HKIFF Industry offers filmmakers all-around services and windows to the world. From polishing up projects (Film Lab), finding production and post-production assistance (HAF), to showcasing work-in-progress works in international platforms (HAF Goes to Cannes), and on to planning the career of finished films (HKIFF Collection). HKIFF Industry also engages in co-production of films with third parties.
Goes to Cannes
Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF)
Projects
Goes to Cannes
Brief History of a Family
Category: HAF Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Lin Jianjie
Produced by: Lou Ying, Wang Yiwen, Zheng Yue + First Light Films
Country of production: China, Denmark, France, and Qatar
Original title: 家庭簡史
Language: Putonghua
Runtime: 99 min
Completed in: 2023
In post-one-child policy China, the fate of a middle-class family becomes intertwined with their only son’s mysterious new friend.
Goes to Cannes
Fly Me to the Moon
Category: HAF Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Sasha Chuk
Produced by: Stanley Kwan, The Flow of Words Limited
Country of production: Hong Kong
Original title: 但願人長久
Language: Cantonese, Mandarin, Hunan Dialect, Japanese
Runtime: 120 min
Completed in: 2023 or 2024
A pair of sisters moving from Hunan to Hong Kong in the 90s are faced with an identity crisis, poverty and their father’s drug addiction.
Goes to Cannes
Hani
Category: HAF Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Hou Dasheng
Produced by: Wang Hongwei, Li Zhaoyu, Li Shuaizhi (Jiagu Culture Communication Co. Ltd)
Country of production: Canada
Original title: 哈尼
Language: Putonghua, Hani Language
Runtime: 90'
Completed in: 2023
Deep in the mountain, 14-year-old Hani and 12-year-old Pushkar are ready to wed. After Hani makes a reckless act to obtain money for the dowry, the love between them is extinguished.
Goes to Cannes
Salli
Category: HAF Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Lien Chien-Hung
Produced by: Lee Lieh, Dennis Wu, Amanda Man-Yin Reinert, Uilin Ong
Country of production: Taiwan, France
Original title: 莎莉
Language: Mandarin, Taiwanese, English, French
Runtime: 110'
Completed in: 2023
An online romance with a foreigner takes a lonely middle-aged farmer to an unknown land. Despite everyone calling it a romance scam, she wants to prove that love indeed exists.
Goes to Cannes
Who Were We?
Category: HAF Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Tomina Tetsuya
Produced by: Hatanaka Mina, TETSUYA to MINA film
Country of production: Japan
Original title: Who Were We?
Language: Japanese
Runtime: 101'
Completed in: 2023
A woman who has no memory of her past falls in love with a man who also has no memory. Who were they before they met?