The ASEAN Film Festival is screening two dozens of films with a curated selection of varied genres from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam in September.
Free tickets are also available at the official website of ASEAN Film Festival. Organizers said venues include cinemas of Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Emperor Cinemas, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong Palace Museum, Golden Harvest the Sky, M+ Cinema, and Tai Kwun.
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Post-screening talks with related countries’ film insiders are to be held for Malaysian film Malbatt: Misi Bakara on Sept 8, Isolation War of Indonesia on Sept 15, Rain Town of Malaysia on Sept 21 and Wonderland of Singapore on Sept 27.
Singapore Consul General in Hong Kong Ong Siew Gay noted the festival is bringing professionals and ordinary people of the region closer. Wonderland is a new production about a touching family story, he added.
On Saturday, Hong Kong Arts Center staged 7 Letters, a Singapore film that recounts seven different stories of the city state’s multiethnic groups and was dedicated to its national day celebration in 2015. Royston Tan, director and producer, interacted with audiences during discussions after the show.
Organized by the Hong Kong-ASEAN Foundation, the ASEAN Film Festival goes into its second edition this year.
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The ASEAN Film Festival hopes to connect filmmakers and stakeholders from Hong Kong SAR and the Chinese mainland with ASEAN counterparts “for collaboration and co-creation of shared content”, according to Hong Kong-ASEAN Foundation Chairman Daryl Ng.
