2011 (35th) Hong Kong International Film Festival
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Profile
- Film Festival: Hong Kong International Film Festival
- Edition: 35th
- Period: March 20 - April 5, 2011
- Location: Hong Kong
Awards
- Asian Digital Competition
- Golden Digital Award - "Old Dog" - Pema Tsedan (Tibet)
- Silver Digital Award - "Eternity" - Sivaroj Kongsakul (Thailand)
- Special Mention - "The Sun Beaten Path" - Sonthar Gyal (Tibet)
- Humanitarian Awards for Documentaries
- Best Documentary - "Peace - Kazuhiro Soda (Japan)
- Outstanding Documentary - "Pink Saris" - Kim Longinotto (UK)
- FIPRESCI Prize - "Bleak Night" - Yoon Sung-Hyun (South Korea)
- Special Mention - "Good Morning to the World!" - Hirohara Saturo (Japan)
- SIGNIS Award - "Winter’s Bone" - Debra Granik (USA)
- Special Mention - "The Human Resources Manager" - Eran Riklis (Israel/Germany/Romania)
- Short Film Competition
- Grand Prize - "Pigs" - Pawel Wojtasik
- Jury Prize - "Little Children, Big Words " - Lisa James Larsson
South East Asian Feature Films @ 35th Hong Kong International Film Festival
Opening Films
- "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" - Johnnie To (Hong Kong) *Hong Kong Premiere
- "Quattro Hong Kong 2" - various (Hong Kong) *World Premiere
Awards Gala
- "Buddha Mountain" - Yu Li (China)
Gala Premieres
- "Hi, Fidelity" - Yuen-Leung Poon (Hong Kong) *World Premiere
- "Punished" - Wing-cheong Law (Hong Kong) *World Premiere
- "Sacrifice - Kaige Chen (China)
- "Vampire" - Shunji Iwai (USA/Canada) *Asian Premiere
- "Little Ghostly Adventures Of The Tofu Boy" - Gisaburo Sugii, Shimmei Kawahara (Japan) *World Premiere
Special Presentation
- "Last Romance" - Yonfan (Hong Kong) *World Premiere / Digitally Remastered Version
Asian Digital Competition
- "The Sun Beaten Path" - Sonthar Gyal (Tibet) *World Premiere
- "Good Morning to the World!" - Hirohara Saturo (Japan)
- "FIT" - Hiromasa Hirosue (Japan)
- "Balangay" - Robin Fardig, Sherad Anthony Sanchez (Philippines, Sweden)
- "Old Dog" - Pema Tseden (Tibet) *World Premiere
- "Senior Year" - Jerrold Tarog (Philippines) *International Premiere
- "Dance Town" - Jeon Kyu-Hwan (South Korea)
- "Eternity" - Sivaroj Kongsakul (Thailand)
Humanitarian Awards for Documentaries
- "One Nation, Two Cities" - King-wai Cheung (Hong Kong) *World Premiere
- "Bachelor Mountain" - Guangyi Yu (China) *World Premiere
- "Shattered" - Tong Xu (China) *World Premiere
- "Peace - Kazuhiro Soda (Japan)
- "Lumpinee" - Chira Wichaisuthikul (Thailand)
Master Class
- "I Wish I Knew" - Jia Zhangke (China, The Netherland)
Auteurs
- "Chongqing Blues" - Xiaoshuai Wang (China)
- "The Man Without Name" - Bing Wang (China)
- "The Ditch" - Bing Wang (China)
- "Oki's Movie" - Hong Sang-Soo (South Korea)
Hong Kong Panorama 2010-2011
- "beside(s,) happiness" Heiward Mak (Hong Kong) *World Premiere
- "Cure" - Bill Yip (Hong Kong)
- "Once a Gangster" - Felix Chong (Hong Kong)
- "The Stool Pigeon" - Dante Lam (Hong Kong)
- "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame" - Hark Tsui (China/Hong Kong)
- "The Drunkard" - Freddie Wong (Hong Kong/China)
Taiwanese Cinema Returns
- "The Fourth Portrait" - Mong-Hong Chung (Taiwan)
- "Hotel Blackcat" - Herb Hsu (Taiwan) *World Premiere
- "Return Ticket" - Yung-Shing Teng (Taiwan) *World Premiere
- "When Love Comes" - Tso-chi Chang (Taiwan)
Gala Presentation
- "The Unjust" - Ryoo Seung-Wan (South Korea)
- "The Man From Nowhere" - Lee Jeong-Beom (South Korea)
Global Vision
- "Hospitalite" - Koji Fukada (Japan)
- "When Hainan Meets Teochew" - Yew Kwang Han (Singapore) *International Premiere
- "Come Rain Come Shine" - Lee Yoon-Ki (South Korea)
- "Hi-So" - Aditya Assarat (Thailand)
Reality Bites
- "Yulu" - various (China) *World Premiere
- "Together" - Zhao Liang (China) *Asian Premiere
- "ANPO: Art X War" - Linda Hoaglund (USA, Japan)
- "The Day When the Sun Was Lost " - Fumiro Sato (Japan) *World Premiere
Dear Earth...
- "The Warriors of Qiugang" - Ruby Yang (China) *Asian Premiere
Indie Power
- "The Old Donkey" - Ruijun Li (China)
- "Single Man" - Jie Hao (China)
- "Winter Vacation" - Hongqi Li (China)
- "Are We Really So Far From a Madhouse?" - Hongqi Li (China) *International Premiere
- "Belkibolang" - various (Indonesia)
- "Heaven's Story" - Takahisa Zeze (Japan)
- "Love Addiction" - Nobuteru Uchida (Japan)
- "New World - Kah-Wai Lim (Japan) *World Premiere
- "Year Without a Summer" - Tan Chui Mui (Malaysia)
- "Anti Gas Skin" - Kim Gok, Kim Sun (South Korea)
- "Self Referential Traverse: Zeitgeist and Engagement" - Kim Sun (South Korea)
- "Bleak Night" - Yoon Sung-Hyun (South Korea)
- "The Journals of Musan" - Park Jung-Bum (South Korea)
Animation Unlimited
- "Piercing I" - Liu Jian (China)
I See It My Way
- "MILOCRORZE - A Love Story" - Yoshimasa Ishibashi (Japan) *International Premiere
- "Honey PuPu" - Hung-i Chen (Taiwan) *World Premiere
Midnight Heat
- "I Saw the Devil" - Kim Jee-Woon (South Korea)
- "Madame X" - Lucky Kuswandi (Indonesia) *International Premiere
20th Anniversary of Fortissimo Films
- "Love Letter" - Shunji Iwai (Japan)
- "Happy Together" - Kar Wai Wong (Hong Kong)
- "Devils on the Doorstep" - Wen Jiang (China)
Wai Ka-fai, Filmmaker in Focus
- "Peace Hotel" - Ka-Fai Wai (Hong Kong)
- "Too Many Ways to Be No. 1" - Ka-Fai Wai (Hong Kong)
- "The Longest Nite" - Tat-Chi Yau (Hong Kong)
- "Needing You.." - Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai (Hong Kong)
- "Help!!!" - Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai (Hong Kong)
- "Wu Yen" - Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai (Hong Kong)
- "Fat Choi Spirit" - Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai (Hong Kong)
- "My Left Eye Sees Ghosts" - Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai (Hong Kong)
- "Running on Karma" - Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai (Hong Kong)
- "Mad Detective" - Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai (Hong Kong)
- "Written By" - Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai (Hong Kong)
Kawamoto Kihachiro, the Puppet Master
- "Winter Days" - Kihachiro Kawamoto (Japan)
- "The Book of the Dead" - Kihachiro Kawamoto (Japan)
Shibuya Minoru, Master of All Trades
- "The Days of Evil Women" - Minoru Shibuya (Japan)
- "Doctor's Day Off" - Minoru Shibuya (Japan)
- "Drunkard's Paradise" - Minoru Shibuya (Japan)
- "Modern People" - Minoru Shibuya (Japan)
- "The Radish and the Carrot" - Minoru Shibuya (Japan)
- "Righteousness" - Minoru Shibuya (Japan)
- "The Shrikes" - Minoru Shibuya (Japan)
- "Good Man, A Good Day" - Minoru Shibuya (Japan)
Kuei Chih-hung, the Rebel in the System
- "The Delinquent" - Chang Cheh, Chih-Hung Kuei (Hong Kong)
- "The Killer Snakes" - Chih-Hung Kuei (Hong Kong)
- "The Teahouse" - Chih-Hung Kuei (Hong Kong)
- "The Deaf Mute Killer" - Chih-Hung Kuei (Hong Kong)
- "Killer Constable" - Chih-Hung Kuei (Hong Kong)
- "Hex" - Chih-Hung Kuei (Hong Kong)
- "Hex after Hex" - Chih-Hung Kuei (Hong Kong)
- "The Boxer's Omen" - Chih-Hung Kuei (Hong Kong)