Japanese filmmaker Nakashima Tetsuya’s The Brightest Solar and Malaysia-Hong Kong co-production Pavane For An Toddler, directed by Chong Keat-Aun, will open this 12 months’s Hong Kong Worldwide Movie Pageant (April 10-21).
Berlin Golden Bear winner Goals (Intercourse Love), directed by Norway’s Dag Johan Haugerud, has been set because the closing movie of the competition.
Two Hong Kong productions will obtain Gala Screenings – Valley Of The Shadow Of Dying, starring Anthony Wong, and Oliver Chan Siu-kuen’s Montages Of A Trendy Motherhood, which performed in Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant’s New Currents part and Tokyo Worldwide Movie Pageant’s Girls’s Empowerment strand final 12 months.
HKIFF’s Cinephile Paradise part will display movies corresponding to Geng Jun’s Bel Ami, Vivian Qu’s Ladies On Wire, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, Luis Ortega’s Kill The Jockey and Yeo Siew Hua’s Stranger Eyes.
As beforehand introduced, Hong Kong actor and producer Louis Koo has been chosen because the Filmmaker In Focus at this 12 months’s HKIFF, which can showcase ten of his influential works, publish a commemorative e-book and host a Face-to-Face session wherein Koo will share his profession journey with a public viewers.
French director Leos Carax and Japanese actress Ando Sakura are additionally among the many worldwide filmmakers attending the competition in particular person to fulfill with native audiences. Carax will current his most up-to-date movie, Annette, starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, together with Dangerous Blood (1986), The Lovers On The Bridge (1991) and 2024 brief movie It’s Not Me.
Ando Sakura will current 4 movies, together with Harada Masato’s Dangerous Lands (2023), Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Shoplifters (2018), Take Masaharu’s 100 Yen Love (2014) and Ando Momoko’s 0.5mm (2014).
Following Spanish director Víctor Erice’s attendance at HKIFF final 12 months, this 12 months the competition will host Catalonian filmmaker Albert Serra, who will current his newest documentary, Afternoons Of Solitude, and host a masterclass. The competition may even display a retrospective of Serra’s movies.
The competition’s ‘Meet the Filmmaker’ collection additionally consists of Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen presenting his newest movie, Silent Trilogy. Different filmmakers attending the competition to current their works and meet audiences embrace China’s Wang Bing and Vivian Qu, Japan’s Yaguchi Shinobu and Taiwan’s Lee Kang-Sheng.