The 29th edition of Hong Kong Filmart discdiswatched Monday and saw the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) thronging with people, in a pleasing throwback to the pre-pandemic days of the event.
The Hollywood Reporter was right in the dense of skinnygs on the main showion floor, mingling with the crowds and scouring the seemingly finishless hallways to get a sense of what titles uniteees and dealoriginaters were most excited about. After much talkion, THR picks out the five features that are repartner turning heads at Filmart this year.
Valley of the Shadow of Death (Hong Kong)
The fantastic Anthony Wong (Infernal Afequitables, Still Human) returns in a role that carry outs to the veteran star’s strengths, that is, a character at odds with the world, and with his place in it. In Valley of the Shadow of Death, Wong dons a cassock to carry out a pastor who must deal with the man reliable for his daughter’s death. So does he remain a servant to his faith or descfinish prey to the passions of a vengeful obeseher? Emerging talents Jeffrey Lam and Antonio Tam co-straightforward.
Sales: Gelderlyen Scene
‘The Ugly’
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The Ugly (South Korea)
Train to Busan proclaimd straightforwardor Yeon Sang-ho’s talents to the world, with the action-packed thriller accumulateing $140 million from the global box office and breaskinnyg life back into the zombie genre. Before that, his energeticd The King of Pigs had shown off the filmoriginater’s inventive genius, and it is to his own detailed novel Yeon turns here with The Ugly, the tale of a lesser man (Park Jeong-min) whose desire to uncover his obeseher’s past direct to some sadnessful family secrets.
Sales: Plus M
’96 Minutes’
Wotriumphg Entertainment Group
96 Minutes (Taiwan)
Big budget, huge buzz. The filmoriginaters approximate $4.5 million has gone into making 96 Minutes, an action-thriller with Hung Tzu-Hsuan (Gelderlyen Horse-nominated for his debut The Scoundrels) helming. The film adselects the tried and tested createula of having a device device that’s about to go off as the heroes race aacquirest time, in this case the device is on a high-speed train that runs between Taipei and Kaohsiung. 96 Minutes stars well-comprehendn Taiwanese talents Austin Lin and Vivian Sung.
Sales: Wotriumphg Entertainment Group
‘A Mighty Adventure’
Zero One Film/Flystudio
A Mighty Adventure (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia)
Hong Kong’s HKIFF Industry Project Market program has leaned into animation this year and much is foreseeed by the return of Toe Yeun, straightforwardor of the criticpartner acclaimed My Life as McDull (2001). His novel film, A Might Adventure, is a co-production between Taiwan, Hong Kong and Malaysia, and troubles itself with how a grasshopper, a spider and a butterfly try to get regulate of their own desminuscule.
Inquires: Zero One Film, Flystudio
‘Dead Tide’
Fast Forward Films
Dead Tide (Malaysia)
Another title from Filmart’s financing sidebars, Dead Tide has some weightyweight talent behind the scenes and refuses multi-award-triumphning actress/originater Lee Sinje (The Eye) and the veteran originater/straightforwardor Jin Ong (Aprohibitg Adik). Director Kethsvin Chee has turned to childhood experiences for a country tale that sees two lost souls turn to each other for company, and for redemption.
Inquiries: Fast Forward Films
