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CUHK International Film Festival

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20 Oct 2014 - 24 Oct 2014

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Enquiries:

E-mail: isso@cuhk.edu.hk
Phone: 3943 1874

Synopsis of Lecture:

The CUHK International Film Festival, the first series of activities of the CUHK International Festival, will be showing five selected movies themed “Diaspora” from 20 to 24 October 2014. The after-screening discussions will be led either by CUHK teaching staff or external guests, including Ms. Angie Chen, Director of One Tree Three Lives, Mr. Owen Lau, founder of North Korean Defectors Concern and Mr. Wan Tsz Hin, editor of The Global Studies Journal. The premiere of The Act of Killing, nominee of Oscar Best Documentary Feature, is another highlight not to be missed!

1. One Tree Three Lives
Hualing Nieh, acclaimed Chinese novelist and essayist, founded the prestigious International Writing Program (IWP) with her late husband Paul Engle. Since 1967, over 1400 writers from more than 140 countries have taken part in its residency programme at the University of Iowa. The programme has nurtured generations of international writers. This documentary follows Nieh’s remarkable life traversing cultures, languages, and continents as a perpetual “outsider.”
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYMFf5CJFjw
Date: 20 October 2014 (Monday)
Moderator: Prof. Simon Shen (Director of the Global Studies Programme)
Guest: Ms. Angie Chen, Director of One Tree Three Lives

2. The Act of Killing — **Premiere**
The filmmakers challenge unrepentant death squad leaders to dramatize their role in the Indonesian genocide in 1965. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass-murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit. The film was nominated for Oscar Best Documentary Feature and awarded with Panorama Audience Award at Berlin International Film Festival.
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9kqP3Cy19U
Date: 21 October 2014 (Tuesday)
Moderator: Mr. Kalvin Fung (Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Social Science)

3. Crossing
Yong-soo lives in a small village in North Korea with his wife and young son. One day, Yong-soo’s wife becomes critically ill, so he secretly crosses the borders of China hoping to earn money to cure her illness. After many life threatening moments, Yong-soo is forced into South Korea and becomes a refugee prohibited to return to his country. Meanwhile, his wife passes away leaving their young son alone in desperation. With no one to turn to, his young son sets out to find his father…
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyYilOhGw40
Date: 22 October 2014 (Wednesday)
Moderator: Mr. Owen Lau (Founder of North Korean Defectors Concern)

4. The Great Beauty
The main character is an aging socialite, Jep Gambardella, who once wrote a famous novel in his twenties, only to retire into a comfortable life writing cultural columns and throwing parties in Rome. After his 65th birthday party, he walks through the ruins and city streets, encountering the various characters, reflecting on his life, his first love, and sense of unfulfillment.
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I9gSGEK9eE
Date: 23 October 2014 (Thursday)
Moderator: Mr. Wan Tsz Hin (Editor, The Global Studies Journal)

5. Another Promise
The film is based on a true story about Hwang Yoon-mi, who died of leukemia while working in a semiconductor factory in South Korea. After learning that a number of Yoon-mi’s coworkers at the factory are also suffering unlikely diseases, the father Sang-gu suspects the factory had something to do with it.
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoDM1d8aqJ4
Date: 24 October 2014 (Friday)
Moderator: Mr. Steve Chung (Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Social Science)

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