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TIFFCOM 2013
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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
RIGOR MORTIS
by Juno Mak

 
Hong Kong / 2013 / 101’ / Cantonese / Action, Horror, Drama
Official Selections: Venice, Toronto, Fantastic Fest-Austin, Sitges, London, Tokyo
Cast: Chin Siu-Ho, Kara Wai, Nina Paw, Antony "Friend" Chan, Lo Hoi Pang, Richard Ng, Chung Fat
RIGOR MORTIS is nominated for 4 Golden Horse
Best New Actor, Best Visual Effects, Best Make Up & Custom Design
Synopsis:
In this eerie and chilling, contemporary, action/special effects laden homage to the classic Chinese vampire movies of the 1980’s, writer-director-producer, Juno Mak makes his feature directorial debut. Co-produced by J-Horror icon Takashi Shimizu, and reuniting some of the original cast members of the classic Mr. Vampire series, RIGOR MORTIS is set in a creepy and moody Hong Kong public housing tower whose occupants we soon discover, run the gamut from the living to the dead, to the undead, along with ghosts, vampires and zombies.
James Marsh, TWITCHFILM.COM: “The result is a film that will no doubt surprise many viewers, both in its maturity, technical competence and host of uniformly excellent performances… (continues) RIGOR MORTIS is a slowburn by typical vampire movies standards, and never attempts to resurrect the humour of Mr. Vampire and its contemporaries, but proves a brave, confident and assured debut from a new independent voice in Hong Kong Cinema.” - READ MORE
Screenings in TOKYO
Oct 17, Thu, 12.50 pm, Roppongi TOHO Cinemas Screen 2 (Opening Film for Asian Future)
Oct 18, Fri, 6.50 pm, Roppongi TOHO CINEMAS Art Screen (P&I)
Oct 18, Fri, 8.00 pm, Roppongi TOHO Cinemas screen 1
Oct 19, Sat, 2.20 pm, Roppongi TOHO Cinemas Screen 5
 
BORGMAN
by Alex van Warmerdam

 
The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark / 2013 / 113’ / Dutch / Suspense Drama
Official Selections: Busan, Toronto, Strassbourg, London, Sitges, Athens, Cannes Competition 2013
Cast: Jan Bijvoet, Hadewych Minis, Jeroen Perceval, Sara Hjort Ditlevsen
Awards Winner for Golden Calfs
Best Film, Best Script and  Best Actress
Synopsis:
Borgman’s arrival in the tree-lined avenues of an exclusive residential area is the beginning of a series of unsettling events around the carefully constructed facade of a wealthy couple, their three children and their nanny.
Brandy Dean, PRETTYCLEVERFILMS.COM: “Ultimately BORGMAN is a stylish and uber-creepy old school fable about the mysterious ways in which evil can work it’s dark magic. It’s as terrifying as anything David Lynch has produced, as blackly funny as anything the Coen brothers can hope for, and it is definitely a festival must see.” - READ MORE
Screenings in TOKYO
Oct 19, Sat, 9.20 pm, Roppongi TOHO Cinemas screen 1
Oct 21, Mon, 2.40 pm, Roppongi TOHO Cinemas screen 2
Oct 24, Thu, 1.50 pm, Roppongi TOHO Cinemas screen 4 (P&I)
 
CURRENT FILMS
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by Donovan Marsh
South Africa / 2013 / 96’ / Zulu / Action, Thriller
Official Selection: Toronto
Synopsis:
When an honest undercover cop is cheated out of a reward by his corrupt superiors he joins a cash-in-transit heist gang for a once off score.
William Brownridge, TORONTO FILM SCENE: “A PERFECT ACTION FILM” - READ MORE
KISS THE WATER
by Eric Steel
USA / 2013 / 80’ / English / Documentary 
Official Selections: Tribeca, Edinburgh, Vancouver, Woods Hole, Hot Springs, Hamptons
Synopsis:
In every strand, in every fiber, there was a story, a fairy tale, a truth -- waiting to be unraveled. This is the story of the legendary, Megan Boyd.
Mark Adams, SCREEN DAILY: “An elegant and fascinating delight, Kiss The Water is made with insight, intelligence and a painterly delight…” - READ MORE
LINSANITY
by Evan Jackson Leong
USA / 2013 / 88' / English / Documentary 
Featuring: Jeremy Lin
Official Selections: Sundance 2013, Hong Kong, Zurich 
Synopsis:
Basketball super star, Jeremy Lin's inspirational story long before that fateful month and at a time when Lin was still struggling to find a place in the NBA.
Justin Lowe, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: “A sports doc with abundant heart persuasively chronicles the emergence of a global phenomenon.”
 
MONSOON SHOOTOUT
by Amit Kumar
India / 2013 / 88' / Hindi / Police Drama, Thriller 
Cast: Vijay Varma, Nawazuddin Siddiqi
Official Selections: Cannes, Montreal, St. Petersburg, Fantastic Fest, Helsinki, Hawaii, Chicago, Sitges, Stockholm 
Synopsis:
A rookie cop’s moment of reckoning, to shoot or not to shoot!
Deborah Young, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: “A cunningly intricate first film from India, Monsoon Shootout combines the best of two worlds – a ferocious Mumbai cops and gangsters drama, and a satisfyingly arty plot that turns in on itself to examine the outcome of three possible choices a rookie cop might make when he confronts a ruthless killer.” - READ MORE
SIDDHARTH
Directed by Richie Mehta
Canada, India / 2013 / 96’ / Hindi / Drama 
Official Selection: Venice, Toronto, London, Mumbai
Cast: Rajesh Tailang, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Anurag Arora, Geeta Agrawal Sharma, Naseeruddin Shah
Synopsis:
A heart-wrenching, beautifully told story of a father from  Delhi travelling across India in search of his young son, who may have been taken by human traffickers when he was sent to work illegally in a nearby factory.
Jay Weissberg, VARIETY: “Richie Mehta's engrossing, multi-layered film is a movingly handled story of a child's disappearance.” - READ MORE
 
UPCOMING FILMS
CAMERA
Directed by James Leong
Singapore, Hong Kong / 2013 / 95' / Cantonese, Mandarin / Suspense, Thriller 
Status: Completed
Cast: Sean Li, Venus Wong, Calvin Poon Yuen Leung 
Synopsis:
Ming is a surveillance expert with an obsession - he wants to film everything he sees. It’s a compulsion born of a childhood accident, which left him blind in one eye. Following a design he believes his father left him, Ming builds a miniature camera which he installs in his bad eye, restoring his sight and allowing him to record everything he sees. He becomes the perfect surveillance device.
DJINN
Directed by Tobe Hooper
UAE / 2013 / 86' / English, Arabic / Supernatural Horror Thriller 
Status: Completed
Cast: Khalid Laith, Razane Jammal
Synopsis:
Renowned genre master Tobe Hooper returns to form with DJINN, a powerful story of a young Emirati couple who return home only to discover that their new apartment in a luxury high-rise is also home to the malevolent beings known as Djinn.
HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES
Directed by John Cameron Mitchell
USA / English / Romance, Sci-Fi, Music 
Status: Pre-production
 
Synopsis:
Based on a science fiction short story by Neil Gaiman, HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES is about a couple of British 1970s wannabe punk rocker teenage boys, Enn and Vic, who head to a party to meet girls, only to find that the girls there are much different than they could have ever imagined.
 
LOVE IS STRANGE
Directed by Ira Sachs
USA / 2014 / English / Drama 
Status: In production
Cast: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei
 
Synopsis:
After 28 years together, Ben and Jorge tie the knot in a City Hall wedding in lower Manhattan. On the return from their honeymoon, Ben gets fired from his longtime job. Suddenly, with no real savings to count on, the couple finds that they can’t afford the rent on their small Chelsea apartment and married life is absolutely not what they expected it to be.
       
NED RIFLE
Directed by Hal Hartley
USA / English / Drama
Status: Pre-production
Cast: Parker Posey, Liam Aiken, Thomas Jay Ryan,
James Urbaniak
Synopsis:
Henry and Fay's son, Ned, sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome, sexy, and hilarious Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Grim family. A funny, sad, and sexy adventure, Ned Rifle is an intellectually stimulating and compassionate satire.
SUNSET SONG
Directed by Terence Davies
UK / English / Epic Drama 
Status: Pre-production
Based on the original novel by: Lewis Grassic Gibson
Cast: Peter Mullan, Agyness Deyn 
Synopsis:
Set in the early 20th century, Chris Guthrie suddenly finds herself running the farm and raising her siblings after her mother’s death and her father’s incapacity. But when love comes to Chris she must send her man off to the Great War and manage the farm in a land about to be changed forever by the onset of technology and war.
 
UNFRIEND
Directed by Joselito Altarejos
Philippines / 2013 / 93' / Filipino / Drama
Status: Completed
Cast: Sandino Martin, Angelo Ilagan, Boots Anson-Roa
Synopsis:
On Christmas Day, DAVID, 15, finds out that his boyfriend, JONATHAN, 17, has taken another lover. The discovery leads him on the brink of depression making him think of ways to get him back at all cost.
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