Key Dates: 16 May 2026 (16:15-18:05)
Access: Marché du Film badge holders
Main Venue: Palais K (Palais des Festivals)
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.
Category: HAF Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Zhang Tao
Produced by: Tong Siyu | Nanjing Sanmulin Film & Culture Media Co., Ltd.
Country of production: China
Original title: 擊壤而歌
Genre: Drama
Language: Shandong Dialect
Runtime: 150'
Completed in: 2026
In northern China, a rural couple face diverging paths after an accident erases the husband’s memory. She works in the city, while he returns to the village with their child.
Category: HAF Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Norris Wong Yee-lam & Wong Hoi
Produced by: Mabel Cheung Yuen-ting | Tango For Four Production Limited
Country of production: Hong Kong
Original title: 我阿爹想旅行
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Language: Cantonese, Japanese
Runtime: 105'
Completed in: 2026
Shan is asked to pick up a prop when spending time with her father in the hospital. Her father insists on driving Shan, and the two embark on an unexpected road trip filled with imagination.
Category: HAF Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Yosep Anggi Noen
Produced by: Gita Fara, Budi Setyarso, Leila S. Chudori | Pal8 Pictures
Country of production: Indonesia
Original title: Laut Bercerita
Genre: Drama
Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Runtime: 120'
Completed in: 2026
A young activist’s disappearance leaves behind a family caught between hope, memory, and an unending search for truth.
Category: HAF Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Lu Po-Shun
Produced by: Lu Po-Shun | InLight Film Studio, Verdant Peak Films
Country of production: Taiwan, Singapore
Original title: 懸日掛月
Genre: Drama
Language: Mandarin, Taiwanese, English
Runtime: 95'
Completed in: 2026
Amid an escalating feud in a rural Taiwanese village, a boy struggles to protect his secret friendship with his Singapore-raised best friend as adult tensions threaten to tear them apart.
Category: HAF Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Brian Tse
Produced by: Brian Tse, Samuel Choy | On The Road Studio Limited
Country of production: Hong Kong
Original title: 屎撈人—在路途上
Genre: Animation
Language: Cantonese
Runtime: 90'
Completed in: 2027
Excremen in the sewer lead a relaxed and stable life. As a terrifying crisis approaches, they have no choice but to defeat the opponent, or seek a new beginning.