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.
12.12: The Day(AC)
In 1979, after the assassination of President PARK, the fate of South Korea was in limbo. Less than two months later, the Commander of the Defense Security Command CHUN Doo-hwan initiated a coup…
Monster(AC)
When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what’s…
Tokyo Sonata(AC)
Ryuhei, the breadwinner of the family, loses his job and decides to conceal the bad news from the family. But he is the only troubled one in the house: his coming-of-age elder son is at a loss for the…
Egoist(AC)
SUZUKI Ryohei nearly sparkles with elegance, taste and personal charm as the protagonist, Kosuke. A wealthy magazine editor with a close circle of artistic, bon vivant friends, Kosuke is surprised…
Evil Does Not Exist(AC)
Director HAMAGUCHI Ryusuke’s highly-anticipated follow up to the Oscar-winning Drive My Car originally began as a video companion to composer ISHIBASHI Eiko’s live performance. The meditative…
Dwelling by the West Lake(AC)
The second volume of GU Xiaogang’s Shan Shui painting series is a modern revision of the legendary Buddist folklore of filial piety about a boy saving his mother from the inferno. Single mother…
Paradise(AC)
In celebration of their 5th anniversary, an Indian couple travels to the countryside of Sri Lanka on vacation tracing the epic of Ramayana. An unfortunate event causes both the relationship of the…
Trouble Girl(AC)
Xiao Xiao has troubles at school; her teachers do not know how to deal with her, and her classmates bully her all the time. On the day before a typhoon comes, Xiao Xiao finds out that her mother is…
City of Wind(AC)
17-year-old Ze is not only the top student at school but also a shaman, who helps his community members by communicating with ancestral spirits. Ze does a great job in maintaining his dual identities,…