Giddens Ko comedy “Monsters” to close Hong Kong Int’l Film FestMarch 15, 2017 - 16:39 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Taiwan writer and director Giddens Ko’s thriller “mon mon mon Monsters” has been set as the closing movie of the 41st Hong Kong International Film Festival. The film will play on April 25, Variety reports. Before that some 230 titles from 65 territories will be screened, including 69 world-, international- and Asian- premieres. The lineup was announced today, during the FilMart market that is currently being held in Hong Kong. “Mon mon on Monsters” is the second film as director for prolific novelist Ko who previously made 2011 pan-Asian hit “You Are the Apple of My Eye,” and latterly scripted “The Tenants Downstairs.” The festival announced a spotlight on Taiwan and is paying a 10th anniversary tribute to the late Edward Yang. Restored versions of some of Yang’s best known titles, including “Taipei Story” and “A Brighter Summer Day,” will be on show. HKIFF is also presenting a section dedicating to the 20th anniversary of the handover of the sovereignty of Hong Kong from Britain to China. It will be offering free screenings of Hong Kong films produced after 1997, including a restored version Fruit Chan’s “Made in Hong Kong.” The 2017 lineup includes several Berlin festival elements: golden bear best film winner, “On Body and Soul” by Hungarian director Ildiko Enyedi will play in Hong Kong. Poland’s Agnieszka Holland who won Berlin’s silver bear with “Spoor,” will present her film and head the jury for the Firebird Young Cinema Competition. French director, Olivier Assayas will bring “Personal Shopper.” Earlier the festival announced that Pang Ho-cheung’s “Love Off the Cuff”, the third instalment of his romantic comedy series starring Miriam Yeung and Shawn Yue, would be the opening night film. Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Armenia to participate in key EU meeting for the first time ever National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan has said that Armenia will for the first time participate in the Conference. U.S. reacts to Russia’s criticism of upcoming Armenia-EU-U.S. meeting Matthew Miller has weighed in on Russia’s criticism of an upcoming Armenia-EU-U.S. meeting. Lavrov sees ‘collapse’ of Russia’s ties with Armenia Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has underscored heightened tensions between Russia and Armenia. Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine |