The Asian Film Awards, an annual prestigious event celebrating Asian cinema, brings film talents from all over the world together, promoting Asian film culture to the world, while also facilitating exchanges between cinephiles and filmmakers. As the kick-off event for the 17th Asian Film Awards season, Asian Cinerama – 17th Asian Film Awards Selection, presented by the Asian Film Awards Academy in collaboration with Broadway Cinematheque, will be the first of a series of exciting programmes. Seven outstanding nominated films of the 17th Asian Film Awards will be screened in Hong Kong alongside two special screenings.
World-class directors KUROSAWA Kiyoshi, KORE-EDA Hirokazu, GU Xiaogang, Prasanna VITHANAGE and MATSUNAGA Daishi will greet the Hong Kong audience at screenings. In addition, screenwriter SAKAMOTO Yuji (Monster), composer ISHIBASHI Eiko (Evil Does Not Exist), actors and actresses JIANG Qinqin, CHEN Jianbin (Dwelling by the West Lake), Audrey LIN, Terrance LAU Chun Him (Trouble Girl), Tergel BOLD-ERDENE (City of Wind), SUZUKI Ryohei and MIYAZAWA Hio (Egoist) will also attend these sharing sessions. This is the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that should not be missed!
The Asian Cinerama – 17th Asian Film Awards Selection is presented by the Asian Film Awards Academy, in collaboration with Broadway Cinematheque and financially supported by Create Hong Kong and the Film Development Fund. Screenings will be held from 7 March (Thu) to 11 March (Mon) at Broadway Cinematheque, PREMIERE ELEMENTS and MOViE MOViE Cityplaza. Tickets will be available starting from 24 February. Please visit the Asian Film Awards Academy website (
www.afa-academy.com) or Broadway Circuit website (
www.cinema.com.hk) for more ticketing information.