This year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) opens with two local films: Soi Cheang’s noir thriller Crazy Destiny and the world premiere of Ann Huis elegiesa documentary about contemporary local poetry.
Crazy Destinywith Gordon Lam and Lokman Yeung, a member of the hot boy band Mirror, recently had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. Soi Cheang was also selected as Filmmaker In Focus at HKIFF this year.
World premiere of Cheuk Wan-chi sign of lifethe festival closes with Louis Koo, Yau Hawk-sau and Angela Yuen.
The HKIFF, which runs for 12 days from March 30 to April 10, returns to its usual spring dates after being postponed until August last year due to Hong Kong’s fifth and most severe Covid wave.
Foreign filmmakers, including Taiwanese Tsai Ming-Liang and Lee Kang-Sheng, will return to the festival to meet local audiences for the first time since 2019. , Hong Kong’s strict quarantine rules have mostly kept foreign visitors away.
In total, the festival program includes 320 theatrical and online screenings of 200 films, including nine world premieres, six international premieres and 67 Asian premieres. Special sections include a program of Scandinavian films and retrospectives of Jean-Luc Godard and Japanese filmmaker Itami Juzo.
Gala presentations include a restored version by Patrick Tams nomad (1982) and more recent festival hits, including those of Christian Petzold A fireCharlotte Wells’s After sunlaura poitras All the beauty and the bloodshed. nomad is shown as part of a sidebar of restored Chinese classics, including Hou Hsiao-Hsiens A city of sadness and that of Edward Yang A Confucian confusion.
Source: Deadline
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