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‘Navel,’ ‘Motherhood,’ ‘Heirloom’ Share Honors at Evenly Spread HAF Project Market Awards
The honors were evenly distributed at the 2024 Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum project market awards with no film winning more than two prizes.
Zhang Zhongchen’s work-in-progress “The Land is Our Navel” (China), that tracks a surreal journey beginning in a village, will be one of five projects invited to go to Cannes. It will be joined by Upamanyu Bhattacharya’s animation “Heirloom” (India), which examines the dark side of nostalgia while celebrating Indian textiles; and Oliver Chan Siu-kuen’s “Montages of a Modern Motherhood” (Hong Kong), where a troubled new mother seeks an immediate solution to her problems. “This is a record-breaking number,” Dr. Wilfred Wong, chair of the Hong Kong Film Development Council, said during his opening remarks at the awards ceremony.
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