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SCREENINGS


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ON THE EDGE OFA FLOATING CITY, WE SING (Hong Kong) Documentary, Musical, 120mins. HKIFF Industry Screenings @ Filmart. Dir: Anson Hoi Shan Mak. Key cast: Dejay of The Pancakes, Ah P of My Little Airport, Billy of Mini-Noise An essay film, a reflective documentary about the notion of freedom via spatial stories and local indie music. Meeting Room N101A, HKCEC


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MARKET 14:00


RENT-A-CAT (Japan) Drama, 110mins. HKIFF Industry Screenings @ Filmart. Dir: Naoko Ogigami. Key cast: Mikako Ichikawa, Reiko Kusamura, Ken Mitsuishi Sayoko lives alone, but she’s not really alone. For some reason cats find her irresistible, so she decides to share her house with them. She


Cheng, Dada Chan The bitterness and the joy of the Hong Kong film industry are captured in the story of To Wai- cheung’s outrageous experiences in making his new film. Theatre 1, HKCEC


11:45


A LETTER TO MOMO (Japan) Animation, Children; Drama, 120mins. HKIFF Industry Screenings @ Filmart. Dir: Hiroyuki Okiura. Key cast: Momo Miyaura: Karen Miyama, Ikuko Miyaura Clinging to an unfinished letter written by her recently deceased father, young Momo moves with her mother from bustling Tokyo to the remote Japanese island of Shio. Meeting Room N101B, HKCEC


TOKYO NEWCOMER (China/Japan) Drama, 102mins. HKIFF Industry Screenings @ Filmart Theatre 1, HKCEC


operates a rent-a-cat business through which she lends her cats to lonely people. “Rent-a- Cat. Rent-a-Cat, cat, cat. Feeling lonely? I’ll lend you a cat.” Every day, Sayoko walks along the riverside pulling a two- wheeled cart full of cats, repeating these words through her megaphone, hoping to rescue some lonely hearts. Meeting Room N101B, HKCEC


HERE, THERE (China) Drama 94mins. HKIFF Industry Screenings @ Filmart. Dir: Lu Sheng. Key cast: Lv Yulai, Huang Lu, Yao Anlian “Here”, “there” are two nouns often appearing in our lives, usually to indicate the distance between people. Shanghai, Paris, the primeval forest — different locations, different stories, but they are all connected in a certain way. Meeting Room N101A, HKCEC


12:00


FIRE IN HELL (Korea) Drama, 104mins. HKIFF Industry Screenings @ Filmart. Dir: Lee SangWoo. Key cast: Won TaeHee, Cha Seoung Min, Kim Hun Meeting Room N109-N110, HKCEC


N+N (Hong Kong) Drama, 109mins. HKIFF Industry Screenings @ Filmart. Dir: Mo Lai Yan Chi. Key cast: Ricky Yeung, Mok Chiu Yu, Joyceln Kan Meeting Room N102-N103, HKCEC


UFO IN HER EYES (China) Drama, 110mins. HKIFF Industry Screenings @ Filmart. Dir: Xiaolu Guo. Key cast: Shi Ke, Udo Kier One very hot afternoon, the life of an anonymous Chinese village woman changes abruptly when she believes she has just witnessed a UFO flying through the sky. The village chief takes advantage of this unexpected event to boost the poverty-stricken local economy. Meeting Room N104-N105, HKCEC


13:30


THE SECOND WOMAN (Hong Kong, China) Drama, Romance, 105mins. HKIFF Industry Screenings @ Filmart Theatre 1, HKCEC


14:00


LOVE (Taiwan) Comedy, Romance, 127mins. HKIFF Industry Screenings @ Filmart. Dir: Dize Niu Chen-Zer. What is love? Theatre 2, HKCEC


POSTCARDS FROMTHE ZOO (Indonesia) Drama 96mins. HKIFF Industry Screenings @ Filmart. Dir: Edwin. Key cast: Ladya Cheryl, Nicholas Saputra, Adjie Nur Ahman Little Lana was three years old when she was abandoned in the zoo. Raised by a giraffe trainer, the zoo is the only world she knows. When a charming magician arrives at the zoo, Lana falls in love and embarks on a journey until the day she decides she must go back to the place where she was abandoned. Meeting Room N104-N105, HKCEC


RENT-A-CAT See box, above


SHE IS NOT CRYING, SHE IS SINGING (Belgium, France, Luxembourg) Drama 78mins. Insomnia World Sales. Dir: Philippe De Pierpont. Key cast: Erika Sainte, Marijka Pinoy, Jean-Francois Wolff Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the suburbs of a big city. She learns that her father is in a coma after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him regularly at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores and perhaps to get revenge Meeting Room N102-N103, HKCEC


16:15


NUCLEAR NATION (Japan) Documentary 145mins. HKIFF Industry Screenings @ Filmart. Dir: Atsushi Funahashi A documentary about the exile of Futaba’s residents, the region of housing around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Meeting Room N101B, HKCEC


16:30


MODEST RECEPTION (Hong Kong, China) Drama, 100mins. HKIFF Industry Screenings @ Filmart. Dir: Mani Haghighi. Key cast: Taraneh Alidousti, Mani Haghighi, Esmail Khalaj A man and a woman drive through a war-torn mountain road in their SUV. The vehicle is filled with plastic bags full of cash. The man and the woman are giving the money away to the poor souls they encounter on the road. Is this a goodwill mission? A game of honour and temptation? A psychotic gamble? As the car ploughs through the icy terrain, answers become increasingly elusive and tension is built up to an unbearable pitch. Theatre 2, HKCEC


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