best short film at Asiana department of the UK’s University of Sunderland. Taiwan actor-director , best known for International Short Film Festival in 2014. He has previously worked as a director and his box-office hitMonga , serves as producer of From Chinese director Ning Hao, best known for box- photographer for Greenpeace and Médecins Black And White To Shades Of Grey. Huang got to office hits Crazy Stone and Crazy Racer, is producing Sans Frontieres. know Niu when both of them attended last year’s through his Mountain Of Flowers Films. The His debut feature The Land, about a remote FIRST International Film Festival in Xining. Shanghai-based production outfit was established minority community, won the NETPAC award at Zhu Jiang Film Group is a conglomerate launched by Ning and fellow Chinese director Sheng Zhimin Rotterdam in 2009. His second film Erdos Rider, in 2008 when local distributor Film with the aim of identifying and developing new three interwoven stories on love and fate, also pre- Company merged with Pearl River Film Studio, one directing, writing and acting talents. It is a subsidi- miered at Rotterdam last year. of the top film studios in China. ary of Ning’s Dirty Monkey Films. Silvia Wong Silvia Wong Silvia Wong

Avalanche From Black And White To Shades Of Grey Dying To Survive

Producer Nai An Production companies Dream Producer Doze Niu Production company Zhu Jiang Producer Ning Hao Production company Factory, He Jia Film Studio Budget $1.6m Finance Film Group Budget $500,000 Finance raised to Mountain Of Flowers Films Budget $6m raised to date 28% (Dream Factory, He Jia Film date 40% (Zhu Jiang Film Group) Contact Huang Zi Finance raised to date $2.5m Studio) Contact He Jia [email protected] [email protected] Contact Luo Huiyan [email protected]

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Ace Of Sales Dir Cho Li

The new romantic comedy by director Cho Li, whose fi lm The Rice Bomber pre- miered at the Berlinale in 2014, focuses on an out-of-work woman who is recruited at a TV shopping channel through a boss. But her live shop- ping show becomes a reality piece when she is held hostage by a fellow host, her City Of Jade rival for the TV channel’s top salesper- son. Produced by Cho’s regular collabo- rator Yeh Jufeng, Ace Of Sales stars Bianca Bai and Lin Mei-Hsiu, and is in post-production. Contact MandarinVision [email protected] City Of Jade Dir Midi Z The Tag-Along The Road To Mandalay

A Berlinale premiere in February, Myan- daughter and son-in-law. David Loman Poison follows a tragic love story involv- The Tag-Along mar-born, Taiwan-based film-maker 2 was released over Chinese New Year. ing two illegal Burmese migrants in Dir Cheng Wei-Hao Midi Z describes City Of Jade as a “per- Contact Polyface Entertainment Bangkok, played by You Are The Apple Of sonal family video”. The documentary Media Group My Eye actor Kai Ko and Midi Z’s regular Based on the popular urban legend of the depicts the reunion after 16 years with [email protected] actress Wu Ke-Xi. In post-production, little girl in red, director Cheng Wei-Hao’s his eldest brother, a former miner who The Road To Mandalay has been generat- debut feature The Tag-Along has become abandoned his poor family and was My Egg Boy ing buzz since winning the Taipei New the most successful locally fi nanced and jailed for drug abuse. As it follows the Dir Fu Tien-Yu Horizon Screenplay Award at the Golden produced horror fi lm in Taiwan since its return of his brother to Hpakant, a Horse Film Project Promotion and the release in November. Starring River malaria-infested war zone most famous Starring Rhydian Vaughan and Ariel Lin, fi rst prize at Amiens’ screenplay develop- Huang, Hsu Wei-Ning and Yumi Wong for its jade mines, it captures the plight My Egg Boy is about an embryo that is ment fund. It has also received funding from Malaysia, it is about a hard-working of impoverished miners who are chas- stored in liquid nitrogen while its owner, from the CNC’s world cinema fund and real-estate broker who doesn’t know ing the same dream. a 32-year-old single woman, desperately Aide aux Cinema du Monde. where to turn when his grandmother dis- Contact Seashore Image Productions searches for Mr Right — or at least the Contact Flash Forward Entertainment appears, until he fi nds a video of a little [email protected] right sperm. Currently in production, the [email protected] girl in red walking along behind her. romantic comedy is produced by Touch Contact Ablaze Image David Loman 2 Of The Light producer Rachel Chen and Rookie Chef [email protected] Dir Chiu Li-Kwan is the second fi lm from director Fu Tien- Dir Fung Kai Yu, whose 2009 debut Somewhere I Have White Lies, Black Lies Following her 2013 debut feature Never Travelled screened at the Taipei, Rookie Chef is a feelgood comedy about Dir Lou Yi-An David Loman, which became Taiwan’s Hong Kong and Karlovy Vary food and family. It revolves around a third-highest-grossing film fi lm festivals. young girl who, on discovering her fami- This crime thriller from A Place Of One’s ever, talent manager and pro- Contact Touch of Light Film ly’s long-lost cookbook, is determined Own director Lou Yi-An is about a hair- ducer-director Chiu Li-Kwan [email protected] along with her young friends to recreate salon owner who disappears with his for- reunites with her original the traditional recipes, even though none mer lover when he is suspected of mur- cast in the comedy sequel. The Road To of them has any skill in the kitchen. Fung dering his wife, while a reporter discovers Veteran comedian Chu Mandalay Kai is a Golden Bell award-winning TV her death may be linked to an old patri- Ko-Liang is back as a Dir Midi Z director who made his feature debut with cide case. Starring Hsu Wei-Ning, Wang country bump- Din Tao: Leader Of The Parade, which Po-Chieh and model/TV actress Annie kin-turned- The fourth feature became Taiwan’s top-grossing local fi lm Chen in her big-screen debut, White Lies, gangster boss, from the director of the in 2012. Like Din Tao, Rookie Chef Black Lies premiered as the opening fi lm along with Amber Kuo award-winning Ice received a Chinese New Year release. of Film Festival in October. and as his Contact ifilm Contact Flash Forward Entertainment character’s estranged (Left) David Loman 2 [email protected] [email protected] Is

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Chapman To and understandably a decided petty official, is facing a Captain 88, arrives on Dorobushi high school givE happiNESS a Herman Yau carry lack of trust among the moral dilemma. a mission to save planet for boys and Shiran high chaNcE on their successful gangs. With each fighting Meeting room N206-N207, Earth from the biggest school for girls are going (Hong Kong) Drama. collaboration from Sara for his gang’s own vested hkcEc baddie in town. to be merged to become a 19mins. Academy of with this dark comedy interests, what will be the 11:00 Meeting room N211-N212, mixed school. Film, Hong Kong Baptist set in the seedy Hong outcome? hkcEc Meeting room N104-N105, University. Dir: Wong Kong underground theatre 1, hkcEc hEE hkcEc Keane TK. (Japan) Drama. 72mins. childhood When a South Asian who Free Stone Productions (Hong Kong) Children’s. EvErythiNg MuSt go believes that he is the struggle between pursuing women struggle to change Co. Dir: Kaori Momoi. 27mins. Academy of (Hong Kong) Action/ most pathetic person in their dreams and facing the unchangeable rules, Key cast: Kaori Momoi. Film, Hong Kong Baptist adventure. 19mins. the world tries to commit reality. As time goes by, each in her own individual In the pleasant climate University. Dir: Ng Tung Academy of Film, Hong suicide and fails, he is will they swim with the way of California, a Japanese Yu. Kong Baptist University. given another chance. stream or give up what theatre 2, hkcEc prostitute faces an Tung and Su give a Dir: Yeung Oi Yu Audrey, Meeting room N206-N207, they have to follow their isolating existence. storeowner a $500 bill Lau Cheuk Che. hkcEc dreams? SoMEthiNg iN thE air Her obsession with fire stolen from their grandpa. Can you give my voice Meeting room N206-N207, (Hong Kong) Romance. encompasses the people However, they later realise back? After answering iN SEarch oF thE hkcEc 26mins. 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PseudoNyM sum, Wong Chun-lung. see box, below A pair of ex-lovers are wandering around the s is For staNley campus one random (Italy) Documentary. evening. She asks for 78mins. Rai Com. more while he is afraid Dir: Alex Infascelli. of revisiting the past. Key cast: Emilio Love turns into doubt, he D’Alessandro, Janette wonders if she is really Woolmore. coming back into his The story of Emilio . Will he leave the D’Alessandro, Stanley past behind? Can we ever Kubrick’s personal driver. get back together again? A friendship that lasted 30 years, helped create » Whiteboard four cinema masterpieces, (Hong Kong) Drama. and brought together 4mins. Hong Kong Arts two apparently opposite Centre. Dir: Keung people, who found their Shing-lok. ideal journey companion When a simple whiteboard far away from home. doodle becomes alive and Meeting room N101a, hKCeC Filmart sentient, it interacts with its creator and hilarity the seveNth seNse 12:00 A story about salvation Centre. Dir: Lo Hin-kit. and mishaps ensue. (Egypt) Comedy. 112mins. routine is work, work, of oneself. Shun has Earlier this morning I Playtime is cut short, Mad Solutions. Dir: PseudoNyM work. Tonight he’s in a experienced painful attended a funeral. It was however, as a mysterious Ahmed Mekki. Key cast: (France) Horror/ hurry, he’s due to meet a days during his youth, peaceful and calm. evil being suddenly springs Ahmad Al Fishawy, Rania suspense. 74mins. Wide. beautiful young stranger so he deliberately keeps in with only one intention: Kurdi, Ahmed Rateb, Dir: Sebban Thierry. who contacted him via a distance from others. » oxygeN to bring chaos and Omar Al Arian. Key Cast: Sebban the internet. But this Living a stressful life, it is (Hong Kong) Drama. destruction. It is now up A young gym teacher tries Thierry, Tourneux blind date will flip him nowadays easy to suffer 14mins. Hong Kong Arts to the doodled hero to save to commit suicide after a Perrine, Skreblin Igor, on a downward spiral from all sorts of mental Centre. Dir: Yip Yuen- the day. series of failures, only to Abkarian Simon. and disrupt forever the illness. Only through self- ching. Meeting room N102-N103, meet a voodoo man who Alex is a divorced course of his life. therapy can one live a life Fifty years after the hKCeC gives him the power to father and a stressed Meeting room N109-N110, at present. Handover, the Hong Kong read minds. executive. His daily hKCeC media is under surveillance a PlaCe Where the Meeting room N211-N212, » the dorMer by the government. dreaM begiNs hKCeC (Hong Kong) Drama. Familiar places turn (China) Drama. 97mins. killer whose MO is to dress city we are living in; these 10mins. Hong Kong Arts foreign and strange. China Film Promotion We are liNKed — Wishes as a police officer. The two feelings belong to them, Centre. Dir: Ho Yui-chi Cheung Jing, with her International. Dir: (Japan) Documentary. become friends. and also us. Savio. team Oxygen, challenges Su Lei. Key cast: Yan 46mins. Mylamstudio. Meeting room N101b, hKCeC theatre 2, hKCeC We are all searching for the authority, and tries to Xiaopin. Dir: Man Lam. Key cast: a place with freedom. But awaken others to what is Ayigul, a girl from a 13:45 14:00 Yoshinori Tsubouchi, once we get there, it may happening around. Her remote Xinjiang desert, Man Lam, Enwei Shan. the MoMeNt 21st iFva aWards not be as beautiful as you yearning for freedom is like came to study at Shanghai A car accident in (Hong Kong, Malaysia) highlights (youth aNd have expected. a distant dream. Runhe High School. … A memory Drama. 87mins. aNiMatioN Category) Suffering from an eye from one atomic-bomb Top Entertainment » eye’M Free » shear MarKs disease, Ayigul has to survivor… A promise for Production. Dir: Wong » all i WaNt (Hong Kong) Animation. 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Killer Carman Kong. wants to be released from substituted all electronic lamp post, which records Meeting room N202-N203, (Malaysia, Taiwan) The story of four his repression, while she devices and those who the height of Chi, carry his hKCeC Horror/suspense. 90mins. relationships: a couple hopes to leave behind her can afford them become childhood memories in the All Rights Entertainment. breaking up yet holding emptiness. The immature wholly dependent on era of resettlement. The the CoNditioNed Dir: Remus Mook, Eric tight; a father and a couple take advantage of them. Chuck is one of the frivolous youthful days, (Hong Kong) Drama. Cheung. daughter meeting up each other to find their devoted goggles users and the budding first love, 24mins. Fresh Wave Film A self-published comic after a long separation; own peace of mind. Is this an incident leaves him the past with no regrets… Festival. Dir: Chan Kam artist accidentally kills his a girl escaping from selfishness? An insult to deprived of the privileges. mixed memories reappear Hei. friend during a quarrel. growing up; and two love? Or have they torn Alice, his classmate, offers in his mind’s eye, lighting In order to fulfil the In order to avoid going to buddies’ reunion after away the mask of morality aid but things take a up the innocence in his expectations of her mom jail, he comes up with an years of misunderstanding. after all? turn for the worse when heart all over again. and her grandpa, Nam is ingenious way to dispose Different people carry she cooks up an inventive raised as a boy. of the body. Until his different stories. The stories » behiNd the solution. » WheN the suN goes Meeting room N206-N207, cheating girlfriend comes are connected by a vintage sChoolbag doWN hKCeC to visit and he accidentally photography studio. Their (Hong Kong) Animation. » Mur Mur (Hong Kong) Drama. kills her too. Down the experiences bring out a 10mins. Hong Kong Arts (Hong Kong) Animation. 12mins. 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19mins. Fresh Wave Film hesitates but finally Festival. Dir: Wong Suk decides to help him. Nga. agnes b. CINEMA! Hong Kong Although 15-year-old Arts Centre Wing is bounced around the foster homes, he THE LAsT Egg forms a genuine sibling (Vietnam) Comedy. relationship with Hoi 94mins. Vietnam Media Lam and the mentally Corp. Dir: Nam Cito, challenged Chi Yan. Bao Nhan. Key Cast: Meeting Room N206-N207, Diem My 9X, Binh HKCEC Minh, Dieu Nhi, Huynh Lap, Viet Huong, Huu THE food fACIsT Chau. (Hong Kong) Drama. A beautiful and successful 30mins. Fresh Wave Film lady who always says Festival. Dir: Yip Man “no” to getting married Hay. discovers that she has a Legendary chef Mo strange sickness which Yik-Tin is notorious for may lead to infertility. turning animals into How can she quickly find spectacular dishes. a husband in just two Meeting Room N206-N207, Filmart months and have a child? HKCEC Inoue. Key cast: Yuki and his co-worker Mabel Meeting Room N202-N203, 14:15 puts a man into a coma, Amami, Kenichi — are suddenly taken HKCEC THE sEA WITHIN oLd sToNE a small-town taxi driver Matsuyama, Taichi hostage. 16:30 (Hong Kong) Drama. (China, Canada) becomes overburdened Saotome. Theatre 1, HKCEC 30mins. Fresh Wave Film Drama. 80mins. with paying the injured In 11th-century Japan, LIfE AfTER LIfE Festival. Dir: Wong Wai Maktub Films. Dir: man’s hospital costs to Soma and Masakado sCANNER (China) Action/ Nap. Johnny Ma. Key cast: the point of considering meet at a festival in the (Japan) Horror/suspense. adventure. 80mins. Fishermen couple Ah Chen Gang, Nai An, murder as a possible countryside and fall in 109mins. . Xstream Pictures. Shing and Mei-wah have Wang Hongwei, Zhang way out. love. Soma is a former Dir: Syusuke Kaneko. Dir: Zhang Hanyi. different visions about the Zebin, Luo Xue’er. Meeting Room N201B, warrior who now lives Key Cast: Mansai Key cast: Zhang Li, rest of their days. After a car accident that HKCEC as a fortune teller after Nomura, Hiroyuki Zhang Mingjun. Meeting Room N206-N207, her people were driven Miyasako, Shota Yasuda, The spirit of a deceased HKCEC out of their country by Hana Sugisaki, Fumino mother takes over her son’s WHERE’s THE HEAd? befriends Sahara who an invasion. Masakado Kimura, Zen Kajihara, body in order to oversee TEN yEARs (Hong Kong) Drama. confesses his obsessive love is a bungling but well- Morio Kazama, Atsuko the task of replanting a (Hong Kong) Drama. 24mins. Fresh Wave Film for Miki. meaning samurai from Takahata. very important tree. 103mins. Golden Scene Festival. Dir: Lui Mei Theatre 1, HKCEC the Kanto Plains. Their Sengoku, who used to be Meeting Room N101A, HKCEC Company. Dir: Kwok Fung. destinies take a dramatic a once-famous comedian, 14:15 18:15 Zune, Wong Fei-Pang, Lai Ha, once a notorious turn when Masakado has a special ability Jevons Au, Chow Kwun- mob boss, has been oLd sToNE decides to fight the army to read one’s residual CRossCuRRENT Wai, Ng Ka-Leung. strategically planning the see box, above sent over by the Mikado thoughts, but lives humbly (China) Romance. Key cast: Liu Kai Chi. career of her only son, in Kyoto, and to set up and avoids meeting the 116mins. Ray Produktion 16:00 A collection of five short Yan. It is, however, never his own sovereign state. others. One day, a young GmbH. Dir: Yang Chao. stories; a prophecy, and Yan’s intention to follow fRog KINgdoM: suB-ZERo But can he win without pianist, Ami, requests him Key cast: , Xin a fable for Hong Kong. his mother’s footsteps — MIssIoN his wife, an even more to search for her missing Zhilei, Wu Lipeng, Tan Through their films, five instead he aspires to be a (China) Animation. indomitable warrior, by piano teacher, Yukie. Kai, Wang Hongwei, of Hong Kong’s young film-maker. 87mins. Golden Network his side? Sengoku was reluctant Jiang Hualin. directors are raising Meeting Room N206-N207, Asia. Dir: Peng Fei. Meeting Room N102-N103, to help Ami at first, but Gao Chun, captain of a questions about the most HKCEC Rain returns to Frog HKCEC Yukie’s left-behind nail cargo ship sailing up central issues concerning Kingdom after a series of file makes him read the Yangtze River, their city. WHILE THE WoMEN ARE explosions rock the capital. RoBBERy Yukie’s residual thoughts disembarks at every agnes b. CINEMA! 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