Date: 28 – 30 May, 2019
Venue: Hong Kong Arts Centre, Louis Koo Cinema, Wan Chai
The tickets for each screening have a cost of HKD 50 and can be purchased at URBTIX (by searching HK Salento Int’l Film Festival 2019 or 香港薩蘭托國際電影節).
Internet Booking: www.urbtix.hk
Credit Card Telephone Booking: 2111 5999
Ticketing Enquiries: 3761 6661 (10am – 8pm daily)
Telephone Presenter: 2668 3022
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The Salento Cinema Film Society, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong, in collaboration with the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO), are pleased to present the 8th annual edition of the Hong Kong Salento International Film Festival to be held in Hong Kong from May 28 through May 30, 2019 at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, in Wan Chai, a multi-arts centre that fosters artistic exchanges locally and internationally, bringing the most forward creations to Hong Kong and showcasing homegrown talents abroad.
The eighth annual edition of the Hong Kong Salento International Film Festival is part of “Fare Cinema”, a project wanted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the support of the diplomatic Consular Network and the Italian Cultural Institutes to promote abroad quality Italian film productions. HKSIFF highlights world-class independent films with an Italian and international focus.
HKSIFF Opens in May for its 8th Edition
From Sunday May 28 through Thursday May 30, the celebration of international independent cinema from all over the world continues in Hong Kong. Since 2004, SIFF has been screening the world’s best indie films to large international audiences: a unique opportunity to watch the real independent cinema. Many of the festival’s “Official Selection” films become part of SIFF WORLD, which takes the films on tour every year through about 14 cities such as Hong Kong, Yerevan, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Santiago de Chile, London, Oslo and many more. The Hong Kong Salento International Film Festival will bring to Hong Kong a selection of the Best of the Fest 2018 Edition, to be screened at the Hong Kong Arts Centre – Louis Koo Cinema, one of the six best arthouse cinemas in Hong Kong. This movie spot has attracted its fair share of film lovers by showing alternatives to the latest hits. Making great use of its in-house cinema, viewers can enjoy a robust selection of films like classics, shorts, documentaries, foreign films and indies.
FILM FESTIVAL TRAILER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fENgE4ZjT-A
SCREENING SCHEDULE
The 2019 Edition will showcase 6 feature films from Italy, Brazil, China, USA and Iran.
All the screenings will take place at Louis Koo Cinema – Hong Kong Arts Centre.
Tuesday, May 28
6:30-8:36 p.m. – AGADAH by Alberto Rondalli
9:00-10:33 p.m. – ISOLATION by Morteza-Ali Abbas-Mirzaei
Wednesday, May 29
6:30-8:30 p.m. – COWBOY’S HEART by Gui Pereira
9:00-10:36 p.m. – IMPERFECT AGE by Ulisse Lendaro
Thursday, May 30
6:30-7:50 p.m. – DOMINO EFFECT by Fabio Massa
8:20-10:22 p.m. – KAYLA by Kate Bohan
DETAILS AND SYNOPSIS:
AGADAH by Alberto Rondalli | Italy 2018 | 126’ | H.K. Premiere
Language: Italian, Spanish with English Subtitles
Category III: Persons Aged 18 and Above Only / No one younger than 18 years of age are permitted to rent, purchase, or watch this film in a movie theatre
May 1734, Alfonso of van Worden, a young officer of the Walloon at the service of King Charles, received the order to reach his regiment in Naples in the shortest possible time. Lopez, his faithful servant, having tried to dissuade him from crossing the plateau of the Murgie, because the place is infested with ghosts and disquieting demons, sets off on a journey with him. In a fantastic plot, between dream and reality, which recalls the Decamerone and the Thousand and One Nights, Alfonso will live an initiatory journey, during ten long days, between hallucinations and magic in mysterious caves, infamous inns, scabrous loves and diabolical apparitions.
ISOLATION by Morteza-Ali Abbas-Mirzaei | Iran 2017 | 93’ | H.K. Premiere
Language: Persian with English Subtitles
Category IIA: Not suitable for children
Zohreh is stalked on the way home. She finds this out in the middle of the way and runs away. This leads to her death in a car accident. Her husband, Parviz, has the head jailer’s green light to go on bail for 72 hours to bury and say farewell to Zohreh. However he has other concerns…
COWBOY’S HEART by Guy Pereira | Brazil 2018 | 120’ | H.K. Premiere
Language: Portuguese with English Subtitles
Category IIA: Not suitable for children
Lucca is a struggling country singer who is forced by his manager Iolanda to record cheesy pop-country songs. Upon a disagreement during a studio recording session, Lucca returns to his hometown in order to find inspiration for his music.
IMPERFECT AGE by Ulisse Lendaro | Italy 2017 | 96’ | H.K. Premiere
Language: Italian, Spanish with English Subtitles
Category IIB: Not suitable for young persons and children
A film that goes straight to the heart of emotions. The imperfect age, adolescence, with all its excesses and, indeed, its innumerable imperfections. Camilla is a seventeen-year-old girl with the dream of becoming a dancer, despite her mother’s concerns. One day, at dance lesson, she meets Sara, an aspiring dancer like her, and her life will never be the same.
DOMINO EFFECT by Fabio Massa | Italy 2017 | 80’ | H.K. Premiere
Language: Italian with English Subtitles
Category IIB: Not suitable for young persons and children
The film tells the story of Lorenzo, a thirty year old that finally realizes his dream of going to Africa to teach. Right in the best moment of his experience, bad news about his health unleash a domino effect on his life and those of people close to him!
KAYLA by Kate Bohan | China/USA 2018 | 122’ | H.K. Premiere
Language: English, Mandarin with English & Mandarin Subtitles
Category I: For exhibition to persons of any age
Seven-year-old Kayla’s father dies unexpectedly on a mission in the U.S which changes Kayla’s life completely. She takes on the responsibility of her broken family. She inspires the people around her with love and singing. And in the end, she manages to carve out a happy life.