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SCREENINGS WEDNESDAY 21


09:30


DETACHMENT (US) Drama, Organised Crime, 100mins. Celluloid Dreams. Dir: Tony Kaye. Key cast: Adrien Brody, Christina Hendricks, Marcia Gay Harden A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students as seen through the eyes of a substitute teacher. Meeting RoomN101B, HKCEC


DIAZ — DON’T CLEAN UP THIS BLOOD (Italy, France, Romania) Drama, 119mins. Fandango Portobello. Dir: Daniele Vicari. Key cast: Claudio Santamaria, Elio Germano, Jennifer Ulrich A harrowing account of the brutal attack by 300 police on 90 activists spending the night in a school during the G8 Summit in Genoa 2001. Meeting RoomN104-N105, HKCEC


LOAN SHARK (Malaysia) Action/ Adventure, Drama 95mins. Technicolor (Thailand). Dir: CL Ho. Key cast: Sam Lee, Jojo Goh, Eddie Cheong A pair of siblings have to choose between justice and love. Theatre 2, HKCEC


SUPERCAPITALIST (Hong Kong) Action/ Adventure, Drama, Romance, 96mins. All Rights Entertainment. Dir: Simon Yin. Key cast: Linus Roache, Kenneth Tsang, Richard Ng A maverick New York hedge-fund trader called Connor with uncanny analytic abilities moves to Hong Kong and orchestrates a mega-deal that swiftly escalates beyond his control. Meeting RoomN111-N112, HKCEC


11:15


4:44 LAST DAY ON EARTH (US) Drama 85mins. Wild Bunch. Dir: Abel Ferrara. Key cast: Willem Dafoe, Shanyn Leigh, Natasha Lyonne A couple live in a large apartment high above the city. They are in love. She is a painter, he is a successful actor. Just a normal afternoon except that this is not a normal afternoon, for them or anyone else. Tomorrow, at 4:44am, give or take a few seconds, the world will come to an end. Meeting RoomN111-N112, HKCEC


11:30


MARKET 10:00


CAESAR MUST DIE (Italy) Drama, Documentary, 76mins. Rai Trade. Dir: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviana. Key cast: Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri


V/H/S (US) Horror/Suspense, 116mins. Epic Pictures Group. Dir: Adam Wingard, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, David Bruckner, Radio Silence, Joe Swanberg. Key cast: Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to rob a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for. Meeting RoomN101A, HKCEC


10:00


CAESAR MUST DIE See box, above


HIMIZU (Japan) Drama, 129mins. Gaga Corporation. Dir: Sion Sono. Key cast: Shota Sometani, Fumi Nikaidou Two teenagers living a dystopian existence in post-tsunami Japan


n 18 Screen International at Filmart March 21, 2012


Inmates at a high- security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’. Meeting RoomN206-N207, HKCEC


shouldering an unexpected responsibility when Alzheimer’s disease strikes their grandmother. Meeting RoomN209-N210, HKCEC


embark on a campaign of violence against evil wrongdoers. Meeting RoomN102-N103, HKCEC


LEGEND OF A RABBIT (China) Animation, 85mins. HKIFF Industry Screenings @ Filmart. Dir: Sun Li Jun. Key cast: Michael Clarke Duncan, Rebecca Black, Claire Geare 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 bear to save the fate of China’s Kung Fu Academy. Meeting RoomN201B, HKCEC


ORIUME (Japan) Drama, 111mins. Prism Co. Dir: Hisako Matsui. Key cast: Mieko Harada, Kazuko Yoshiyuki About a family


PARIS UNDER WATCH (France) Horror/ Suspense, 85mins. Films Distribution. Dir: Cedric Jimenez. Key cast: Melanie Doutey, Olivier Barthelemy, Francis Renaud A bomb attack in Gare d’Austerlitz: the government accuses Islamic groups, but a computer hacker, an anonymous upholder of the law, finds images of the bombing and tracks down the young couple responsible for it. With the help of the video- surveillance cameras in the city, he starts spying on them and manipulating them, meanwhile realising that truth can have many faces. Meeting RoomN109-N110, HKCEC


PRIVATE SCREENING Meeting RoomN204-205, HKCEC


WU YI: THE SMALLEST BABY PANDA IN THE WORLD (Japan) Documentary, 80mins. Asmik Ace Entertainment. Dir:


Masayuki Shiohama In Chengu, China, there is a huge research base for giant panda breeding, and many panda babies are born and raised there every year. But it was a little different in 2006. One of the baby pandas born that season weighed only 51 grams, about a third of the average panda baby weight. He was named Wu Yi (51 in Chinese). Can he survive like other panda babies? Can his mother take care of him properly? This documentary chronicles the first six years of Wu Yi’s life with his family and friends. Meeting RoomN211-N212, HKCEC


11:00


WAR OF THE WORLDS: GOLIATH (US/Malaysia) Action/ Adventure, Animation, Sci-fi, Fantasy, 82mins. Epic Pictures Group. Dir: Joe Pearson. Key cast: Peter Wingfield, Elizabeth Gracen, Jim Byrnes Set in an alternative 1914, Martian invaders wage total war against the human race. Earth’s hope rests with ARES, a ragtag human army of steam- powered battle walkers and heat-ray biplane squadrons. Meeting RoomN101A, HKCEC


BREAD OF HAPPINESS (Japan) Drama, Romance, 114mins. Asmik Ace Entertainment. Dir: Yukiko Mishima. Key cast: Tomoyo Harada, Yo Oizumi Story about the life and love of a married couple who run a small inn/cafe/ bakery in Hokkaido, and their breads that heal the wounded. Meeting RoomN211-N212, HKCEC


VENGEANCE (US) Action/Adventure, Organised Crime, 95mins. Fabrication Films. Dir: Alfonso Rodriguez. Key cast: Ving Rhames, Steven Bauer Daniel, a cop with the NYPD, is investigating a cold case involving the murder 15 years ago of a high-end prostitute called lsabel. While looking into her death he begins to identify five suspects who he believes are the key to unlocking the mystery of her murder. Meeting RoomN101B, HKCEC


12:00


ALMOST PERFECT (US) Comedy, Drama, Romance, 106mins. Eleven Arts, Dir: Bertha Bay-Sa Pan. Key cast: Kelly Hu, Ivan Shaw, Christina Chang Busy with a non- profit arts job and her dysfunctional family,


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