SCREENINGS 10:00AM
THE LEGEND OF SILK BOY (China) 90mins. Meeting room N211-N212, HKCEC
A FRIEND IN NEED (Korea) Action/ adventure, 87mins. Amuse. Dir: Song Jung- woo. Key cast: Kim Tae-woo, Park Seong- woong. Meeting room N206-N207, HKCEC
BUCK (US) Documentary, 89mins. Sundance Selects/IFC. Dir: Cindy Meehl. Key cast: Buck Brannaman. Buck Brannaman is a no-excuses cowboy who travels the world sharing a hard-won wisdom. Meeting room N209-N210, HKCEC
THE CLINK OF ICE (France) Comedy, drama, 87mins. Wild Bunch. Dir: Bertrand Blier. Key cast: Jean Dujardin, Albert Dupontel, Anne Alvaro. Meeting room N111-N112, HKCEC
EVEN THE RAIN (Spain) Drama, 104mins. Wild Bunch. Dir: Iciar Bollain. Key cast: Luis Tosar, Gael Garcia Bernal, Juan Carlos Aduviri. Obsessive idealist Sebastian has sworn to direct a film about one of the world’s most iconic figures, Christopher Columbus. Theatre 2, HKCEC
FAIRYTALES (China) Drama, 100mins. Tianjin Film Studio. Dir: Liang Ming. Key cast: Zou Junbai, Li Qiang, Lu Yuan. Meeting room N204-N205, HKCEC
MADAME X (Indonesia) 102mins. Kalyana Shira Films. Dir: Lucky Kuswandi. Key cast: Amink, Marcell Siahaan, Joko Anwar. An exuberant transvestite superhero action comedy which delivers its message of tolerance without sacrificing the glam kitsch
and the lip gloss. Agnes b. CINEMA! Hong Kong Arts Centre
OLIVER SHERMAN (Canada) Drama, 82mins. Mongrel. Dir: Ryan Redford. Key cast: Garret Dillahunt, Donal Logue, Molly Parker. Veteran Sherman Oliver sets out to the countryside in search of the soldier who saved him during the war. Meeting room N109-N110, HKCEC
ROMANTIC HEAVEN (Korea) Drama, 118mins. M-Line Distribution. Dir: Jang Jin. Key cast: Kim Su-ro, Kim Dong- wook, Kim Ji-won. In heaven, there are still people who miss their beloved family and friends and keep their romantic memories even after death. Meeting room N104-N105, HKCEC
ROUTE IRISH (France) Drama, 106mins. Wild Bunch. Dir: Ken Loach. Key cast: Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe. In September 2004, Fergus persuaded Frankie to join his security team in Baghdad. Together they risked their lives in a city steeped in violence and awash with US dollars. In September 2007, Frankie died on Route Irish, the most dangerous road in the city. Fergus rejects the official explanation and begins his own investigation. Meeting room N101B, HKCEC
WHEN HAINAN MEETS TEOCHEW (Singapore) 82mins. 18g Pictures. Dir: Han Yew Kwang. Key cast: Lee Chau Min, Tan Hong Chye, Yeo Yann Yann. Meeting room N102-N103, HKCEC
YULU
(China) 90mins. United Star Corp. Dir: Jia Zhangke, Wei Tie, Chen Tao. Jia Zhangke gathered six young directors to make a
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dozen short films about 12 outstanding young people in present day China. Among them are artists, an investigative reporter, an environmentalist, even an entrepreneur, all under 40 and living a life they want. Meeting room N202-N203, HKCEC
11:30AM
SLAPSTICK BROTHERS (Japan) Action/ adventure, comedy, 137mins. Kadokawa Shoten Co. Dir: Hiroshi Shinagawa. Key cast: Ryuta Sato, Yusuke Kamiji, Satomi Ishihara. Meeting room N211-N212, HKCEC
11:45AM
LEGEND OF A RABBIT (China) Animation, 15mins. Tianjin North Film Group, Tianjin Film Studio, Dir: Sun Li Jun. To keep a promise to a dying Kung Fu master on the run, a humble farmhouse rabbit must step out of the kitchen, and take on ancient Beijing’s baddest panda. Meeting room N204-N205, HKCEC
NEW WORLD (Japan) 100mins. Dir: Lim Kah Wai. Shinsekai, in Osaka’s downtown core, is the one neighbourhood no-one wants to walk alone in at night. Nonetheless it’s where Beijing native Coco, looking for a swanky Christmas vacation, winds up. Things look up when she encounters a local with his own problems. Meeting room N111-N112, HKCEC
SENIOR YEAR (Philippines) 94mins. Digitank Studios. Dir: Jerrold Tarog. Key cast: Che Ramos, LJ Moreno, Ramon Bautista. Anyone who has attended their high-school reunion will relate to the feelings of trepidation and anxious anticipation beforehand. For class valedictorian Henry, his
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pre-event jitters trigger a flood of memories. Meeting room N102-N103, HKCEC
SUCKSEED (Thailand) Comedy, musical, 130mins. GMM Tai Hub Co. Dir: Chayanop Boonprakob. Key cast: Jirayu Laongmanee, Pachara Jirathiwat, Natacha Nualjam. Meeting room N206-N207, HKCEC
12:00PM
FAIRYTALES (China) Drama, 100mins. Tianjin Film Studio. Dir: Liang Ming. Key cast: Zou Junbai, Li Qiang, Lu Yuan. Meeting room N204-N205, HKCEC
THE FUTURE (Germany) 91mins. Meeting room N109-N110, HKCEC
MY GIRLHOOD (China) Drama, 105mins. Dir: Feng Zhenzhi. Key cast: Li Yixiao. Meeting room N202-N203, HKCEC
REVENGE A LOVE STORY (Hong Kong) Action/ adventure, drama, 91mins. All Rights Entertainment. Dir: Wong Ching Po. Key cast: Juno Mak Chun-Lung, Sora Aoi, Lau Wing. Meeting room N209-N210, HKCEC
12:15PM
THE DRUNKARD (Hong Kong) 106mins. Golden Scene Company. Dir: Freddie Wong. Key cast: Irene Wan, John Chang, Joman Chiang. Lau is an intellectual forced to make ends meet — and support his drinking habit — by authoring pulpy porn in 1960s Hong Kong. Theatre 1, HKCEC
HAPPY FEW (France) Drama, 103mins. Wild Bunch. Dir: Antony Cordier. Key cast: Marina Foïs, Roschdy Zem, Elodie Bouchez.
Meeting room N101B, HKCEC
RETURN TICKET (Taiwan) 85mins. Atom Cinema. Dir: Teng Yung- Shing. Theatre 2, HKCEC
12:30PM
BUDDHA MOUNTAIN (China) 105mins. Laurel Films. Dir: Li Yu. Key cast: Sylvia Chang, Fan Bing Bing, Chen Po Lin. Three aimless friends buck parental and societal expectation by skipping university and striking out on their own. They rent rooms from retired Peking Opera singer Yue Qin, who has shut herself off from the world. Agnes b. CINEMA! Hong Kong Arts Centre
MALU ON A BICYCLE (Brazil) 90mins. Meeting room N104-N105, HKCEC
1:30PM
HOTEL BLACKCAT (Taiwan) 100mins. 3 Dots Entertainment. Dir: Herb Hsu. Key cast: Lu Yi-Jing, Li Kang-Yi, Huang Cai-Yi. The ghosts of past traumas haunt the halls and denizens of the Blackcat Hotel. The vivid candy-coloured haven belies the darkness of the lives of the characters in former beauty queen Mang’s crumbling boarding house. Meeting room N102-N103, HKCEC
1:45PM
MILOCRORZE — A LOVE STORY (Japan) 90mins. Shochiku Co. Dir: Ishibashi Yoshimasa. Key cast: Yamada Takayuki, Maiko. Meeting room N111-N112, HKCEC
2:00PM
ALL THAT I LOVE (Poland) Musical, romance, 95mins. ITI Cinema. Dir: Jacek Borcuch. Key cast: Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Olga Frycz, Jakub Gierszal. In a seaside town, Janek
forms a punk-rock band to express the things that matter to him most. Meeting room N109-N110, HKCEC
BATTLEFIELD HEROS (Korea) Action/ adventure, 117mins. M-Line Distribution. Dir: Lee Joon-ik. Key cast: Cho Chul-hyun, Oh Sung-hyeon, Lee Jung-se. Meeting room N101A, HKCEC
BOY (Korea) Drama, 108mins. Indiestory Inc. Dir: Roh Hong-jin. Key cast: Yeoun Joon- seok, An Nae-sang, Kim So-hee. Meeting room N206-N207, HKCEC
KAASAN MOMS LIFE (Japan) Drama, 114mins. Asatsu-DK Inc. Dir: Syoutarou Kobayasi. Key cast: Kyoko Koizumi, Masatoshi Nagase. Meeting room N211-N212, HKCEC
THE LAW OF ATTRACTION (China) Comedy, horror, 90mins. Dadi Century Film Distribution (Beijing) Ltd. Dir: Tianyu Zhao. Key cast: Karen Mok, Zhang Jingchu, Guo Tao. Meeting room N202-N203, HKCEC
THE MOON CHILD (France) Drama, 110mins. Wild Bunch. Dir: Delphine Gleize. Key cast: Vincent Lindon, Emmanuelle Devos, Quentin Challal. Romain is a ‘moon child’, afflicted since birth by a rare genetic deficiency that makes him unable to stand exposure to daylight. Theatre 2, HKCEC
SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL SERVICE & TRADE PLATFORM Love Of Swordsmen (20mins); Mystery In The World Of Vagabond (20mins); Tears Of A Bride (20mins); Imperial Physician (15mins); When The Louvre Meets The Forbidden
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