FILMART 2023
13 - 16 March
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Find us @ Europe! Umbrella, Booth #1E A-18
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THE SHADOWLESS TOWER
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by Zhang Lu (DESERT DREAM, GRAIN IN EAR)
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2023 - China - Drama - 1.85 - 144 min
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with Xin Baiqing, Huang Yao, Tian Zhuangzhuang
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Gu Wentong, a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Oyang. A divorcé with a 6-year-old daughter and estranged from his father for decades, he is looking for a new perspective on life while reconsidering his failings as a father, a son, and a lover.
While the seasons come and go, people get together and move apart. Only one thing will remain the same: The White Pagoda where they all meet sooner or later...
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Screener link available upon request.
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WHITE PLASTIC SKY
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by Tibor Bánóczki & Sarolta Szabó (DEBUT FEATURE)
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2023 - Hungary/Slovakia - Animation Sci-Fi - 2.39 - 112 min
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with Tamás Keresztes, Zsófia Szamosi
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2123. Faced with diminishing resources, the human race can only survive through a trade-off: at the age of 50, every citizen is gradually turned into a tree.
When Stefan discovers that his beloved wife Nora has voluntarily signed up for donating her own body before her time, he sets out on an adventurous journey to save her at all costs.
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Screening:
TUE 14 MAR 10:00am Theatre 2 HKCEC
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THE KLEZMER PROJECT
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by Paloma Schachmann & Leandro Koch (DEBUT FEATURE)
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2023 - Austria/Argentina - Docu-Fiction - 1.85 - 115 min
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Argentinian cameraman Leandro makes a living from filming Jewish weddings. At one of his jobs, he falls in love with Paloma, the clarinetist of the Klezmer band. To seduce her he pretends to be shooting a documentary film about traditional Yiddish folk music.
What Leandro does not know is that his “fake” film project will take him on an unscripted journey throughout Eastern Europe in search of the last remaining Klezmer melodies.
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Screener link available upon request.
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THE BURDENED
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by Amr Gamal (10 DAYS BEFORE THE WEDDING)
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2023 - Yemen - Drama - 1.85 - 91 min
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with Khaled Hamdan, Abeer Mohammed, Isra'a Abeer
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Aden, Yemen. Isra’a and Ahmed put all their efforts into offering a normal life and education to their three young children. When they find out that Isra'a is pregnant again, they have to make difficult decisions guided only by their family's interest.
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Screener link available upon request.
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OUR BODY
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by Claire Simon (GOD’S OFFICES)
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2023 - France - Documentary - 1.85 - 168 min
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In a Parisian public hospital, Claire Simon questions what it means to live in women’s bodies, filming their diversity, singularity and their beauty in all stages throughout life.
Unique stories of desires, fears and struggles unfold, including the one of the filmmaker herself.
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Screener link available upon request.
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LUKA
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by Jessica Woodsworth (THE FIFTH SEASON, KING OF THE BELGIANS)
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2023 - Belgium/Italy/Netherlands/Bulgaria/Armenia - Sci-fi - 1.85 - 35 mm - 94 min
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with Jonas Smulders, Geraldine Chaplin, Samvel Tadevossian, Jan Bijvoet, Sam Louwyck
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Luka, a young and ambitious soldier, embeds himself in the legendary Fort Kairos where heroic warriors defend the remains of civilization. His hopes to serve as an elite sniper are crushed when he is assigned to maintenance and must submit to the code of Kairos: obedience-endurance-sacrifice. As he rises through the ranks, Luka finds joy and strength in friendships with Konstantin, an enigmatic radar engineer, and Geronimo, a light-hearted private.
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Screener link available upon request.
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