Golden Scene Selection - October
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 2018.10.25 - 2018.10.29
Price: Standard ticket: $75 Tickets are available at URBTIX now.
"Golden Scene Selection", proudly presented by the Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC) and Golden Scene Company Ltd., will bring the audience a series of cherry-picked selections from around the world at the HKAC.
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Screening Schedule
25/10 (Thu) 8pm Border
26/10 (Fri) 7:30pm i've got the blues
27/10 (Sat) 2:15pm Distinction
4:45pm Bel Canto
8:15pm The Kindergarten Teacher
28/10 (Sun) 2:15pm Distinction
4:45pm Bel Canto
29/10 (Mon) 8pm The Kindergarten Teacher
Border (Preview Screening)
Director: Ali Abbasi
Cast: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Matti Boustedt
Sweden, Denmark | 2018 | 110' 00" | In Swedish with Chinese & English subtitles | DCP | Colour
25/10 (Thu) 8pm (PREVIEW)
Customs officer Tina is known for her extraordinary sense of smell. It’s almost as if she can sniff out the guilt on anyone hiding something. But when Vore, a suspicious-looking man, walks past her, her abilities are challenged for the first time ever. Tina can sense Vore is hiding something she can’t identify. Even worse, she feels a strange attraction to him. As Tina develops a special bond with Vore and discovers his true identity, she also realizes the truth about herself. Tina, like Vore, does not belong to this world. Her entire existence has been one big lie and now she has to choose: keep living the lie or embrace Vore’s terrifying revelations.
2018 Cannes Film Festival, Un Certain Regard Award
i've got the blues
Director: Angie Chen
Hong Kong | 2017 | 91' 00" | In Cantonese, With English (in parts) with Chinese & English subtitles | DCP | Colour
26/10 (Fri) 7:30pm
*Director Angie Chan will attend After-Screening Talk. (Conducted in Cantonese)
Does a person need nobility of the soul to be a great artist? Renowned HK artist Wong Yan-kwai says, "I'm a born painter, so I paint.” His famous line is: When you are used to poverty, you don't feel poor. In the interaction of Wong Yan-kwai and Director Angie, sparks and arguments, egos and humility, love and betrayal, and human complexities surface.
Won Best Documentary Award, Festival Film Dokumenter (FFD) 2017
Participated in the Busan and Vancouver International Film Festivals 2017, Taipei Film Festival and Hong Kong International Film Festival 2018 and the Singapore Chinese Film Festival 2018
Distinction
Director: Jevons Au
Cast: Jo Koo, Jennifer Yu, Kaki Sham
Hong Kong | 2018 | 99' 00" | In Cantonese with Chinese & English subtitles, supports Cantonese Audio Description | DCP | Colour
27/10 (Sat) 2:15pm
28/10 (Sun) 2:15pm
* Director Jevons Au will attend the after-screening talks. (Conducted in Cantonese)
** “Distinction” supports Cantonese Audio Description, for details, please call 25820248 for further information.
Ms Tsui (Jo Koo) is a music teacher in a special education needs (SEN) school, who is not able to switch to a mainstream school due to stereotyping and labelling; Zoey (Jennifer Yu) is an underachiever from a Band 1 school, who is struggling for the coming public examination; Ka Ho (Kaki Sham) is a rebellious teenager from a Band 3 school, who idles away his time and doesn’t care about his handicapped little brother…… When being assigned to helm a musical performance, Ms Tsui has to bite the bullet while juggling between work and personal issues; for the sake of earning higher school credit, Zoey volunteers in an extracurricular musical; to avoid being expelled, Ka Ho has no choice but to attend a musical in a SEN school. Three individuals take part in a musical they deem worthless for their own purposes, which turns out to be a journey of self-discovery towards their dreams and goals.
Bel Carto (Preview Screening)
Director: Paul Weitz
Cast: Julianne Moore, Ken Watanabe, Christopher Lambert, Sebastian Koch, Ryo Kase
USA | 2018 | 102' 00" | In English with Chinese & English (in parts) subtitles | DCP | Colour
27/10 (Sat) 4:45pm (PREVIEW)
28/10 (Sun) 4:45pm (PREVIEW)
Based on Ann Patchett’s best-selling novel, BEL CANTO is a dramatic love story that follows a famous soprano (Julianne Moore) who travels to South America to give a private concert at a party for a wealthy Japanese industrialist (Ken Watanabe). Just as the glittering gathering of diplomats and politicians convenes, the mansion is taken over by a guerrilla rebel group demanding the release of their imprisoned comrades. Threats are made, lives are lost, a tense negotiation begins, and a long standoff ensues.
While they are confined to the house, the hostages and their captors, who speak different languages, are forced to find ways to communicate. Music, especially the beautiful arias performed by Moore’s character, sparks a shared sense of camaraderie and even love, uniting the disparate housemates as they form unexpected bonds, overcome their differences, and discover their shared humanity.
The Kindergarten Teacher (Preview Screening)
Director: Sara Colangelo
Cast: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar, Anna Baryshnikov
USA | 2018 | 98' 00" | In English with Chinese subtitles | DCP | Colour
27/10 (Sat) 8:15pm (PREVIEW)
29/10 (Mon) 8pm (PREVIEW)
Stuck in Staten Island, married to a kind but oblivious husband, and living with kids that mostly ignore her, 40-year-old Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) plods through her days teaching kindergarten with growing numbness. Her one source of joy is an evening poetry class across the bay in Lower Manhattan. But one day everything changes—Lisa discovers that a five-year-old boy in her class may be the poet she can only dream of being. She becomes fascinated. Could this child be a prodigy? A Mozart? Fascination turns to obsession as Lisa pushes boundaries to protect the boy from a banal life she knows too well. In a harrowing climax, Lisa risks her career, her family, and her freedom to nurture his genius and possibly tap into her own.
Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic, Sundance Film Festival 2018
Tickets are available at URBTIX now.
Ticket prices: $75 / 60*
* 20% discount for full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder. Concessionary ticket holders must produce evidence of their identity or age upon admission.
** 20% off for each purchase of 4 or more standard tickets.
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Co-Presenters: Hong Kong Arts Centre, Golden Scene Company Limited
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