HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTION
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LIFE DURING WARTIME
Directed by Todd Solondz
<Best Screenplay, Venice 2009>
<Best Actress, Mar del Plata 2009>
USA, 2009, 96’, English, Drama
Cast: Shirley Henderson, Ciarán Hinds, Allison Janney, Charlotte Rampling, Paul Reubens, Ally Sheedy, Michael Lerner
Solondz revisits the extended Jordan family in LIFE DURING WARTIME, a part sequel/ part variation on his acclaimed film HAPPINESS. Ten years have passed since a series of shocking and catastrophic revelations shattered the world of the Jordans. Now, ghosts circle and loom, trouble and console, as the family members are each embroiled in their own dilemmas.
Screenings
23 Mar (Tue)
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7:30PM
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THE GRAND CINEMA
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27 Mar (Sat)
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6:15PM
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THE GRAND CINEMA
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31 Mar (Wed)
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5:30PM
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THE GRAND CINEMA
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UPCOMING TITLES
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THE PROMISED LAND
Directed by Michael Winterbottom
UK, 2010, English, Political Crime-Thriller
Cast: Colin Firth (BAFTA Best Actor & Oscar nominated Best Actor for A SINGLE MAN), Jim Sturgess (21, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE), Matthew Macfadyen (FROST/NIXON, PRIDE & PREJUDICE)
THE PROMISED LAND is a police-thriller set in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem during the British Mandate era in Palestine. It tells the gripping true story of two British police officers Thomas Wilkin (Sturgess), and Geoffrey Morton (Macfadyen) and their battle to bring to an end the campaign of bombings and assassinations by the extreme right-wing Jewish underground led by the charismatic poet, Avraham Stern.
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REIGN OF ASSASSINS [JIANYU JIANGHU]
Directed by Su Chao-Pin
Co-Directed by John Woo
China/ Hong Kong/ Taiwan, 2010, Mandarin, Action Thriller
Producer: Terence Chang, John Woo
Cast: Michelle Yeoh (TOMORROW NEVER DIES; CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON), JUNG Woo Sung (THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD), Kelly Lin (MAD DETECTIVE), Guo Xiaodong (TRUE LEGEND), Wang Xueqi (BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS), Shawn Yue (INFERNAL AFFAIRS), Barbie Hsu (HOT SUMMER DAYS)
FACE/OFF meets MR AND MRS SMITH in ancient China – Set in 428AD, the film stars Yeoh as a skilled assassin who falls in love with the son of a man who was killed by her gang. Unaware that he also is a trained martial artist, their love blossoms and then tensions rise as the past comes back to haunt them.
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NORWEGIAN WOOD
Directed by Tran Anh Hung
Japan, 2010, Japanese, Romance/ Drama
Original Story: Based on the best-selling novel by Haruki Murakami
Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama (DEATH NOTE), Rinko Kikuchi (BABEL – Oscar nominated Best Supporting Actress), Kiko Mizuhara
Watanabe, a Tokyo college student, is deeply devoted to Naoko, a withdrawn woman scarred by the death of their best friend. But he is forced to choose between his future and his past when a girl, who is everything that Naoko is not, marches into his life.
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GRIFF THE INVISIBLE
Directed by Leon Ford
Australia, 2010, English, Romance/ Comedy
Producer: Nicole O'Donohue
Executive Producers: Jan Chapman (BRIGHT STAR), Scott Meek (VELVET GOLDMINE)
Cast: Ryan Kwanten (HBO’s TRUE BLOOD), Maeve Dermody (BEAUTIFUL KATE)
Griff, office worker and odd-man-out by day, superhero by night, has his world turned upside down when he meets Melody, a beautiful scientist. Two people who found everyone else odd suddenly find, in each other, their perfect partner. Together, these two wannabe superheroes set out to conquer the world only to discover that the greatest superpower is love.
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DREAM HOME
Directed by Pang Ho-Cheung
Hong Kong, 2010, Cantonese, Slasher/ Action
Cast: Josie Ho (EXILED; STREET FIGHTER – THE LEGEND OF CHUN LI), Eason Chan (LADY COP & PAPA CROOK, TRIVIAL MATTERS)
As a child, Cheng Lai-sheung could see Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour from her apartment. But as time passed, her view became blocked and she vowed to move into an apartment with a sea view. But her dream home seems forever out of reach… until she takes matters into her own hands.
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SANDCASTLE
Directed by Boo Junfeng
Singapore, 2010, English/ Mandarin/ Hokkien, Drama
Executive Producers: Eric Khoo, Michael J. Werner, Nelleke Driessen
Cast: Joshua Tan, Elena Chia
En is an 18-year-old who is waiting for his enlistment into the army. As his family is drawn together in a sudden tragedy, En has to decide where his loyalty lies and stand up for what he believes in. But in a country where ideologies are forged on constantly shifting sands, he finds himself struggling to stay true to what he knows to be right.
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MAGIC BUS
Directed by Alex Gibney
USA, 2010, English, Documentary
Producer: Will Clarke (THIS IS ENGLAND; DEAD MAN’S SHOES)
1964. Between mindless optimism and fears of nuclear annihilation, what kind of future was it possible to imagine? One man was determined to find out – Ken Kesey, the famed author of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST, decides to take a mythic trip across America, from West to East. Joined by a wacky group in a painted bus, he sets out on the ultimate road trip.
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NEW TITLES
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WINTER’S BONE
Directed by Debra Granik
<Grand Jury Prize & Screenwriting Award, Sundance 2010>
<C.I.C.A.E. Prize & Tagesspiegel Readers’ Prize, Berlin 2010>
USA, 2010, 100’, English, Drama
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Dale Dickey
Synopsis: 17 year old Ree Dolly embarks on a mission to find her father, after he uses their family house as a way of securing his bail and disappears without a trace. Faced with the possibility of losing her home, Ree challenges her outlaw kin’s code of silence and risks her life in order to piece together the truth to save her family.
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THE HAIRDRESSER [DIE FRISEUSE]
Directed by Doris Dörrie
Based on the Screenplay by Laila Stieler
Germany, 2010, 106’, German, Comedy
Cast: Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Natascha Lawiszus, Ill-Young Kim
When the Berlin wall came down, everyone waited to see what would happen when the East collided with the West. What this translates to in Kathi’s hairdressing salon is diplomacy in a peroxide bottle! Despite constant setbacks hindering the opening of her salon, Kathi perseveres in what is a colorful, if yet uncertain, journey.
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THE SHOCK LABYRINTH: EXTREME
Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Japan, 2010, 89’, Japanese, Thriller/ Horror
Cast: Yuya Yagira (Best Actor, Cannes 2004 for NOBODY KNOWS), Ai Maeda (BATTLE ROYALE 2; DEATH NOTE: THE LAST NAME)
The Shock Labyrinth marks Japan's first foray into the world of live-action 3-D feature films. A girl accompanied by her friends disappears at an amusement park’s ghost house. Ten years later, she inexplicably returns and reunites with her former friends. However, she soon collapses and is rushed to a bizarre hospital where the group sinks deeper and deeper into the events that led to Yuki’s disappearance a decade before.
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ROAD, MOVIE
Directed by Dev Benegal
India/ USA, 2009, 95’, Hindi, Romantic Drama
Cast: Abhay Deol, Satish Kaushik, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Mohammed Faizal
Vishnu, a restless young man, rejects his father's faltering hair oil business and hits the road with a traveling cinema. Along the way, he reluctantly picks up a young runaway, a wandering old entertainer and a striking mysterious woman.
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JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD
Directed by Tamra Davis
USA, 2010, 90’, English, Documentary
Featuring: Julian Schnabel, Larry Gagosian, Bruno Bischofberger
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD is the first feature length documentary biography about artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. In his short career, Basquiat was a phenomenon. He became notorious for his graffiti art under the moniker Samo, sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200, and became best friends with Andy Warhol.
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FILMART Office: HKCEC, Hall 1, Booth No: 1K20 & 1L19
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