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Market
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 Room n101B, 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 Room n104-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 Room n111-n112,
hKcec
Market
10:00
n 18 Screen International at Filmart March 21, 2012
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 Room n101a, 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
Inmates at a highsecurity
prison in
Rome prepare for a
public performance of
Shakespeare’s ‘Julius
Caesar’.
meeting Room n206-n207,
hKcec
embark on a campaign
of violence against evil
wrongdoers.
meeting Room n102-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 Room n201B, hKcec
oRiUme
(Japan) Drama, 111mins.
Prism Co. Dir: Hisako
Matsui. Key cast:
Mieko Harada, Kazuko
Yoshiyuki
About a family
shouldering an unexpected
responsibility when
Alzheimer’s disease strikes
their grandmother.
meeting Room n209-n210,
hKcec
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 videosurveillance
cameras in
the city, he starts spying on
them and manipulating
them, meanwhile realising
that truth can have many
faces.
meeting Room n109-n110,
hKcec
pRiVate scReening
meeting Room n204-205,
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 Room n211-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 steampowered
battle walkers
and heat-ray biplane
squadrons.
meeting Room n101a, 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 Room n111-n112,
hKcec
11:30
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 Room n211-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 Room n101B, 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 nonprofit
arts job and her
dysfunctional family,