Around 230 titles from 65 territories would be screened at the forthcoming 41st Hong Kong International Film Festival. The filmfest would spotlight Taiwan and pay a 10th anniversary tribute to the late Edward Yang, Best Director awardee at Cannes Film Festival for his 2000 movie “Yi Yi.”
Celebrating 2 Decades of Hong Kong Turnover
As part of the tribute, some of Yang’s best films such as “Taipei Story” and “A Brighter Summer Day” would be shown. The filmfest would also have a section dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to China by Britain. Among the movies to be shown in this section is the restored version of “Made in Hong Kong” by Fruit Chan and other movies in the special administrative region produced after 1997, Variety reported.
Other Hong Kong-made films to be shown, according to Screendaily, are Stephen Chow’s 2001 movie “Shaolin Soccer,” Andre Lau and Alan Mak’s 2002 film “Internal Affairs” and Johnnie To’s 2005 movie “Election.” Lam Kam-po, Colin Geddes and Stephen Teo, experts on Hong Kong cinema, would hold a seminar.
60 Movies Hold Premieres
The event would have 60 movies holding their world, international and Asian premieres. The lineup of these movies was announced on Wednesday at the ongoing FilMart market in Hong Kong. To close the festival on April 25 is “Mon mon on Monsters,” the second film as director of Giddens Ko, a prolific Taiwanese writer, director and novelist who crafted “You Are the Apple of My Eye” and wrote the script for “The Tenants Downstairs.”
Other movies slated to be shown at the filmfest include “On Body and Soul” by Ildiko Enyedi, a Hungarian director whose film won the Golden Bear Best Film award at the Berlin Film Festival. There is also “Personal Shopper” by French director Olivier Assayas and “Spoor” by Agneszka Holland, jury head for the Firebird Young Cinema Competition and winner of the Berlin Silver Bear Best Movie award.
To open the filmfest is “Love Off the Cliff,” the third installment of Pang Ho-cheung’s romantic comedy series that stars Shawn Yue and Miriam Yeung.