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Documentary, 96mins. Double Edge Entertainment. Dir: Kung Wen-Yen. Key cast: Mayday, Richie Ren, Rene Liu Combines live performances from the group’s DNA concert tour in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and China 2010, integrating three fictional stories. Meeting Room N206-N207, HKCEC
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VIOLETAND DAISY (US) Organised Crime, 88mins. Wild Bunch. Dir: Geoffrey Fletcher. Key cast: Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel, James Gandolfini Screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher’s visually adventurous directorial debut is a brutal fable about a pair of teenage assassins who believe they have landed a straightforward assignment but find themselves thrown off their game when their latest target is not who they expected. Meeting Room N111-N112, HKCEC
WHAT THE…? (Korea) Drama, 120mins. Film Factory Nu:n. Dir: Kim Eu-Jin, Shim Sung- Bo. Key cast: Jung Yeon- Ju, Lee Yun-Soo Meeting Room N209-N210, HKCEC
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THE FOURTH STATE (Germany) Action/ Adventure, Drama, 110mins. Celluloid Dreams. Dir: Dennis Gansel Action thriller set in Moscow. A reporter falls in love with an activist. A chain of events will tear his life apart, confronting him to secrets of his past. Meeting Room N201B, HKCEC
GABI (Korea) Action/ Adventure 115mins. M-Line Distribution. Dir: Chang Youn-hyun. Key cast: Joo Jin-mo, Kim So-yeun, Park Hee-soon In 1896, when coffee was
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DANCING QUEEN (Korea) Comedy, Drama, 124mins. CJ Entertainment. Dir: Lee Seok-hoon. Key cast: Hwang Jung- min, Uhm Jung-hwa Jung-hwa is offered the
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SNOWFLAKE (Japan) Drama, Romance, 74mins. Mode Films. Dir: Masaaki Taniguchi. Key cast: Mirei Kiritani A college girl, Mano, carries with her the memory and emotionally unresolved tragedy of losing her childhood friend, with whom she had made an unfulfilled promise. Meeting Room N109-N110, HKCEC
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BLOOD LETTER (Vietnam) Action/ Adventure, 100mins.
opportunity of becoming a singer-dancer. But chasing her dream comes to a halt by her husband’s declaration: He’s running for mayor of Seoul. Theatre 1, HKCEC
Vietnam Media Corporation. Dir: Victor Vu. Key cast: Huynh Dong, Van Trang, Midu, Khuong Ngoc, Minh Thuan Meeting Room N206-207, HKCEC
FROM SEOUL TO VARANASI (Korea) Drama, 98mins. HKIFF Industry Screenings @ Filmart. Dir: Jeon Kyu-hwan. Key cast: Yoon Dong-hwan Meeting Room N104-N105, HKCEC
UNIJAPAN SHORT FILMS BYYOUNG CREATORS (Japan) Drama, 60mins. UNIJAPAN. Dir: Katsumata Yu, Morioka Ryu, Tazaki Megumi, Yoshino Kohei, Izuki Hajime. Key cast: Nitta Eri, Katsuo Mayuna, Iida Kaoru Meeting Room N102-N103, HKCEC
YOUNG DUDES (Taiwan) Comedy, Sci-fi,
Fantasy, 80mins. HKIFF Industry Screenings @ Filmart. Dir: DJ Chen Yin-jung. Key cast: Edison Wang Po-chieh, Abe Tsuyoshi, Larisa Angela Burokova As the prophecy of the 2012 Apocalyse approaches, 30-year- old loser Adam Wu accidentally starts a revolution on Facebook, calling for people to join the world as one. Soon, his mission spreads like wildfire, and becomes a global phenomenon as reported by the media. Meeting Room N111-N112, HKCEC
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ROBO-G (Japan) Comedy, 111mins. Pony Canyon. Dir: Shinobu Yaguchi. Key cast: Shinjiro Igarashi, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Gaku Hamada Three flunky employees of Kimura Electric — Kobayashi, Ota and Nagai — are ordered by the company president to develop a bipedal robot to promote the company in an upcoming Robot Expo. But just one week before the big event, the robot-in- production is smashed to smithereens. Meeting Room N101A, HKCEC
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NEVER ENDING STORY (Korea) Romance 114mins. 9Ers Entertainment. Dir: Joung Yong-Ju. Key cast: Uhm Tae-Woong, Jung Ryeo-Won A man and a woman are diagnosed with a terminal illness and they begin to plan the last ceremony of their life. Theatre 1, HKCEC
WALK AWAY RENEE (France) Documentary 90mins. Wild Bunch. Dir: Jonathan Caouette. Film-maker Jonathan Caouette embarks on a road trip to move his mentally-ill mother across the country. Theatre 2, HKCEC
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BEAUTIFUL 2012 (Hong Kong, China) Drama, 84mins. HKIFF Industry Screenings @ Filmart. Dir: Gu Changwei, Tsai Ming Liang, Kim Tae yong What is beautiful? Three Chinese-speaking film- makers, plus South Korea’s Kim Tae-yong, give their singular visions to this eternal question. Meeting Room N101B, HKCEC
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