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John Woo epic leads
Galloping Horse slate
BY LIZ SHACKLETON
Like Father, Like Son
Kore-eda’s
Father knows
best for Gaga
BY JEAN NOH
Japan’s Gaga Corporation has sold
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Like Father,
Like Son to Hong Kong and Macau
(Edko) and Taiwan (Filmware).
Leading Japanese singer and
actor Fukuyama Masaharu stars as
a man who finds out six years into
his son’s life that the hospital had
switched babies and he must
choose between his biological son
or the one he and his wife have
been raising as their own.
Produced by Fuji Television Network, Amuse Inc and Gaga, the
film is set for release in Japan on
October 5. Wild Bunch handles
sales outside Asia.
Gaga is also hosting the market
premiere of Mourning Recipe,
directed by Yuki Tanada (The Cowards Who Looked To The Sky). The
film stars Hiromi Nagasaku
(Rebirth), Renji Ishibashi (Outrage), Masaki Okada (Confessions)
and Fumi Nikaido (Himizu).
In the film, Yuriko returns to her
parents’ house after deciding to get
a divorce and finds a “recipe book
for life” left by her recently deceased
mother. Gaga is due to release the
film in Japan this autumn.
China’s Beijing Galloping Horse
Film & TV Production (BGH) is
unveiling an ambitious new production slate at Filmart, headed by
John Woo’s next film as director,
which is scheduled to start shooting in mid-May.
Scripted by Wang Huiling (Lust,
Caution), the as-yet-untitled romantic epic follows six characters and
their intertwining love stories set
against the backdrop of 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai. BGH is producing the $30m film along with Woo
and Terence Chang’s Lion Rock
Productions, China Film Group and
Zhejiang Huace Film & TV.
The cast will include Zhang Ziyi
and Korean actress Song Hye-kyo,
who both recently starred in Wong
Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster. The
producers are also in talks with
Andy Lau and Tong Dawei.
“It is the same story we’ve been
John Woo
working on for six years although it
keeps getting better and better,”
Chang told Screen. “It involves recreating battles from World War II and
the Chinese Civil War, along with an
incident from the 1940s when a ship
sunk off the coast near Shanghai.”
Digital Domain, which BGH
and India’s Reliance jointly
acquired last year, will work on the
film’s visual effects.
BGH vice chairman Ivy Zhong
Media Asia moves onto Campus
BY LIZ SHACKLETON
Hong Kong’s Media Asia Films has
picked up international rights
(excluding Taiwan) to comedy
Campus Confidential, produced by
Taiwan’s Su Chao-pin and Jimmy
Huang.
Starring Chen Bolin and Chen
Yi Han, the $2.5m film is directed
by Su’s protégé Lai Chunyu and
produced by Su and Huang’s Unit
9 Pictures.
CMC Entertainment has Taiwanese rights to the film, which is
scheduled to wrap on March 23.
(June 15-23). The Australian
Embassy in Beijing is organising
the event in conjunction with the
Shanghai Media and Entertainment
Group.
This year’s forum will focus on
3D, post production, and digital and
visual effects. It will feature panel
discussions, workshops and
HanWay strikes
China VoD deal
BY LIZ SHACKLETON
Campus Confidential
The film is about a love superstition put to the test when a beauty
queen meets a college nerd.
Media Asia is also handling
sales on Arvin Chen’s Will You Still
Love Me Tomorrow?.
Australian delegation returns to China
An official delegation of Australian
film producers, bureaucrats and
film service company
representatives are heading to
China for the third round of formal
meetings in four years.
The Australia-China Film Industry
Forum will be held to coincide with
Shanghai International Film Festival
added that the film is one of a slate
of around eight Chinese-language
films the company is producing this
year. BGH has also established an
international sales arm, headed by
Ronan Wong, which will handle the
entire slate including Woo’s film.
The slate also includes movie
adaptations of two Chinese TV
series: The Legend Of Zhen Huan,
about Qing Dynasty palace intrigue,
and war drama Soldier Ge Erdan.
BGH is also developing action
comedy Get Rio, scripted by Shu
Ping and directed by Wei Xiao,
who are both regular collaborators
with Jiang Wen.
The company is also developing
English-language action adventure Two-Gun Cohen (working
title) about a UK adventurer who
became aide-de-camp to Sun Yatsen. Zhong is looking for a new
director after Doug Liman dropped
out due to other commitments.
networking events. The Australian
government’s film development
and investment agency Screen
Australia, Screen Producers
Association of Australia,
marketing body AusFilm and
Australia-China Screen Alliance
are all involved.
Sandy George
HanWay Films’ London-based specialist film division HanWay Select
has signed a subscription VoD deal
with Sohu Video, the VoD arm of
Chinese internet giant sohu.com.
The non-exclusive deal covers
titles from HanWay’s branded filmmakers’ collections, such as the
British Film Institute Collection,
the Wim Wenders Collection and
the Jeremy Thomas catalogue,
among others. Sohu subscribers
will be able to access titles such as
David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch,
Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Sheltering Sky, John Maybury’s Love Is The
Devil and Wim Wenders’ Paris,
Texas and Wings Of Desire.
HanWay Select director of sales
& distribution Fabien Westerhoff
said the deal is an example of the
company’s ongoing strategy to
push independent film in the digital space globally. The deal also
increases the availability of arthouse product in China’s booming
online video market.
TODAY
Ip Man — The Final Fight
REVIEWS
Fighting chance
A nostalgic look at the later years of
the martial arts master in Ip Man —
The Final Fight
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HAF PROFILES
Twin terrors
Veteran AD Lam Suk Ching will make
her feature directorial debut with
HAF project When I Come To Me
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FEATURE
Lost treasure
Enlight Media president Wang
Changtian on the enormous boxoffice success of Lost In Thailand
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Buyers not
afraid of
Commitment
BY JEAN NOH
Showbox/Mediaplex has sold
teenage North Korean assassin
thriller Commitment to multiple
territories including North America (Well Go USA Entertainment)
and German-speaking Europe
(Splendid Films).
Directed by Park Hong-su, the
film has also sold to Hong Kong
(Golden Scene), Singapore
(Golden Village), Malaysia and
Brunei (Hwa Yea Multimedia),
Thailand and Cambodia (M Pictures) and Taiwan (Serenity Entertainment).
The film stars Choi Seung-hyun,
also known as T.O.P. from K-pop
group Big Bang.
The film is about a teenage
killer (Choi) from North Korea
who volunteers after his father’s
botched espionage mission to
infiltrate South Korea. Posing as
an ordinary schoolboy, he finds
himself killing people in order to
protect his younger sister.
The film is in post-production
and tentatively scheduled for an
autumn release.
Showbox is also selling Yoon
Jong-chan’s classical music drama
My Paparotti, which is making its
market premiere here at Filmart;
and upcoming boy-trio spy action
film Secretly Greatly, directed by
Jang Cheol-soo (Bedevilled) and
starring Kim Soo-hyun (The
Thieves).
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Free Stone
takes on trio
enter
Haneke doc sells widely Buyers
Finecut’s Cell
By Jean Noh
By Sandy George
Japan’s Free Stone Productions is
launching sales at Filmart on
Yuya Ishii’s human drama
Endroll, Masahide Ichii’s comedy
Blindly In Love and Katsuya Matsumura’s art biopic Tenshin.
A winner of Wowow’s annual
script contest in Japan, Endroll
was previously made into a television drama. Starring Shido Nakamura, Masato Hagiwara and Yuka
Itaya, the film about male friendship is directed by up-and-coming
film-maker Yuya Ishii, whose
credits include Mistuko Delivers.
With rising star Gen Hoshino
in the lead, Blindly In Love is
about a reclusive man in his 30s
who falls in love for the first time
with a blind girl whose father is
opposed to their relationship.
Actress and fashion model Kaho,
whose credits include A Gentle
Breeze In The Village, co-stars. The
film is set for nationwide release
in Japan on June 8.
Tenshin, starring Naoto Takenaka and Shido Nakamura, is
based on the dramatic life story of
Tenshin Okakura, the former
head of the Tokyo School of Fine
Arts who was an early pioneer in
the study of modern Japanese art
in the early 20th century and
started a small art community in
Ibaraki.
Following Friday’s UK theatrical
release by Artificial Eye, Berlinbased sales agent Films Boutique
has reported a slew of sales for the
documentary Michael H Profession: Director including to Madman in Australia, Swallow Wings
in Taiwan and Mongrel in Canada.
Other territories that will look
to take advantage of audience
interest in director Michael
Haneke — whose Amour took the
best foreign-language film Oscar
last month — include Austria
(Filmladen), Poland (Spectator),
Hungary (Cirko Film), ex-Yugoslavia (Demiurg), Germany (Bayerischer Rundfunk for TV ),
Switzerland (ORF for TV), Netherlands (VPRO for TV) and Iran
Michael H Profession: Director
(IRIB for TV). French rights are
with Les Films du Losange.
Films Boutique has also
revealed that Alcine Terran has
picked up Japanese rights for Yariv
Horowitz’s Israeli war film Rock
The Casbah, an award winner in
Berlin Panorama.
Celestial’s Shaw library goes mobile in Taiwan
By Liz Shackleton
Hong Kong-based Celestial Pictures has signed a multi-year distribution deal with Taiwan Mobile
for titles from its Shaw Brothers
library.
The mobile operator’s customer
base will be able to access classic
titles such as Come Drink With
Me, The New One-Armed Swordsman and Have Sword Will Travel
via transactional video-on-
demand (TVoD). The selection
will be expanded regularly
t h r o u g h Ta i w a n Mo b i l e ’s
MyVideo service. Subscribers will
be able to stream each movie for
$1.98 ( nt $59) with unlimited
viewings within 48 hours from
purchase on smartphone, iPad,
tablet or desktop.
Taiwan Mobile is the secondlargest mobile company in Taiwan
with a 35% market share and
Sakomoto to
head UniJapan
UniJapan has announced that
Junichi Sakomoto will take over
as president of the promotional
organisation after Hideyuki Takai
leaves on March 31. Sakomoto is
also president of Shochiku.
In other executive moves,
Yoshishige Shimatani, president
of Toho, has replaced Yusuke
Okada as chairman of the 26th
Tokyo International Film Festival
(TIFF) executive committee.
As previously announced,
Yasushi Shiina, directorexecutive adviser at Kadokawa
Pictures, Kadokawa Shoten, will
take over as director general of
TIFF and TIFFCOM of April 1,
succeeding Tom Yoda who served
as chairman of TIFF for five years.
UniJapan has an umbrella
stand at Hong Kong Filmart with
companies such as Happinet,
Free Stone and Gold View.
UniJapan is holding a Japan
Night reception tomorrow, here
at Filmart.
Jean Noh
Films Boutique’s chief executive Jean-Christophe Simon told
Screen that negotiations continue
with buyers in Belgium, Italy,
Spain, Russia and the US — the
film’s North American premiere
takes place at Tribeca Film Festival in April.
Haneke is renowned for not
talking about himself but Yves
Montmayeur, the director of
Michael H Profession: Director,
has a long-time relationship with
the film-maker.
The documentary includes
unseen footage and excerpts from
most of his films, and exclusive
interviews with Isabelle Huppert,
Emmanuelle Riva, Juliette Binoche, Béatrice Dalle and Jean-Louis
Trintignant among others.
more than 6.8 million subscribers. The MyVideo service was
launched in December 2012 and
offers more than 1,000 film titles
from Taiwan, the US, Europe,
Korea and Japan.
Celestial has previously signed
mobile VoD deals in Malaysia and
Indonesia, but the deal with Taiwan Mobile marks its first licensing deal with a mobile platform in
Taiwan.
WIDE Management has taken on
sales for Shanghai Belle, the first
film in the planned Skin Territory
Trilogy, about party girls. JeanLouis Daniel directs the Englishlanguage French production,
which stars Xin Wang, Marie
Février, Elena Kuletskaya and Kate
Rozz. The story follows a Chinese
girl who moves to Paris to become
a model. L’Atalante and Shijokingo
produce the film, which will be
delivered by the end of the month.
WIDE’s Clémentine Hugot is
attending Filmart.
Conference connects books and film
By Screen Staff
Indian novelist Chetan Bhagat is
among the speakers at Filmart’s
conference ‘Book-To-Screen
Projects In Today’s Box Office
Hits’, to be held tomorrow from
10:00am-12:00pm on the stage in
Hall 1 of the HKCEC.
Chetan’s bestselling novels
include Five Point Someone, One
Night @ The Call Center, 2 States
and Revolution 2020.
Chetan is joined by Marysia
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Juszczakiewicz, founder of Hong
Kong-based Peony Literary Agency,
who has worked on adaptations
including The Flowers Of War; Stu
Levy, president of manga specialists Tokyopop and also a director
and producer; and Michael Tolkin,
the US film-maker and novelist
best known for The Player.
The focus will be on opportunities for book-to-film adaptations
for the Asian market. Topics of discussion will include trends in
types of books and comics that are
being adapted successfully; what
producers and directors need to
know about optioning literary
material; crossover marketing of
books and films; how the author
fits into the film-making process;
and what Asian producers can
learn from successful Western
book-to-film adaptations.
Screen International editor
Wendy Mitchell will moderate the
discussion, which has been organised by the Hong Kong Trade
Development Council.
By Jean Noh
Finecut has announced a slew of
deals for Miracle In Cell No. 7 — the
record-breaking hit in Korea that
has clocked up more than 12 million admissions. The heartwarming
drama sold to Japan (Comstock
Group), Taiwan (Flash Forward
Entertainment), Hong Kong (Intercontinental Film Distributors) and
Thailand (JoyNContents).
Directed by Lee Hwan-kyung
and distributed in South Korea by
Next Entertainment World, the
film is about a falsely imprisoned
man with a low IQ, whose young
daughter is smuggled into his cell.
Finecut also sold rom-com Love
911 to Japan (Twin), Taiwan (Eagle
International) and Vietnam theatrical rights only to Lotte Cinema.
Ile-de-France
increases
Filmart profile
By Melanie Goodfellow
Ile-de-France Film Commission, a
key supporter of international film
and TV productions shooting in
Paris and the surrounding region,
is out in force at Filmart.
“We want to consolidate existing relationships and connect with
new directors and producers,” said
the commission’s CEO, OlivierRené Veillon. The commission is
bringing eight Ile-de-Francebased companies to the market,
comprising line producer Bayoo,
post-production outfits Knightworks and Kode Agency, production houses Paramax Films, Swan
& Les Films du Cygne and Zorba
Production, new media company
Under The Milky Way and Parisbased talent agency ECI, which
also has offices in Beijing and Los
Angeles.
Bayoo is a key player for Chinese companies filming in France
while Zorba Productions is coproducing Song Chuan’s Ciao Ciao
with Chinese production company
Sou Yu Films.
France is becoming a popular
destination for Asian productions,
as Chinese companies in particular
up their production budgets and
ambitions, says Veillon. Recent
shoots include Chinese Zodiac.
The commission hosts a conference today at 14:30 looking at new
incentives and financing opportunities for international productions in France (see p22).
The presentation will focus on
changes to France’s Tax Rebate for
International Production (TRIP).
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Welcome
On behalf of the Hong Kong Trade
Development Council (HKTDC),
welcome to the
Hong Kong International Film & TV
Market (FILMART), the region’s top
film mart and
one of the world’s most important
film industry events. This 17th edit
ion of FILMART
features over 700 exhibitors from
30 countries and regions, a new
exhibitor record for
the show.
Nearly 6,000 buyers from more than
50 countries and regions are exp
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part in the four-day event, 18-21
March.
More than 30 group pavilions are
participating, including new pavilion
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FILMART highlights include the sev
enth edition of TV World, which wel
comes more than 250 exhibitors
around the world. ‘TV Programm
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The ACE Co-production Lab Hon
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with about 20 Asian and European
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entertainment industry gathering.
expo offers nine multimedia events
This year’s
covering film, television, digital ente
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Reviews edited by Mark Adams [email protected]
Ip Man — The Final Fight
In brief
Reviewed by Edmund Lee
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
Asian Premiere/Gala. Dir/scr: Arvin Chen.
Tai. 2013. 104mins
A warm flourish of music over a vista of Taipei rooftops opens Will You Still Love Me
Tomorrow? with the sense we are in early
Woody Allen territory — an impression borne
out by the film’s quirky love predicaments.
But this Taiwanese romantic comedy develops with its own anti-conventional twists,
being the coming-out story of a married man
conflicted over whether to return to the gay
life he had before marrying. While there is
much to endear here, it lacks the memorable
bite to have much crossover potential beyond
its home territory and niche festivals.
Carmen Gray
CONTACT MEDIA ASIA
www.mediaasia.com
Motorway
Hong Kong Panorama. Dir: Pou-Soi Cheang.
HK-Chi. 2012. 85mins
A slickly shot action-thriller that could benefit
from the popularity of car-chase films such as
Drive and the Fast & Furious series, Motorway
(Che sau) is a smart bit of full-throttle entertainment. While the story is pretty straightforward, Motorway moves with a high-octane
energy. The film eschews celebrating the
criminal fraternity and sticks on the side of
law-and-order as it follows veteran cop Lo
Fung (Anthony Wong) and eager rookie
Chan Cheung (Shawn Yue), who are part of
Hong Kong police’s Invisible Squad, a unit
that uses fast cars to chase speedsters.
Mark Adams
CONTACT MEDIA ASIA
www.mediaasia.com
The Black Square
International premiere. Dir/scr: Hiroshi
Okuhara. Jap. 2012. 144mins
A leisurely arthouse delve into time and
space, reality and illusion, writer/director
Hiroshi Okuhara’s The Black Square veers
from intellectually intriguing to gently
romantic, and while he should have kept the
film a good deal tighter it remains engagingly artistic. The Black Square offers enough
tantalising moments, though at times it is
too slow-paced and enigmatic. Hideo Nakaizumi makes for an impressively blank lead
— as a mysterious man who appears out of
nowhere with no memory — and has the
charisma to carry the soulful and empty role.
Mark Adams
CONTACT BLACK SQUARE FILM
[email protected]
Although few people other than martial-arts aficionados knew much about him before 2008’s Ip Man,
the Wing Chun master who counted Bruce Lee
among his protégés has headlined five movie outings since, with The Final Fight following Wong Kar
Wai’s The Grandmaster. In a programming decision
that seems to speak more about the movie’s local
sentiments than its artistic idiosyncrasies, Herman
Yau’s action drama premiered last night as the opening film of Hong Kong International Film Festival.
With its chronically nostalgic tone, The Final
Fight sometimes plays like Echoes Of The Rainbow
(2010) featuring Ip Man. A watchable if far-frommemorable view on the character’s later years, the
movie is indeed the second take on the legendary
figure by the prolific Yau. If his clearly fictionalised
The Legend Is Born — Ip Man (2010) was a fluffy
crowd-pleaser that functioned more or less as a prequel to the other recent Ip Man biopics, the new
movie may be regarded as a sequel of sorts to the
rest, as the film-maker casts his regular leading man
Anthony Wong as an ageing master living a tough
but dignified life in turbulent post-war Hong Kong.
While Yau and Wong established their cult status together with such 1990s horror classics as The
Untold Story and Ebola Syndrome, the actor’s rather
human portrait of Ip Man could not be further
apart from those crazed early roles.
Wong lends a new dimension to the grandmaster
The Berlin File
Reviewed by Jason Bechervaise
Arguably one of the most high-profile South
Korean releases of 2013, Ryoo Seung-wan’s The
Berlin File continues to adopt Ryoo’s visual trademark through pulsating and spectacular set-pieces
that will help further boost the film’s local and
international appeal, but its overall quality is hindered by a convoluted plot.
The film follows North Korean agent Jong-sung
(Ha) who is forced to flee an illegal arms deal that
takes place in a Berlin hotel, which is being
observed by a number of agents including South
Korean intelligence operative Jin-Soo (Han) who
then pursues him.
Furthermore ruthless North Korean agent
Myung-Soo (Ryoo) then seeks to investigate the
loyalties of those involved, and attempts to implicate Jong-sung’s wife (Jun) who works at the
North Korean embassy as a translator. Torn
between his wife and country, Jong-sung sets out
to seek the truth.
The Berlin File succeeds in part due to its
enthralling action set-pieces superbly orchestrated
by Ryoo together with his director of photography
Choi Young-hwan and his stunt director Jung Doohong, which are bound to attract interest.
Shot almost entirely on location in Berlin and in
the Latvian capital Riga, Ryoo captures an eerie
post-Cold War Berlin that seems unable to shrug
World premiere
— opening night
HK-Chi. 2013. 102mins
Director Herman Yau
Production companies
National Arts Films
Production Limited,
Emperor Film Production
Company Limited
International sales
Emperor Motion Pictures,
www.emp.hk
Producers Checkley Sin,
Albert Lee
Executive producers
Checkley Sin, Albert Yeung
Screenplay Erica Li
Cinematography Joe
Chan
Editor Azrael Chung
Production designer
Raymond Chan
Music Brother Hung
Action choreographers
Li Chung-chi, Checkley Sin
Main cast Anthony Wong,
Gillian Chung, Jordan
Chan, Eric Tsang, Marvel
Chow, Zhou Chuchu,
Xiong Xinxin
as he mentors his students (Jordan Chan and Gillian
Chung, among others), finds an unlikely partner in
a beautiful songstress (Zhou Chuchu) after the
death of his wife, and finally fights his way into the
Kowloon Walled City to save a student from a mythical fighter-cum-criminal kingpin (Xiong Xinxin).
But the soul of this movie is in its tireless references to the historical and social conditions of
1950s and ’60s Hong Kong, whose street views are
recreated in vibrant colours. The character of Bruce
Lee does show up briefly in the last reel, though the
cameo — which largely obscures the character’s
face and shows him as something of a Westernised
prodigal son opposite Ip Man’s humble presence
— is unlikely to impress many of his fans.
Despite its title, The Final Fight is arguably the
least but certainly not the last we will see of Ip Man
on the big screen: the 3D final chapter of the Donnie Yen-starring, Wilson Yip-directed Ip Man trilogy is expected to wrap filming within the year.
International
premiere
S Kor. 2013. 120mins
Director Ryoo Seung-wan
Production companies
Filmmaker R&K, CJ E&M
International sales
CJ E&M, www.
cj-entertainment.com
Screenplay Ryoo Seungwan and Ted Geoghegan
(English dialogue)
Producers Kang Hye-jung,
Han Jae-deok, Geok Sooran
Cinematography Choi
Yeong-hwan
Editor Kim Sang-beom
Music Jo Young-wook
Main cast Ha Jung-woo,
Han Suk-kyu, Ryoo Seungbeom, Gianna Jun, Kim
Seo-hyung, Lee Geungyoung, Bae Jung-nam
off its past, which provides an interesting backdrop
given the precarious relationship between North
and South Korea that remains a lasting legacy of
the Cold War.
Featuring an all-star cast that includes Ha Jungwoo (The Chaser), Han Suk-kyo (Shiri), Gianna Jun
(The Thieves) and Ryoo’s brother Ryoo Seung-beom
(The Unjust), the level of interest locally is sure to
remain at fever pitch, and though there is a sense
the linguistic demands of their respective roles
sometimes affect their acting, they are all well cast.
Ryoo — who has established a strong reputation
both home and abroad for his energetic and audacious set-pieces in films such as Arahan (2004) and
The City Of Violence (2006) — should keep his status intact, and though questions remain over his
storytelling, this should not prevent his most ambitious project to date from realising its local and
international potential.
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HAF PROFILES
» Adventure p10
» Barber’s Tales p10
» The Golden Cane
Adventure
Barber’s Tales
The Golden Cane Warrior
Countries of origin Kazakhstan-France
Country of origin Philippines
Country of origin Indonesia
Director Nariman Turebayev
Director Jun Robles Lana
Director Ifa Isfansyah
Arizona Productions’ Guillaume de Seille had previously
worked with Kazakh film-maker Nariman Turebayev
some 10 years ago, as the French co-producer on his
debut feature Little Men, which was in competition at
Locarno in 2003. “I met Nariman again in Cottbus when
his second film, Sunny Days, screened there in 2011 and
we kept in contact,” de Seille recalls. “He offered me a
French-language project he had pitched at Spotlight:
New Kazakh Cinema and then a science-fiction film. But,
knowing his universe, I told him to do something poetic.”
Turebayev subsequently sent de Seille “15-20 beautiful pages of treatment, which was a mixture of his own
universe and the problems of a lonely security guard
who falls impossibly in love with a woman”.
For Turebayev, Adventure is a humanistic film: “There
is nothing more interesting than human nature. And I
think plenty of people share my views.”
In February, Arizona received backing from CNC’s
World Cinema Support Scheme for what will be the second Kazakh film it has supported after de Seille accessed
the fund for Emir Baigazin’s debut feature Harmony Lessons last year.
“Thanks to this money and the fact Harmony Lessons
was in Competition at Berlin, Kazakhfilm has confirmed
they will also put up $500,000 of the film’s budget as
they did with Emir’s film,” says the French producer who
expects to raise $100,000-$200,000 from France and is
also looking to bring a German co-producer and regional
fund on board the project. “Coming to HAF is more
about creating a buzz about the film in the Asian arthouse scene,” explains de Seille. Principal photography
on Adventure is planned for June and July 2013.
Martin Blaney
Set in the 1970s, Barber’s Tales is the second in Jun Robles
Lana’s trilogy of films about small-town life in the Philippines. “I long for the simplicity and tradition of rural life.
Filipino society is often depicted as grimy, chaotic and
dangerous. I want to show a more positive side that is not
often shown in films,” Lana says.
When Marilou’s husband dies and she inherits his
generations-old family barbershop, she finds herself discriminated against in a male-oriented business. But after
she extends a kindness to a prostitute, the married men
who frequent the town brothel are eventually persuaded
to patronise her barbershop for fear of having their infidelities exposed.
“Barber’s Tales is actually an old screenplay I have
been developing since 1997 when it won a national
screenwriting competition in Manila,” says Lana. “Thematically, I feel the story of a lady barber defying genderrole expectations in a conservative small town in the
1970s fits in nicely with the issues of identity and choice
that I explored in Bwakaw.”
Bwakaw stars iconic Filipino actor Eddie Garcia, who
won best actor awards at Cinemalaya and the Asia Pacific
Film Festival for his performance as a grumpy gay man
in his seventies who cares for a sick dog. The film also
won other prizes at Cinemalaya and Tokyo and made its
international premiere at Toronto. Garcia is also nominated for best actor at this year’s Asian Film Awards.
Lana is currently holding casting calls for the lead
actress. Garcia and Gardo Versoza, who played the priest
in Bwakaw, will have special roles in the film. Lana’s
Octobertrain Films is producing.
Jean Noh
The Golden Cane Warrior is Ifa Isfansyah’s dream project.
Having grown up on martial-arts comic books, the
award-winning director now wants to direct a film about
ambition, betrayal, death and revenge in the search for a
martial-arts hero who can prevent the fall of a kingdom.
“Even though the story happens in Indonesia, it’s in
the middle of nowhere. It’s the world of warriors,”
explains the director, who says he does not want to be
limited to one particular martial-arts style.
“I prefer to mix fights and dances. I want to entertain
with beautiful choreography — beauty, strength and
speed. It’s not just about fighting, it’s about love, friendship, trust, dignity and integrity,” says Isfansyah.
Isfansyah’s feature debut Garuda Di Dadaku, about a
boy who wants to play in the Indonesian football league,
was well received on its 2009 release. His award-winning second feature, The Dancer, was Indonesia’s entry
for the best foreign-language film category of this year’s
Oscars, while his latest, One Day When The Rain Falls,
was backed by the Hubert Bals Fund and screened at
Rotterdam.
Mira Lesmana, who heads Miles Films with Indonesian director Riri Riza, is producing the project. Lesmana
has produced several of Riza’s films, including box-office
hit and Berlinale title The Rainbow Troops.
“We are at the stage of finalising the script, but at the
same time, we have started the first stage of casting and
also a location recce. Nicholas Saputra will play the role
of the Golden Cane Warrior. We are hoping to start
shooting in November,” says Lesmana.
The project will be at HAF looking for co-producers, a
sales agent and pre-sales.
Jean Noh
Adventure
Barber’s Tales
The Golden Cane Warrior
Producer Guillaume de Seille
Production company Arizona Productions
Budget $800,000
Finance raised to date $500,000 (CNC World Cinema
Producers Ferdinand Lapuz, Perci Intalan, Tonee Acejo
Production company Octobertrain Films
Budget $300,000
Finance raised to date $50,000 (private funding,
Support Scheme, Kazakhfilm)
Contact Guillaume de Seille
[email protected]
pre-sales of Philippine TV rights)
Contact Ferdinand Lapuz
[email protected]
Producer Mira Lesmana
Production company Miles Films
Budget $2m
Finance raised to date $1m (private financing)
Contact Mira Lesmana [email protected]
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» Departure p12
» All About You p12
» One Thousand p12
» When I Come To Me p12
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HAF Profiles
Departure
All About You
One Thousand
When I Come To Me
Country of origin China
Countries of origin Japan
Country of origin Philippines
Country of origin Hong Kong
Director Zhou Hongbo
Director Jang Kun-jae
Director Lawrence Fajardo
Director Lam Suk Ching
“It’s quite horrible to be there filming the
mortician at work,” says Chinese director
Zhou Hongbo, recalling the first day of
shooting his latest documentary Departure.
Filming dead bodies is usually taboo,
but Zhou considers it worthwhile to tell the
story of the professional mortician who
works at more than 300 funerals every
year in the villages around Suzhou.
“For a developing country like China,
people are so involved with money and
power that they don’t remember to give
their love and respect to people,” says Zhou.
“What inspired me about the mortician is
that he still follows the complicated procedures and regulations in the funeral. It’s
only in this moment that families slow
down and meditate.”
Zhou is in a race against time as the villages are being demolished to make way
for new cities and such local burial traditions will soon be lost. Using a 4k HD camera, he began filming last month with four
professional crew members. He intends to
finish the documentary in about two years.
Zhou joined Shanghai TV Station (later
known as Shanghai Media Group) in 1999,
where he made documentaries such as
Lotus Ferry, which screened at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2006.
He recently finished a documentary, Let
Her Finish Her Dance, about a poor girl
from Chengdu who became a ballerina and
danced at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards
(APSA) ceremony in Australia. The documentary is funded by APSA, the Shanghai
Media Group and China Children’s Film
Association. Following their first collaboration on this, Zhou is again working with
producer Li Yuan for his new project.
Silvia Wong
Japanese film-maker Naomi Kawase has
put the city of Nara on the cinema map. By
launching Nara International Film Festival
(NIFF) in 2010, she is also helping young
directors from Asia make their own mark
through NIFF’s NARAtive film development programme.
Now in its fourth year, the NARAtive initiative is branching out to project markets.
NARAtive producer Junko Koide said:
“This is our first time to join HAF. We want
more people in Asia to know about this
project and NARAtive itself.”
Kawase, whose project 2 Ways also
appears in HAF, serves as producer on All
About You, the latest project from up-andcoming Korean director Jang Kun-jae.
Jang’s previous films Sleepless Night and
Eighteen both screened internationally,
winning awards in Asia and the West.
All About You chronicles the enigmatic
relationship between a Korean housewife
living in Nara and a strange man who foretells of a coming tragedy in her life. Not long
after, her husband is killed in a car accident.
Jang developed the story while in Nara.
Despite having Korean characters in the
synopsis, casting has yet to be decided.
Koide explains: “We are considering
whether to use Japanese actors or a mixed
Korean-Japanese cast, which we’ll decide
once the screenplay is complete. Ultimately
we’re aiming to tell a universal story about
humanity that goes beyond language.”
The project is looking for funds and
potential sales agents. Almost half the
$120,000 budget is in place, raised
through revenues generated at NIFF 2012
and support from both Nara Prefecture
and municipal governments in locations
where the film will shoot.
Jason Gray
Inspired by real events in the Philippines,
One Thousand tells the story of a nation
gripped with anticipation when a multinational soft drinks company offers a huge
cash prize for a winning bottle cap number.
Three children and their families are
caught up in the excitement when they discover they have winning bottle caps, and
overcome great difficulties to travel to
Manila to claim their prize, only to find the
company is deciding that their winning
numbers were part of a system error.
“The main incident that inspired the
film happened in the Philippines in 1992,”
says director Lawrence Fajardo. “We used
real accounts and fictionalised characters.”
Fajardo adds: “The main reason we’re
doing this project is to create awareness on
the issue of corporate manipulation, greed
and desperation. The children are innocents caught between these opposing
forces. The film will serve as a reminder to
the new generation.”
The award-winning director’s films,
such as Amok and Shackled, have travelled
to the Busan, Edinburgh and Cairo film
festivals. He will be working again with his
producer and wife Krisma Fajardo, who
has also line produced films such as Loy
Arcenas’ Nino.
“We plan to shoot by September this
year in various regions — Luzon, Visayas
and Mindanao,” says Krisma Fajardo. The
project will be looking for funding at HAF.
Production company Pelikulaw was
founded by the Fajardos and Tessa Aquino
to make high-quality films with top production values. Their first feature Amok
(2011) won the special jury prize at the
DetectiveFEST in Moscow.
Jean Noh
Lam Suk Ching is a veteran assistant director with two decades of experience who
has worked with Hong Kong film-makers
such as Tsui Hark, Gordon Chan and Peter
Ho-sun Chan.
Her portfolio also encompasses international co-productions such as Forbidden
Kingdom and The Kite Runner, both partially filmed in China.
Last year, Lam’s short film Acid won a
special prize in the short film competition
of Hong Kong International Film Festival.
The short, about the infamous acid attacks
from rooftops in the Mongkok district of
Hong Kong, served as her graduation film
from Hong Kong’s City University.
Lam is now ready for a bigger challenge
with her first feature, When I Come To Me.
Part horror and part love story, it is about a
photographer who discovers his dead twin
brother is growing inside his body in the
form of a tumour. The twin brother is back
not only to share his body but also to claim
his pregnant fiancée and take over his life.
“Childhood wounds are an issue we
have to deal with all our life. Sadly some
people deny their wounds as if they never
existed. In the story, the protagonist has no
way to escape as his wounds are buried
inside him,” says Lam, who conceived the
story idea about 10 years ago and has now
completed the script.
Lam’s company Tin Hau is producing
and director Lawrence Lau has come on
board as producer. Lau’s directing credits
include My Name Is Fame, which won Lau
Ching Wan the best actor prize at the Hong
Kong Film Awards in 2007.
The project is seeking funding, co-producers, a sales agent and pre-sales.
Silvia Wong
Departure
All About You
One Thousand
When I Come To Me
Producers Li Yuan
Production cos Chengdu Tanshang Film
Producer Naomi Kawase
Production company Nara International
Works, Shanghai Tanshang Film Works
Budget $120,000
Finance raised to date $3,600 (from
Chengdu Tanshang Film Works)
Contact Li Yuan [email protected]
Budget $120,000
Finance raised to date $50,000
Contact Shinji Kitagawa
Producer Krisma Fajardo
Production company Pelikulaw
Budget $80,000
Finance raised to date $10,000 (private
Producers Lawrence Lau
Production company Tin Hau
Budget $1.3m
Contact Lam Suk Ching
Film Festival
[email protected]
financing)
Contact Krisma Fajardo
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Feature Focus
Screenings, page 18
Lost In Thailand
The road to enlightenment
Low-budget comedy Lost In Thailand has become the biggest local film ever in China and the producers, Enlight Pictures,
are taking the lessons of its success to heart. Liz Shackleton reports
B
ox office records have become a fleeting victory in China. Due to the market’s breakneck
growth, no sooner has one local production
become the highest-grossing Chinese film ever,
than its conquest is swept away by the behemoth
just a few months behind it.
But the success of Xu Zheng’s comedy Lost In
Thailand at the end of last year caught everybody,
including the film’s producers Enlight Pictures, by
surprise. With a $4m budget, it was considered a
relatively small film without major stars. Released
on December 12, it went on to gross more than
$200m, leaving the season’s big-budget blockbusters in the dust. Only Avatar has so far grossed more
in mainland China.
Comedy actor Huang Bo was arguably the film’s
biggest star, following his roles in Ning Hao’s 2006
Crazy Stone and 2009 Crazy Racer. Xu Zheng and
Wang Baoqiang had previously co-starred in 2010
hit comedy Lost On Journey, but neither were big
names and Xu was making his directing debut
with the movie. He shopped Lost In Thailand
around at least four different Beijing studios before
he wound up at Enlight.
‘Sequels and
franchises will
be important as
the audience
responds to
recognisable
brands’
Wang Changtian,
Enlight Media
“Xu Zheng came into my office and for about 20
to 30 minutes acted out the film, scene-by-scene,”
remembers Wang Changtian, president of Enlight
Pictures’ parent company Enlight Media. “Lost On
Journey was popular among young people, although
it hadn’t been a huge hit. So based on the connection to that film, and the cast and story, I thought
Lost In Thailand would make about $11m-$13m
(rmb70m-rmb80m) and we’d break even.”
At that point, Huang Bo was not attached to the
movie. After Wang and Enlight Pictures president
Li Xiaoping persuaded him to come on board,
Wang revised his estimate upwards a little bit.
When he saw the rough cut, he thought it could
probably reach around $48m-$64m (rmb300mrmb400m). But the eventual box office was beyond
his wildest dreams.
Inevitably, there has been much speculation
about why the film has been so popular with Chinese audiences. Xu Zheng plays an ambitious businessman who races to Thailand to stop his boss
selling a new technology, hotly pursued by a jealous
colleague, played by Huang Bo. Wang Baoqiang
plays a simple pancake-maker who Xu’s character
attempts to manipulate during his journey. Commentators speculated that for China’s middle
classes, caught up in the headlong selfish pursuit
of material wealth, the film carries a refreshing
moral message about why the pancake-maker’s
values may actually be the ones to pursue.
While Wang agrees with this theory, he says Lost
In Thailand is also the carefully planned result of a
strategy shift towards making films that are more
directly relevant to mainland audiences and much
more focused on specific genres. “In the past our
industry has produced many films that sent mixed
messages about their genre. They became a mishmash of mainland, Hong Kong and American influences,” says Wang.
“We need to start making very specific films that
are targeted at specific audiences. The trend of the
Chinese film industry will be more like the US, than
Europe, Korea or Japan. Sequels and franchises will
be important as the audience responds to recognisable brands. Sequels also save on marketing costs
and help us to develop new actors.”
This new strategy, which Enlight started to focus
on at the end of 2011, also means the company is »
Feature focus Enlight Pictures
Discovering the process
Experienced screenwriters are also thin on the
ground in China, but Enlight tries to pair new
directors with established writers and guide them
through the development process. Xu Zheng is a
special case; although he had co-writers on Lost In
Thailand, he has studied scriptwriting extensively,
including classes with US screenwriting guru
Robert McKee.
“We never used to get involved in development,”
says Wang. “When we were working with famous
directors, we’d respect their decisions on script,
cast and production, even on budget, and gave
The Assassins
Badges Of Fury
Courtesy of Easternlight Films
lessening its dependence on Hong Kong directors,
stories and acting talent. Launched just five years
ago, Enlight Pictures started out by co-producing
Hong Kong films such as Wilson Yip’s Flash Point
and Andrew Lau’s Legend Of The Fist: The Return
Of Chen Zhen. Wang also formed a partnership
with Hong Kong film-maker Gordon Chan, who
directed hit martial-arts mystery The Four for the
company.
But while some of these films were successful,
many others did not quite hit the mark with mainland audiences. “We felt Hong Kong directors are
not that familiar with what Chinese mainland
audiences are looking for, especially the different
nuances in different parts of the country,” says
Wang. “So we decided to start working more with
mainland directors, with a focus on new talent.”
As the mainland film industry is still in its
infancy, new talent is pretty much all that Wang
had available to him. And even directors with one
or two films under their belt were in scarce supply.
Wang quickly realised he was going to have to create new film-makers, along with projects they
could cut their teeth on.
Some of his new directors, such as Xu Zheng,
are actors who are keen to move behind the camera. Enlight’s upcoming slate includes romantic
drama So Young, the directorial debut of actress
Vicki Zhao Wei, whose acting credits include Red
Cliff and Painted Skin: The Resurrection.
Others, like Zhao Linshan who directed last
year’s period epic The Assassins for Enlight, come
from an advertising background, while Xu
Zhengchao (Sad Fairy Tale) and Wong Tsz Ming
(upcoming action comedy Badges Of Fury) have
worked in TV. Enlight is also developing a project
that will be the directing debut of young Chinese
author Guo Jingming.
‘We are
involved at
every stage to
make sure
we’re all
heading in the
right direction’
Wang Changtian,
Enlight Media
them right away what they asked for. But then
some of the films didn’t turn out the way we
expected. Now we’re involved at every stage to
make sure we’re all heading in the right direction.”
Wang adds that, while the company may still be
earning its chops in production, it has longer experience in distribution, and is a market leader in the
areas of TV programming and integrated marketing.
Launched by Wang as a TV company in 1998,
Enlight Media produces some of China’s biggest
entertainment shows, such as Entertainment Live.
The company is also involved in the advertising
industry, multimedia promotion, award shows,
events and public relations. “We have a deep understanding of the entertainment industry and young
Chinese audiences,” says Wang.
With this built-in platform to promote movies, it
seemed a logical step to first enter film distribution,
building up a nationwide network of distribution
offices, and finally production. Much like China’s
Bona Film Group, Enlight started out by distributing films that it passively co-produced with Hong
Kong studios and then worked its way up the value
chain. In August 2011, Enlight listed on the Shenzhen stock exchange, raising more than $200m to
increase its investment in film and TV production.
Although it co-produced Bait 3D with Australia
and Singapore, Enlight has not been as focused on
setting up international co-productions, or funding
international films, as some of its competitors
have. Nor does it have an international sales
department —preferring to work with existing
sales agents such as Easternlight Films and Hong
Kong-based Golden Network Asia.
“At present we don’t really have time to explore
international co-operation,” explains Wang. “The
biggest problem with co-production is determining who your main audience is — China or another
country — especially on cast choice. And it’s not
easy to sell Chinese films to the international market. But we think the situation will change over the
next three to five years.”
Capitalising on the success of Lost In Thailand,
Enlight worked with AMC Theatres to release the
film in the US at the beginning of February. The
results were modest as road movies, and the moral
lessons of the pancake-maker, are not new concepts for US audiences. But Wang did not have
high expectations and is understandably quite
happy with the film’s local box-office haul.
Now China is speculating about what Xu Zheng
— who tonight picks up the Top-Grossing Asian
Film prize at the Asian Film Awards — will direct
next. Inevitably a sequel to Lost In Thailand is in
the works, although it has not been decided where
Xu will next lose himself. Before that, he is likely to
direct another comedy not related to the hit film.
“Xu Zheng is extremely picky — he has set high
standards for himself both as an actor and with his
directing projects,” says Wang. “He won’t direct
s
anything just for a job.” n
Screenings
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Market
screenings
10:00
AGAIN
(Japan) Drama. 107mins.
HKIFF Industry
Screenings @ Filmart.
Dir: Junichi Kanai. Key
cast: Aoi Yoshikura, Yuya
Yagira.
After her father’s death,
Hatsumi moves to a town
with her lawyer mother.
She feels lonely in this new
life, but one day meets
Ryutaro. Day by day they
became closer to each other.
However, one day Ryutaro
sexually attacks Hatsumi.
Drowning in mixed-up
feelings, Hatsumi makes a
surprising decision about
her future.
Meeting Room N206-207,
HKCEC
ARROWS OF THE THUNDER
DRAGON
market
10:00
See box, right
ARROWS OF THE
THUNDER DRAGON
Guardians
(Australia/Bhutan)
Drama. 91mins. WIDE.
Dir: Greg Sneddon.
Set in the 1970s, ‘Arrows
Of The Thunder Dragon’
follows brother and sister
Kuenphen and Jamyang
learning traditional
archery from their strict
(Germany) Action/
adventure, drama.
130mins. Action Image.
Dir: Til Schweiger. Key
cast: Til Schweiger,
Moritz Bleibtreu, Luna
Schweiger.
Max Fischer, an ex-special
forces soldier, is hired
to protect troubled teen
Nina; troubled because she
witnessed a brutal murder
and some unpleasant
people want her dead.
HKCEC
IN BLOOM
(Georgia) Drama.
102mins. HKIFF Industry
Dir: Nana Ekvtimishvili,
Simon Gross. Key
cast: Lika Babluani,
Mariam Bokeria, Zurab
Gogaladze.
Early 1990s in Tbilissi,
the capital of newly
independent Georgia
after the collapse of the
Soviet Union. The country
is facing violence, war
on the Black Sea coast
and vigilante justice
that plagues society. But
for 14-year-old friends
Eka and Natia, life just
unfolds. Although they are
already dealing with men’s
dominance, early marriage
and disillusioned with
love, for these two girls in
bloom, life just goes on.
Theatre 1, HKCEC
LINSANITY
(US) Documentary.
Dir: Evan Jackson Leong.
Key cast: Jeremy Lin,
Gie-Ming, Shirley Lin,
Josh Lin, Joseph Lin,
Daniel Dae Kim.
In February 2012, the New
York Knicks, mired in a
disappointing season and
out of desperation, looked
to the end of their bench
and found Jeremy Lin, an
undrafted free agent from
Harvard. On the verge of
warrior grandfather.
Kuenphen has
opportunities to further
his interests while sister
Jamyang must stay
home to weave, cook
and get married; a fate
the young woman is not
willing to accept without
a fight.
HKCEC
seeing his lifelong NBA
dream vanish, Lin — at,
or near what was believed
to be his last chance as
an NBA professional,
underwent a nowlegendary run, obliterating
stereotypes along the way,
and in the process birthing
a global phenomenon
known as ‘Linsanity’ —
and the sporting world was
never the same.
Meeting Room N101A, HKCEC
Savannah
(US) Drama, romance.
116mins. Fabrication
Films. Dir: Annette
Haywood-Carter. Key
cast: Jim Caviezel,
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jaimie
Alexander, Sam Shepard,
Hal Holbrook.
Set in the post-civil war
era, this is the true story of
the legendary Ward Allen,
an aristocrat-turnedduck hunter and his
relationships with a freed
slave named Christmas
Moultrie, and the love
of his life, free-spirited
Lucy Stubbs. When Lucy
defies her father’s wishes
to marry the handsome
and bombastic Allen, she
finds that living with him
can be a bigger challenge
than catching him. As
the changing times force
the brilliant but troubled
Ward to challenge the
government, he fights to
preserve his cherished way
of life on the Savannah
river and to keep the
woman he loves.
HKCEC
What They Don’t Talk
About When They Talk
About Love
(Indonesia) Drama.
104mins. HKIFF
Industry Screenings
@ Filmart. Dir: Mouly
Surya. Key cast: Karina
Salim, Ayushita Nugraha,
Nicholas Saputra,
Anggun Priambodo,
Lupita Jennifer.
Fitri, 20 years old and
blind, lives in a school
for young people with
special needs. She is in
love with a ghost doctor,
who turns out to be just
a regular man, named
Edo, who is deaf. If Fitri
could see and Edo could
hear, would their love
survive? Fitri’s classmate
Diana, a myopic, falls for
Andhika, a new student
who lost his eyesight in
an accident. Diana thinks
they are in love but is
Andhika still attached
to Gadis, his beautiful
ex-girlfriend?
Theatre 2, HKCEC
10:15
Trace
(China, Japan)
Documentary. 70mins.
HKIFF Industry
Dir: Huang Ji, Ryuji
Otsuka.
Film-maker Huang Ji with
her Japanese husband
returned to her hometown
for their baby daughter’s
Chinese household register.
They made a home movie
about the trip, during
which the Diaoyu Islands
dispute heated up.
HKCEC
10:30
The Great Passage
HKIFF Industry
Dir: Yuya Ishii. Key cast:
Ryuhei Matsuda, Aoi
Miyazaki, Joe Odagiri.
A dictionary is like a boat
that crosses the ocean of
words… Mitsuya Majime
is an eccentric young man
who joins the team that will
compile a new dictionary,
‘The Great Passage’. While
he becomes immersed in
the world of dictionaries,
Mitsuya has a fateful
encounter with a woman.
Although he is an expert
with words, he is unable to
find the most appropriate
ones to express his feelings
to her. Will The Great
Passage ever be completed?
And will Mitsuya ever be
able to fully express his
feelings?
Meeting Room N201B, HKCEC
11:00
A Girl of Archery
Village
(China) 91mins.
China Film Promotion
International. Dir:
Guangchunlan. Key cast:
Yongdi Huxutao.
HKCEC
Forever Love
(Taiwan) Comedy, drama.
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Dir: Aozaru Shiao,
Toyoharu Kitamura.
Key cast: Blue Lan,
Amber An, Tien Hsin,
Po-Chieh Wang.
Jie’s grandma suffers from
amnesia. She lives in a
dream and believes she is
the wife of a famous movie
star from 1969. Jie doesn’t
understand her grandma’s
obsession until one day,
her grandpa tells her a
dream-like love story that
took place in ‘Hollywood
Taiwan’, where a lot of
movies were made during
that period.
HKCEC
In Fear
(UK) Horror/suspense.
84mins. StudioCanal.
Dir: Jeremy Lovering.
Key cast: Alice Englert,
Iain De Caestecker, Allen
Leech.
A tense, psychological
horror about a young
couple’s fight to make it
through the night. Driving
to a music festival, Tom
and Lucy have plans
to stay at a countryside
hotel. But with hotel signs
leading them in circles
and darkness falling, they
soon become lost in a maze
of country roads… and
the target of an unknown
tormentor.
Agnes b. CINEMA! HK Arts
Centre
12:00
CULT
(Japan) Horror/suspense.
84mins. Eleven Arts.
Dir: Koji Shiraishi.
Popular idols Mari,
Mayuko and Yu investigate
an exorcism for a television
show. The exorcist, Unsui,
possesses incredible psychic
powers. His subjects are
the Kaneda family, a
single mother and her
daughter who experience
paranormal activities
night after night. However,
Unsui finds the demon to
be very strong and requests
help from another exorcist.
The paranormal terror
continues and though
frightened, the idols
continue the investigation,
as an even greater evil
lurks in the shadows. Their
only hope is to turn to
an unconventional ghost
hunter, who seems reckless
and dangerous himself.
Echo Planet
(Thailand) Animation.
80mins. Kantana
Creative Services Co. Dir:
Kompin Kemgumnird.
The planet is in jeopardy.
Global warming has
caused the widespread
formation of heat devils
that are reproducing and
spreading all over the
planet. World leaders
join the president of
Capital State to launch
Cool Bomb missiles,
unaware their technology
will destroy the ozone
layer. Meanwhile, the
president’s son, Sam, is
lost in the jungle on a
scouting vacation. He is
rescued by Norva and
her younger brother
Jorpe, who has a special
gift that allows him to
communicate with nature.
The planet has told him
the only way to stop the
heat devils is to starve
them of energy.
HKCEC
RADICALS
Wither
(US) Children’s. 85mins.
Magic Elevator. Dir:
Berenika Bailey. Key
cast: Adia Dinh, Alyssa
Kennedy, Michela
Crayton, Paris Smith,
Keith Nagel, A’Mani
Simmons, Andre
Kennedy, Jayden Besana,
Tim Taylor.
Eight kids develop
their natural talents to
superhero levels before
confronting a comic-book
inspired villain who is
kidnapping neighbourhood
dogs to pull off the crime
of the century.
(Sweden) Horror/
suspense. 95mins.
Media Mozaika. Dir:
Sonny Laguna, Tommy
Wiklund. Key cast:
Patrik Almkvist, Jessica
Blomkvist, Johannes
Brost.
Ida and Albin are a
happy couple. They set
off to a cabin in the vast
Swedish woodlands to
have a fun holiday with
their friends. But under
the floorboards waits an
evil from Sweden’s dark
past.
HKCEC
HKCEC
12:15
Still Mine
The Kirishima Thing
(Canada) Drama.
102mins. Cinema
Management Group.
Dir: Michael McGowan.
Key cast: James
Cromwell, Genevieve
Bujold.
Emotional true story of
a man who battles the
system when he sets out
to build a more suitable
home for his ailing wife.
See box below
12:30
The Berlin File
(South Korea)
Action/adventure,
drama, horror/
suspense. 110mins. CJ
Entertainment. Dir: Ryoo
Seung-wan. Key cast: Ha
Jung-woo, Han Suk-kyu,
Gianna Jun, Ryoo Seungbeom.
Stationed in Berlin,
North Korean secret
agent Jong-sung and
his wife Jung-hee lead
risky lives. One day,
an informant tells Jongsung that Jung-hee
is a double agent. It
brings about a personal
crisis and a three-way
confrontation on the
outskirts of Berlin.
HKCEC
12:45
One Night and Two Days
(South Korea) Drama,
romance. 157mins.
CinemaDAL. Dir:
Leesong Hee-Il. Key
cast: Won Tae-Hee, Yi
Yi-Kyung, Kim YoungJae, Han Joo-Wan, Kim
Jae-Heung, Chun ShinHwan.
HKCEC
13:00
Avalokitesvara
(China) 90mins.
International. Dir: Zhang
Xin. Key cast: Ryoko
Nakano.
(South Korea) Comedy,
drama. 128mins.
Showbox/Mediaplex.
Dir: Jo Jin-kyu. Key cast:
Park Shin-yang.
A mobster who is well
trusted by his boss becomes
strangely sick… and is
destined to become a
medium.
Child’s Pose
(Romania) Drama.
112mins. Beta Cinema.
Dir: Calin Peter Netzer.
Key cast: Luminita
Gheorghiu, Bogdan
Dumitrache, Ilinca Goia,
Natasa Raab.
Cornelia is 60 and
fundamentally unhappy:
her son, Barbu, 34, fights
with all his might to
become independent. He
has moved out, has his
own car, has a girlfriend
who obviously doesn’t meet
Cornelia’s standards and
— most upsettingly — he
avoids his loving mother
as much as possible.
When Cornelia finds out
that Barbu was involved
in a tragic accident, her
motherly instincts take
over and she uses all her
skills, well-connected
friends and money to
save Barbu from jail.
Will she be able to let go
and unlock him from his
child’s pose?
Agnes b. CINEMA! HK Arts
Centre
11.6
(France) 100mins. Wild
Bunch. Dir: Philippe
Godeau. Key cast:
François Cluzet, Bouli
Lanners, Corine Masiero,
Juana Acosta.
Toni Musulin. Security
guard. Porsche owner.
Loner. Enigma. An
ordinary man seeking
revenge for humiliation
at the hands of his
bosses. A man with a
slow-burning hatred of
the system. And the man
behind the heist of the
century.
HKCEC
Mumbai’s King
Theatre 1, HKCEC
13:45
14:00
Man on the Edge
(India) Children’s,
documentary. 78mins.
All Rights Entertainment.
Dir: Manjeet Singh.
Key cast: Rahul Bairaji,
Arbaaz Kham, Tejas D
Parvatkar.
Rahul, a mischievous
adolescent roams the rainsoaked slums of Mumbai
with Arbaaz, a young
balloon seller. They escape
the harsh reality of life by
roasting stolen potatoes,
stealing an auto rickshaw
for a joyride and chasing
girls.
HKCEC
HKCEC
market
12:15
The Kirishima Thing
(Japan) Drama. 103mins. HKIFF
Industry Screenings @ Filmart. Dir:
Yoshida Daihachi. Key cast: Kamiki
Ryunosuke, Hashimoto Ai, Ohgo
Suzuka.
Their world is the intense hierarchy of
high school. There are those who are ‘in’
and those that are ‘out’. The unspoken
rule is that you know your place and
do not cross the line. One day in the
world of the elite, word comes that the
seemingly perfect Kirishima is quitting
after-school activities. As no-one knows
why, rumours abound and the fragile
ecosystem is plunged into chaos.
Theatre 2, HKCEC
Chiang Kai-shik’s DiaryCession of Mongolia, a
Deal between USA and
Soviet Union
(US) Documentary.
50mins. USIB.
Tells the story of how the
US and Soviet Union cut
Mongolia out of China
without consulting with
the Chinese government
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»
and how Chiang Kai-shek
dealt with it.
Steam Head/
Trainsurfer/Showa
Dynamite
HKCEC
(Japan) Animation.
20mins. P.I.C.S. Co.
Dir: Hiroyuki Nakao.
China’s Black-Listed
Books
HKCEC
(US) Documentary.
50mins. USIB.
Dir: Su Li.
Famous writers of banned
books tell their stories;
publishers expose the
secrets behind the scenes.
16:00
BENUR
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Conspirators
HKCEC
Get Lucky
(US) 85mins. Cinema
Management Group. Dir:
Sacha Bennett. Key cast:
Luke Treadaway, Emily
Atack, Craig Fairbrass,
Marek Oravec, James
Cosmo.
Two brothers living on
the wrong side of the
law become involved in a
casino heist as they avenge
their murdered parents.
Meeting Room N104-N105,
HKCEC
INFECTED
(US) Horror/suspense.
80mins. Magic Elevator.
Dir: Filip Maciejewicz.
Key cast: Dillaran Martin,
Bo Linton, Lara Hunter,
Nina Kate, Adrian
Voo, Adia Dinh Timon
Morales, Kelsey Lin.
A group of seven strangers
try to survive and escape
from an isolated Los
Angeles that has been
infected by a strange virus
that mutates humans.
HKCEC
Love is sin
(Taiwan) Children’s,
drama. 99mins. Double
Edge Entertainment.
Dir: Chao-Liang Huang.
Key cast: Mei-Hsiu Lin,
Akio Chen.
A-mien, a kind and loving
50-year-old woman,
runs a grocery store in a
remote mountain village.
One day, a mysterious
wanderer, Jimmy, appears
in the small village. While
unsure as to the purpose of
Jimmy’s visit, Midori, the
postman, mistakes Jimmy
for a priest. Strangely,
A-mien asks Jimmy to give
her and Yabi, a parentless
child, English classes.
However, the reason
behind A-mien’s interest
in learning English is
market
16:00
BENUR
(Italy) Comedy. 98mins.
Intramovies. Dir:
Massimo Andrei. Key
cast: Nicola Pistoia,
Paolo Triestino,
Elisabetta De Vito,
Teresa Del Vecchio,
Stefano Fresi, Mauro
Mandolini, Stefania
Polentini, Giorgio Carosi.
The story of Sergio, a
former movie stuntman,
who quit after an
accident. Unemployed,
he earns money posing
as a Roman centurion
for tourists at the
Colosseum in Rome.
He lives with his sister
Mary, who makes extra
money working for an
erotic phoneline. Milan
arrives in their lives,
an illegal Belarussian
immigrant, full of
initiative, who begins to
work as a modern slave
in all possible ways. The
encounter turns into
a lucrative enterprise
for Sergio and a love
affair for Maria, with
consequences as desperate
as they are comical.
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becomes ill. Since Yuri has
to work, she unwillingly
leaves him alone at home.
When she returns, she finds
him dead in the bathtub.
After some time has
passed, Mayu, a colleague
of Yuri, tells her about a
mysterious mobile-phone
app that is rumoured to
enable its user to talk to
the dead. Yet it comes with
a warning: never reply if
the dead soul says, ‘I want
to see you’. Yuri blames
herself for her brother’s
death, so she downloads
the app and reaches out
to him.
and from teenagers they
become men.
14:30
PARIS COUNTDOWN
(France) Action/
adventure. 90mins.
Gaumont. Dir: Edgar
Marie. Key cast: Jacques
Gamblin, Olivier
Marchal.
The classical mechanism
of the thriller soon sets in
and builds up a relentless
countdown: get killed or
find a way to escape the
vengeance of a man who
had been betrayed by two
friends a few years earlier.
Theatre 2, HKCEC
Youth
unknown. It turns out
that with the start of the
English classes, there
comes a sense of change
throughout the village.
Petal Dance
HKCEC
HKIFF Industry
Dir: Hiroshi Ishikawa.
Saving General Yang
NINJA KIDS: Summer
Mission Impossible
(Japan) Action/
adventure, children’s,
comedy. 90mins. Sedic
International. Dir: Ryuta
Tasaki. Key cast: Seishiro
Kato, Roi Hayashi, Juri
Shingetsu, Hiroki Uchi.
It’s summer vacation.
Rantaro and his goofy
friends at the Ninja
Academy must retrieve
a stolen magic sword
against great odds… so
they won’t have to take
on extra schoolwork.
(Hong Kong) Action/
adventure, war. 102mins.
HKIFF Industry
Dir: Ronny Yu. Key
cast: Adam Cheng,
Ekin Cheng, Vic Chou,
Raymond Lam, Wu
Chun, Yu Bo.
Theatre 1, HKCEC
Talk to the Dead
(Japan) Horror/suspense.
86mins. Eleven Arts. Dir:
Norio Tsuruta. Key cast:
Ayaka Komatsu, Kazuki
Kato, Yuki Sakurai.
One day, Yuri’s brother
(Israel/Germany) Drama.
Dir: Tom Shoval. Key
cast: David Cunio, Eitan
Cunio, Moshe Ivgy, Shirili
Deshe, Gita Amely.
Yaki and Shaul are two
teenage brothers who share
a strong, almost telepathic
connection. The brother’s
family is suffering from an
overgrowing debt which
led to their father’s deep
depression. The brothers
feel they cannot just stand
on the sidelines while
their family falls apart.
Up until now they were
helpless but now with
Yaki’s enlistment to the
army, like every other
18-year-old Israeli boy,
he is given a rifle. This
rifle gives the brothers the
power they need to act,
14:45
The Legend Of Sarila
(Canada) Animation.
86mins. Cinema
Management Group. Dir:
Namcy Florence Savard.
Key cast: Christopher
Plummer, Dustin Milligan,
Genevieve Bujold.
A voyage of initiation in
which three young lnuits
go in search of a promised
land, hoping to save their
clan from famine.
HKCEC
15:00
Be a Mother
(China) 90mins.
International. Dir: Yu
Zhongi. Key cast: Alex
Fong, Lan Qin, Pei Wang.
HKCEC
(Hong Kong, China)
Action/adventure,
horror/suspense.
104mins. Universe
Films Distribution Co.
Dir: Oxide Pang. Key
cast: Aaron Kwok, Nick
Cheung, Jiang Yi Yan,
Chan Koon Tai.
Private detective Tam
follows the hints to restart
the investigation of drug
trafficking in Malaysia
with the help of an
undercover agent, hoping
to find out the truth
behind the murder of his
parents 30 years ago.
Theatre 1, HKCEC
Discovery At Dawn
(Italy) Drama, scifi, fantasy. 92mins.
European Film
Promotion (representing
Fandango). Dir: Susanna
Nicchiarelli.
Barbara’s father
disappeared in 1981 when
she was 12, shortly after his
colleague was murdered.
His disappearance
remained a mystery for
years until one day, while
visiting the family’s holiday
home, Barbara lifts the
receiver of a disconnected
telephone which is
connected to the past, ready
to reveal its secrets.
HKCEC
I AM ICHIHASHI —
Journal of A Murderer
(Japan) Drama, horror/
suspense. 83mins. Sedic
International. Dir: Dean
Fujioka. Key cast: Dean
Fujioka, Takashi Nishina,
Shinichi Tsuha, Cozy
Sueyoshi.
Tatsuya Ichihashi ran and
hid all across Japan. A
fugitive who moved from
parks to construction sites
and even to an uninhibited
island. He changed his
name and even his face.
For two years and seven
months he avoided the
SCREENINGS
police, the murder he’d
committed and himself.
This is based on a true
account of a murderer,
chronicled by himself.
JO’S NEIGHBORHOOD
(France) Drama.
92mins. WIDE. Dir:
Alain Minier. Key cast:
Olivier Marchal-Smain,
Catherine Marchal,
Nassim Boutelis.
After 15 years in prison,
Jo returns to his former
neighbourhood —
Menilmontant, a collection
of high-rise estates on the
gritty outskirts of Paris.
What used to be his patch,
has changed completely;
new gangs and new codes
now rule this place. Jo
finds it difficult to settle
back into life on the
outside, especially when
he discovers the woman
he used to love is the
mother of a 14-year-old
boy. Ultimately Jo must
come to terms with his
shady past and the endless
settling of scores.
HKCEC
LIBRARY WARS
(Japan) 128mins. Tokyo
Broadcasting System
Television (TBS).
In 2019, public anger at
media excess has led to
censorship of television,
newspapers, the internet,
books, movies and
music under the Media
Betterment Act. To fight
the armed Betterment
Squads that destroy
objectionable materials,
the nation’s libraries
have formed their own
para-military ‘Library
Corps’. Iku Kasahara is a
new recruit to the corps,
where her instructor and
squad leader is Atsushi
Dojo. At first repelled by
his by-the-book approach
to leadership, she is
gradually won over by his
commitment to their battle
for books and the freedom
of knowledge.
Pluto
(South Korea)
Drama. 114mins. CJ
Entertainment. Dir: Shin
Su-won. Key cast: David
Lee, Sung June, Kim
Kkob-bi, Cho Sung-ha.
Story about June, a high
school senior, who takes
hostage his classmates,
members of a study group
called Rabbit Hunting,
and finally blows himself
up with them. What
caused this innocent
boy’s corruption? What
happened between the
students?
HKCEC
Wedding Scandal
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16:15
AVD Video Engagement
Optimization (VEO)
Products
(China) Documentary.
4mins. Shanghai AVD
Digital Media.
Introduction of
AVD Digital Media.
Illustration of AVD
Touch — interactive video
technology, and AVD
TV — interactive TV
technology.
HKCEC
TIED
(France) 80mins. Wild
Bunch. Dir: Helene
Fillieres. Key Cast:
Benoit Poelvoorde,
Laetitia Casta, Richard
Bohringer, Reda Kateb.
A powerful banker and his
mistress enter a world of
insatiable — and deadly —
erotic desire that gradually
consumes them.
HKCEC
16:30
TWO MOTHERS
(Australia, France)
Romance. 111mins.
Gaumont. Dir: Anne
Fontaine. Key cast:
Naomi Watts, Robin
Wright, Xavier Samuel,
James Frecheville.
A gripping tale of love,
lust and the power of
friendship, charting
the unconventional
and passionate affairs
embarked on by two
lifelong friends, Lil and
Roz, who fall in love with
each other’s son. Afraid
of facing the ire and
judgment of their insular
seaside community, the
two affairs continue in
secret over the years, until
their discovery threatens
to tear apart the lives
and families of the young
men, who must eventually
choose between a wellworn path, or follow their
true desires.
Theatre 2, HKCEC
YELLOW ELEPHANT
(Japan) Romance.
131mins. Showgate. Dir:
Ryuichi Hiroki. Key cast:
Aoi Miyazaki, Osamu
Mukai.
Tsuma and Muko were
married shortly after they
met. Without knowing
each other’s secrets, they
began living together.
home town breaks the lovers
apart. But will love survive?
HKCEC
My Wife’s A Cat
17:00
18th ifva Awards
Highlights (Open
Category)
HKCEC
HKCEC
(China) 94mins.
International. Dir:
Huang Jun.
HKCEC
18:00
Fig
Lost for Words
(Hong Kong ) Drama,
Romance. 107mins.
HKIFF Industry
Dir: Stanley J Orzel. Key
cast: Sean Faris, Grace
Huang, Terence Yin,
Joman Chiang, Will Yun
Lee.
Amid the sweeping cityscape
of cosmopolitan Hong
Kong, Chinese dancer
Anna Zhou meets Michael
Vance, an ex-Marine who
is new in town. Anna is
dedicated and determined
to become a world-class
dancer. Unlike her best
friend Meimei, Anna is
cautious in matters of love.
As a devout Catholic, she
has taken a vow of chastity.
During their discovery of
Hong Kong, ostensibly for
language lessons, Anna
and Michael find love. A
fateful journey to Anna’s
(Macau, Hong Kong,
China) 97mins. HKIFF
Industry Screenings @
Filmart. Dir: Vincent
Chui. Key cast: Jenny
Li, Eliz Lau, Siuyea
Lo, Stiffany Lo, Carson
Chung.
Long Weekend
(Thongsook 13)
(Thailand) Horror/
suspense. 95mins.
Five Star Production
Co. Dir: Taweewat
Wantha. Key cast:
Chinawut Indracusin,
Sheranut Yusananda,
Sean Jindachot, Akanat
Ariyaritvikul, Natpassara
Adulyamethasiri, Kitlapat
Korasudraiwon.
A group of teenagers go on
trip to an isolated island,
where there was an old
ceremony on Friday the
13th called The Night of
Devouring Ghosts, when
all the ghosts come out for
offerings. They use this
chance to play a prank
on Thongsook, a nerdy,
strange guy. The teenagers
lock him inside a cabinet
in the old shrine on the
island. But the joke isn’t
funny when they come
back to find Thongsook
has disappeared from the
locked cabinet and all hell
starts to break loose.
HKCEC
18:30
Emperor Visits the Hell
market
16:00
Wedding Scandal
(South Korea) Comedy, romance.
90mins. 9ers Entertainment.
Dir: Shin Dong-Yeob. Key cast: Kwak
Ji-min, Kim Min-jun.
Good-looking slacker Ki-suk finds
himself chained to his long-forgotten
fake wife when his sister-in-law,
Jeong-eun, visits unexpectedly. The
two struggle to make matrimonial
evidence to save his wife from being
deported.
Meeting Room N109-110, HKCEC
(China/Canada) Drama.
Dir: Luo Li. Key cast: Li
Wen, Wu Wei, Li Juchuan,
Yang Xiao, Li Hao.
A modern retelling of
the classic Chinese story
of Emperor Li Shimin’s
journey to the underworld
and his return to life.
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March 18, 2013 Screen International at Filmart 21 n
Events
Seminars
and events
Monday 18
10:00
The Selling and
Branding of Chineselanguage Films
Internationally
Venue Stage, Hall 1, Hong
Kong Convention and
Exhibition Centre
Moderator Patrick Frater,
CEO, Film Business Asia
Panel speakers Jeffrey
Chan, founder and CEO,
Distribution Workshop;
Doris Pfardrescher,
president, Well Go USA
Inc; Lim Teck, managing
director, Clover Films
Asian films are on
the rise with Chineselanguage films taking
centre stage. The
mainland Chinese film
industry has grown
exponentially over the
past decade in terms of
production, budgets and
box office. Meanwhile,
an increasing number
of Chinese-language
films are being made in
Singapore and Malaysia.
How are Chineselanguage films finding
opportunities in a
challenging international
marketplace? What is
the role of Hong Kong
in branding and selling
Chinese-language films
overseas?
11:00
GO LOCAL!
Venue Event Room, Hall 1,
Hong Kong Convention
and Exhibition Centre
11:30
Japan — HK Seminar
Venue Studio, Hall 1,
12:00
Press and Filmart hosted
buyers only
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