2011 (8th) Hong Kong Asian Film Festival

Profile

• Film Festival: Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
• Edition: 8th
• Period: October 18-November 8, 2011
• Location: Hong Kong

Program

Opening Film

• "Life Without Principle" - Johnnie To (Hong Kong)

Closing Film

• "Let's Go!" - Ching-Po Wong (Hong Kong)

Gala Presentation

• "Starry Starry Night" - Tom Lin (Taiwan/China)

Asian Animation

• "Green Days" - Ahn Jae-Hoon, Han Hye-Jin (South Korea)
• "Tatsumi" - Eric Khoo (Singapore)

Cineaste Delights

• "CUT" - Amir Naderi (Japan)
• "Devil Nail Clippers" - Xun Zhou (China)
• "Hanezu" - Naomi Kawase (Japan)
• "Himizu" - Sion Sono (Japan)
• "Kaidan - Horror Classics" - Masayuki Ochiai, Shinya Tsukamoto, Sang-il Lee, Hirokazu Koreeda (Japan)
• "Late Autumn" - Kim Tae-Yong (South Korea)
• "Once Upon A Time In Anatolia" - Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey)
• "Smuggler" - Katsuhito Ishii (Japan)
• "Tokyo Koen" - Shinji Aoyama (Japan)

New Talent Award

• "Alms of the Blind Horse" - Gurvinder Singh (India)
• "Big Blue Lake" - Tsui Shan Jessey Tsang (Hong Kong)
• "Mr. Tree" - Jie Han (China)
• "Pick the Youth" - Ta-Pu Chen (Taiwan)
• "The Sword Identity" - Haofeng Xu (China)

Asian Wide Angle

• "Aarakshan" - Prakash Jha (India)
• "Datong: The Great Society" - Evans Chan (Hong Kong)
• "The Decisive Moment" - Wong Wai-Kit (Hong Kong)
• "Fable of the Fish" - Adolfo Alix Jr. (Philippines)
• "The Kite" - Prashant Bhargava (India/USA)
• "Kora" - Jiayi Du (China)
• "Macau Love Stories" - various (China)
• "Mushroom" - Vimukthi Jayasundara (India, Sri Lanka, France)
• "Palawan Fate" - Auraeus Solito (Philippines)
• "Sins of Fathers" - Moon Si-Hyun (South Korea)
• "Whores' Glory" - Michael Glawogger (Austria/Germany)

Director In Focus: Wang Xiaoshuai & Lou Ye: China In Transformation

• "11 Flowers" - Xiaoshuai Wang (China)
• "Frozen" - Xiaoshuai Wang (China)
• "In Love We Trust" - Xiaoshuai Wang (China)
• "Shanghai Dreams" - Xiaoshuai Wang (China)
• "So Close to Paradise" - Xiaoshuai Wang (China)
• "Love and Bruises" - Lou Ye - (China/France)
• "Spring Fever" - Lou Ye - (China)
• "Summer Palace" - Lou Ye - (China)
• "Suzhou River" - Lou Ye - (China)
• "Weekend Lover" - Lou Ye - (China)

Asian Superheroes

• "Invasion of Alien Bikini" - Oh Young-Doo (South Korea)
• "Karate-Robo Zaborgar" - Noboru Iguchi (Japan)
• "Let's Go!" - Ching-Po Wong (Hong Kong)
• "Madame X" - Lucky Kuswandi (Indonesia)
• "The Red Eagle" - Wisit Sasanatieng (Thailand)

Midnight Craze

• "Bloody Fight in Iron-Rock Valley" - Ji Ha Jean (South Korea)
• "The Raid" - Gareth Evans (Indonesia)
• "Yakuza Weapon" - Tak Sakaguchi, Yudai Yamaguchi (Japan)
• "The Yellow Sea" - Na Hong-Jin (South Korea)

Taiwan Cinema Express

• "Blowfish" - Chi Y. Lee (Taiwan)
• "Cherish" - Cheng-Yang Wang (Taiwan)
• "Children from the Distant Planet: My Name is Choy Jie" - Ko-shang Shen (Taiwan)
• "Days We Stared at the Sun" - Yu-Chieh Cheng (Taiwan)
• "Jump Ashin!" - Yu-Hsien Lin (Taiwan)
• "The Killer Who Never Kills" - various (Taiwan)
• "You Are the Apple of My Eye" - Giddens Ko (Taiwan)
• "The Inspired Island: The Coming of Tulku" - Tsun-Shing Chen (Taiwan)
• "The Inspired Island: Home In Two Cities" - Li-Chou Yang (Taiwan)
• "The Inspired Island: Ports of Mists" - Tsun-Shing Chen (Taiwan)
• "The Inspired Island: The Untrammeled Traveler" - Hwai-Eng Chen (Taiwan)
• "The Inspired Island: Towards the Completion of a Poem" - Chih-Yi Wen (Taiwan)
• "The Inspired Island: The Man behind the Book " - Jing-Jie Lin (Taiwan)
• "Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale" - Te-Sheng Wei (Taiwan)
• "Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale II" - Te-Sheng Wei (Taiwan)