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Kore-eda Hirokazu, High-Profile Asian Filmmakers Back New Wave of Hong Kong HAF Projects
Renowned filmmakers including Kore-eda Hirokazu and Aditya Vikram Sengupta are backing emerging directors at Hong Kong's film financing forum.
Aditya Vikram Sengupta is producing Niladri Mukherjee’s debut “Republic of Mahalaxmi Apartment,” which examines India’s majority rule issues through the story of a single mother who becomes her housing estate’s public enemy after flagging a malfunctioning elevator. The lineup also features dramatic entries: Fan Ka Chun’s “Something in the Way” follows a face-blind detective confronting repressed memories of his missing mother, while Edmund Yeo’s “The Age of Goodbyes” explores complicated relationships between a woman, her stepdaughter, and the latter’s new lover in 1970s Malaysia. “There are nine projects from female directors this year, as well as several collaborations involving filmmakers from Asia, Europe, and North America, underscoring Hong Kong’s position at the crossroads of the global film industry.”
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