A medical knife salesman Geun-sung struggles to make a sale due to his poor customer skills. With no passion in his career, he desires to be a viral streamer for money. During a high school reunion, Geun-sung meets Jong-man, one of the top viral streamers. Geun-sung asks Jong-man to collaborate, but Jong-man only looks down on him.
Drunk and infuriated, Geun-sung does a livestream to expose Jong-man for being a bully in high school, which goes viral. With this chance, he starts a ruthless and dangerous journey towards more views and likes.
Forty-Seven Days with Jesus
11/3/2024
12:20–14:00
Theatre 2, HKCEC
Drama, Family100 mins
Director David M. Gutel, Emilio Palame
Main Cast Yoshi Barrigas, Catherine Lidstone, Cameron Arnett
Asian Premiere
A disconnected family finds hope and unity through a cinematic retelling of Jesus’ final 47 days on Earth.
Remember Me
11/3/2024
14:00–15:56
Louis Koo Cinema, HK Arts Centre
Drama116 mins
Director Xu Wei
Main Cast Kara Wai Ying Hung, Liu Haocun
World Premiere and International Premiere
In 2010, in a small seaside town, little girl Jiayi (played by Haocun Liu) was dependent on her grandmother (played by Kara Wai). One day, Jiayi was lost in an accident when she was 5 years old. Twelve years later, they met again, and Jiayi has grown up to be an adult with a talent for painting but no hope for the future. As Jiayi and Grandma readjust to each other‘s lives, Grandma tries to help Jiayi get back on normal life. But when a gangster appeared,
the conflict between Jiayi and her grandmother grows worse. It turns out that Jiayi had another secret in her heart during the 12 years she disappeared. ……
One year passed, Jiayi realizes that her grandmother knew everything. They write a miracle of warmth over the cruelty of youth.
Neramitnung Film’s promo screening
11/3/2024
16:00–17:00
Theatre 2, HKCEC
Horror and Sci-fi Fantasy60 mins
Director The Cursed Land: Panu Aree Taklee Genesis: Chookiat Sakveerakul
Main Cast The Cursed Land: Ananda Everingham, Bront Palarae Taklee Genesis: Paula Taylor, Peter Corp Dyrendal
World Premiere
The promo screening of the two promising Thai films to be released in 2024 by Neramitnung Film, the leading studio in Thailand.
Mads
11/3/2024
16:30–17:56
Louis Koo Cinema, HK Arts Centre
Horror, Single Shot86 mins
Director David Moreau
Main Cast Milton Riche, Laurie Pavy, Lucille Guillaume
Asian Premiere
July 28th 2023. 9.12pm. Party night. One single shot.
Romain (18) makes a stop at his dealer’s place, tries a new pill and is ready to go party. He sees an injured woman on the side of the road. As she gets in his car, silent and looking odd, she starts to behave very scarily until smashing her own head against the dashboard, bleeding out until she dies.
Is it a bad trip ? Or is it something else ? One thing is for sure, it’s only the beginning of the night.
MOON’s WALKING
11/3/2024
18:00–19:30
Theatre 2, HKCEC
Drama, Family90 mins
Director SHIN Hyun-kyu
Main Cast YOO Seung-mok, HWANG Zia, KIM Min-kyung, KIM Guk-hee
World Premiere
The most difficult day of the year for Jung-hee, a 16-year-old girl, is her grandmother’s memorial day.
Jung-hee is usually having a hard time with her alcoholic mother, but on this day, she called her grandfather’s sister to come over.
Jung-hee scolds her mother and uncle every year, asking why they hold the memorial service for her grandmother who committed suicide without thinking about finding her runaway grandfather.
Since Jung-hee’s grandfather disappeared on the day of her birth, Jung-hee somehow feels like it’s her fault.
So Jung-hee decides to go on an adventure which she can find all the secrets and end her mother’s adolescence.
12/3/2024 (Tue)
Lies (4K Remastered)
12/3/2024
10:00–11:35
Theatre 1, HKCEC
Adult, Romance95 mins
Director JANG Sun-woo
Main Cast LEE Sang-hyeon, KIM Tae-yeon
World Premiere
Y, an 18-year-old senior high school virgin, begins a sado-masochistic affair with J, a 38-year-old sculptor. Y lies to her parents to meet J and lose her virginity to him. Soon, their sexual relationship intensifies with increasing sadistic acts. After a three-month trip to Paris, J reunites with Y, now an adult, and there is nothing to stop the two. They leave everything behind and become sexual vagrants in their own hedonistic world.
Adagio
12/3/2024
10:00–11:50
Theatre 2, HKCEC
Healing Drama, Romance110 mins
Director YOON Seok-Ho
Main Cast KIM Ji-Young, BAE Su-Bin
World Premiere
Based on a Japanese novel written by Yuki Ibuki.
A man and a woman going through a middle age crisis encounter each other in a peaceful seaside village. Despite the different background, classical music becomes an instrument to connect the hearts of these two lonely and hurt souls.
House of the Seasons
12/3/2024
10:20–12:21
Louis Koo Cinema, HK Arts Centre
Drama121 mins
Director OH Jung-min
Main Cast KANG Seung Ho, WOO Sangjeon, SON Sook
International Premiere
It’s summer, and the whole Kim family has gathered in Daegu for the ancestral rites. This includes Seong-jin, the eldest grandson of the family, whose father has taken on the family business: a tofu factory. After the rites, family tensions start to rise and Seong-jin drops the bombshell that he won’t be taking on the family business.
The Dead Don’t Hurt
12/3/2024
12:10–14:19
Theatre 1, HKCEC
Western, Romance, Drama129 mins
Director Viggo Mortensen
Main Cast Viggo Mortensen, Vicky Krieps, Solly McLeod, Garret Dillahunt, Danny Houston
Asian Premiere
The Dead Don’t Hurt is a story of star-crossed lovers set on the western U.S. frontier in the 1860s. Fiercely independent Vivienne Le Coudy and Danish immigrant Holger Olsen are tragically separated by war.
Love on the Rock
12/3/2024
12:20–13:59
Theatre 2, HKCEC
Action, Comedy, Romance99 mins
Director Matt Shapira
Main Cast David A.R. White, Steven Bauer, Jeff Fahey, Jon Lovitz
Colton Riggs, a burned-out former tough cop from the Midwest, has his boring new Maltese charter-boating lifestyle turned upside-down when he suddenly finds himself catapulted into a web of high-stakes international espionage.
Another End
12/3/2024
14:00–16:08
Louis Koo Cinema, HK Arts Centre
Drama128 mins
Director PIERO MESSINA
Main Cast Gael Garcia Bernal, Renate Reinsve, Bérénice Bejo
Asian Premiere
A tale of two people who have loved each other and continue to love each other, even after one of them dies.
High Expectations
12/3/2024
16:00–17:36
Theatre 1, HKCEC
Drama, Sports96 mins
Director Jonathan Southard, Christopher D. White
Main Cast Kelsey Grammer, Taylor Gray, Ally Brooke
A soccer player is cut from his legendary father’s club. Desperate and determined to fulfill his dreams of professional soccer glory, he joins his father’s rival team as a last resort. Can he achieve his dreams while pitted against his father’s dominant squad?
Skyrocket Junipers Under the Crescent
12/3/2024
16:00–17:18
Theatre 2, HKCEC
Drama78 mins
Director Yang Geun-yeong
Main Cast JUNG Ha-dam, KIM Dae-gun
International Premiere
Ki-eun/Gi-eon continues to fantasize as a side effect of painkillers.
The lively dreams are more fascinating and powerful than reality, so Gi-eun/Gi-eon constantly runs away from reality, ignoring the dose of medicine, but the fantasy is more easily out of his/her control. After waking up from a dream that they didn’t want to wake up forever, they face the reality I wanted to avoid.
Following the death of her mother, a Japanese-Cambodian manga artist decides to travel to Cambodia along with her boyfriend, in a quest to find out more about the country her mother fled. She reunites with lost family and moves into the apartment where her mother used to live. As she tries to find out more about her past, she’s confronted to strange events within the building that hint at something darker going on with the residents. What first appears as over-caring considerations from the community towards them soon turns out to be part of a ritual. The residents are preparing a new host for the building’s evil spirit, before it starts killing them once again.
POSSO ENTRARE? An ode to Naples
12/3/2024
18:15–20:02
Theatre 1, HKCEC
Documentary107 mins
Director Trudie Styler
Main Cast Don Antonio Loffredo, Francesco Di Leva, Roberto Saviano, Jorit
Asian Premiere
In almost two years as a foreigner, Trudie Styler narrates the contrasts of beauty and pain, light and darkness of a unique city: Naples. Letting the people who live there tell their own story.
13/3/2024 (Wed)
Story of Xi’an Wind and Percussion Ensemble
13/3/2024
10:00–11:34
Theatre 1, HKCEC
Documentary94 mins
Director Yikun Yang
Main Cast qiaoli TIAN, Zhongxin HE
World Premiere
The epitome of xi 'an drum music, a world intangible cultural heritage of 1400 years in today's China.
Use traditional Chinese music to show the extensive and profound Chinese culture, Chinese spirit, and Chinese adherence.
Struggle and Courage
13/3/2024
10:00–11:42
Theatre 2, HKCEC
Drama, Action102 mins
Director 翌翔, 趙寧宇
Main Cast 張桐, 蘇青, 楊軼
International Premiere
In the depths of the mountains, there is a small village called Xiazhuang.It is almost isolated from the world. In the harsh surrounding environment, every villager faces great survival challenges. In order to get out of the mountains, the villagers miraculously carved an 8-kilometer long "heavenly road" on the cliff with their own flesh and blood.
Giants of La Mancha
13/3/2024
10:20–11:45
Louis Koo Cinema, HK Arts Centre
Animation85 mins
Director Gonzalo Gutiérrez
Main Cast Cassie Glow
Asian Premiere
Alfonso Quixote is an 11-year-old boy with a huge imagination. As the rightful descendant and legitimate heir to Don Quixote and just like his great, great, great, great grandfather, he is constantly protecting his beloved town in La Mancha from monsters, which no one else can see.
Last Mile
13/3/2024
12:00–14:09
Theatre 1, HKCEC
Drama, Mystery129 mins
Director Ayuko Tsukahara
Main Cast Hikari Mitsushima, Masaki Okada
World Premiere
On the day before the Black Friday sale, a box delivered by a global e-commerce company, explodes.
The box was sent from one of the biggest warehouses, which has the three-quarter logistic shares around Tokyo.
It leads a series of mysterious bombings that terrorize whole of Japan. Elena Funato, who was just appointed as a new director of the warehouse, is forced to control this unprecedented situation with a line manager, Ko Nashimoto.
Who planted the bombs? For what purpose?
How many bombs are left? - And where are they now?
In this modern society, distribution service becomes critical need for our lives and that cannot be stopped.
Can Elena and Ko end the serial bombings without stopping blood flowed in “blood vessel”; the global logistics system like a web?
Deer Camp ’86
13/3/2024
12:12–13:37
Theatre 2, HKCEC
Horror, Thriller, Comedy85 mins
Director L. Van Dyke Siboutszen
Main Cast Noah LaLonde, Jay J. Bidwell, Arthur Cartwright
Asian Premiere
In the fall of 1986, six knuckleheads from Detroit travel north to partake in the annual tradition of deer hunting. But something horrific has been awakened and the hunters become the hunted.
My Freaky Family
13/3/2024
14:00–15:37
Louis Koo Cinema, HK Arts Centre
Animation87 mins
Director Mark Gravas
Main Cast Evanna Lynch, Richard Roxburgh, Miranda Otto, Rupert Degas, Ardal O’Hanlon
Asian Premiere
On the cusp of her 13th birthday, Betty Flood - budding musician and magical being - just wants to be like the rest of her fabulous, but very ‘different’ family…So why is her magical Mum so against it? As Betty wrestles with this, she also learns the amazing truth about her family and discovers that the not so normal, the magical and the musical are all a part of her fabulously freaky family.
90 Years Old- So What?
13/3/2024
14:40–16:19
Theatre 1, HKCEC
Family, Comedy, Drama99 mins
Director Tetsu Maeda
Main Cast Mitsuko Kusabue
World Premiere
Aiko Sato is a 90 year-old award-winning writer, who retired from her writing job.
Since her retirement, she lived her life listlessly with her daughter and granddaughter.
One day, a geeky mid-aged editor man comes to ask Aiko to write an essay again. Aiko refuses
his offer at the beginning, but he visits her every day with some treats...and finally, he has convinced her to agree to writing with his enthusiasm.
While the editor gets back his passion for his work again, he also faces a problem with his family. His wife wants to divorce since he works too much and keeps leaving his wife and daughter behind.
After a while, Aiko’s essay book is getting loved by many people and becomes a bestseller, although the book fills with her anger.
Aiko and the editor achieved success and became best buddies at work.
Yet, how would they cope with their own lives?
SANBOK ROAD
13/3/2024
16:00–17:50
Theatre 2, HKCEC
Action, Drama110 mins
Director Kim See-woo
Main Cast LEE Ho-won
World Premiere
<SANBOK ROAD> is a growth story of five friends in a poor village of Ami-dong in Busan using the true story of the boxing heroes who made every South Korean excited in the chaotic period in the 1980s as a motif.
The Net
13/3/2024
16:48–18:23
Theatre 1, HKCEC
Thriller95 mins
Director Domenico Emanuele de Feudis
Main Cast Luca Argentero, Cristiana Dell’Anna, Luca Pusceddu, Geno Diana
World Premiere
In a cold and dark Sardinia, the crime of a very young girl hides a shocking reality.
Sante Moras, a former policeman, now a prison guard, is accused of a murder that he did not commit: a man, guilty of having tortured and killed a girl, is found dead during his shift in custody.
Forced to flee, and chased by the determined commissioner Tommaso Lago, Sante decides that the only way to save himself is to go all the way and seek the truth.
HKAC x FILMART 2024: ifva Awards Short Film Highlights
13/3/2024
18:00–19:41
Theatre 2, HKCEC
Drama, Animation101 mins
Director ifva Awardees
FILMART 2024 will screen “ifva Awards Short Film Highlights”, presenting a wide variety of quality works, full of surprises, exuberance, fun and lots of touching moments.
This year’s selection includes the excellent works from open, youth and animation categories that show abundant imagination and ingenuity in both their subject matters and techniques. Excellent works include Rewind (Ho Wai-wa, Sung Ting-hin, Lo Ching-laam/ 8’11”), As I Imagine My Body Moving (Elysa Wendi/ 30’00”), Lucky Cat (Yeung Kwong-chung/ 25’00”), Trek of an Extinct Bird (Ho Lok-yee Gloria/ 28’21”) and My Dear Son (Lilian Fu / 8’52”).