HONG KONG FILMART 2021 March 15-18
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**Dear friends, we are thrilled to announce our line-up of films presented at Hong Kong Filmart**
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MR BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS
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by Maria Speth (THE DAYS BETWEEN, MADONNAS, 9 LIVES)
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2021 - Germany - Documentary - 2.39 - 217 min
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with Dieter Bachmann and the pupils of grade 6B
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MR BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS is an intimate documentary portraying the bond between an elementary school teacher and his students. His unconventional methods clash with the complex social and cultural realities of the provincial German industrial town they live in.
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"Just might restore your faith in humanity"- THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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"The perfect antidote to lockdown negativity"- SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
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"An absorbing and illuminating documentary"- VARIETY
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Screener Link available upon request
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FOREST – I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE
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by Bence Fliegauf (WOMB, JUST THE WIND)
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2021 - Hungary - Drama - 1.85 - 115 min
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with Juli Jakab (SUNSET), István Lénárt, Lilla Kizlinger
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Seven hypnotic and unpredictable short stories culminate in a psychological kaleidoscope of couples, families and friends, all connected by their common fate. A standalone-sequel to Bence Fliegauf's 2003 festival-hit FOREST.
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"All human live is here"- SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
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"The acting is impressively intense all around, with standouts including Juli Jakab"- CINEUROPA
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Screener Link available upon request
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WHO WE WERE
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by Marc Bauder (MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE, THE SYSTEM)
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2021 - Germany - Documentary - 2.39 - 114 min
(90 min TV Version available)
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with Matthieu Ricard, Alexander Gerst, Sylvia Earle
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WHO WE WERE observes the current state of the world, accompanied by six intellectuals and scientists who reflect on the present and postulate about the future. Director Marc Bauder follows his interviewees into the depths of the ocean, to the top of the world, and out into the far reaches of space. Together, they explore the incredible capabilities of the human brain, a global economic summit, the legacy of colonisation, and the feelings of a robot.
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"A thoughtful, poetical and at times astonishingly beautiful meditation on the state of humankind and the world we live in"- BUSINESS DOC EUROPA
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"Who We Were paints a fundamentally hopeful, if sombre, picture of life on this planet. There is much work to be done, but the infectious passion of the experts makes a better, healthier world seem possible."- ONE ROOM WITH A VIEW
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Screener Link available upon request
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Fifty years after the premiere of Death in Venice...
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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD
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by Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri (PALME)
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2021 - Sweden - Documentary - 2.39 - 94 min (52 min TV Version available)
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In 1970, filmmaker Luchino Visconti travelled throughout Europe looking for the perfect boy to personify absolute beauty in his adaptation for the screen of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice. In Stockholm, he discovered Björn Andrésen, a shy 15-year-old teenager, who he brought to international fame overnight and led to spend a short but intense part of his turbulent youth between the Lido in Venice, London, the Cannes Film Festival and the so distant Japan. Fifty years after the premiere of Death in Venice, Björn takes us on a remarkable journey made of personal memories, cinematographic history, stardust and tragic events in what could be the last attempt for him to finally get his life back on track.
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Screener Link available upon request
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LA VERONICA
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by Leonardo Medel
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2020 - Chile - Drama - 1.85 - 100 min
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with Mariana Di Girolamo (EMA), Patricia Rivadeneira, Ariel Mateluna
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As the wife of a famous soccer player, Veronica has a bitter-sweet life: laying by the pool, attending photo-shootings, doing interviews for a book about herself but most importantly taking care of her Instagram account. In order to be the new face of a beauty campaign, she needs more than 2 million followers and LA VERONICA is ready to do whatever it takes to get them...
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Screener Link available upon request
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DEAR COMRADES
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by Andrei Konchalovsky (PARADISE, THE POSTMAN’S WHITE NIGHTS, HOUSE OF FOOLS)
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2020 - Russia - Drama - 2.39 - 120 min
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with Julia Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov, Andrei Gusev
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A provincial town in the south of the USSR, 1962. Lyudmila, a devout Communist Party official and idealistic veteran of WW II, is a scourge of anything she perceives as anti-Soviet sentiment. Together with other local Party officials, she is taken by surprise by a strike at the local factory, in which her own daughter is taking part. As the situation quickly spirals out of control, Lyudmila begins a desperate search for her daughter in the face of curfews, mass arrests, and the authorities’ ruthless attempts to cover up the state violence. Her once unquestioning faith in the Party line is shaken by her growing awareness of its human toll, tearing apart the world she thought she knew.
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Screener Link available upon request
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