4° HONG KONG
SALENTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2015
The Salento International Film Festival has become an International event thanks to our “touring” concept, which started with film screenings in London at the Prince Charles Cinema (the only independent cinema in Central London) back in 2010. Since then SIFF Tour has presented many independent films around the world in cities like Zurich, Moscow, St Petersburg, Hong Kong, Santiago del Chile and more.
Our tour offers several distinct programs of recent independent feature films and short films from the Salento International Film Festival. The tour provides filmmakers with the unique opportunity of having their work screened in front of an international audience, and the audience with a rare opportunity to appreciate quality independent movies, which would generally not reach mainstream distribution.
The 5-day Hong Kong event, from May 6 through May 10 2015, will bring a selection of six feature films and two short-films. Three Features from new first time Italian directors: the drama Without Pity by Michele Alhaique starring Pierfrancesco Favino, about a construction worker who sidelines for his criminal uncle collecting debts and roughing people up. The italian-born director Andrea Pallaoro charts the breakdown of a California farming family in his visually ravishing but dramatically diffuse debut with his feature film "Medeas". Lorenzo Corvino introduces innovative film touts itself as the first “selfie” movie"Wax: We Are the X", a desire to capture the spirit and frustrations of Generation X, the post baby boomers who inherited the economic crisis of the prior generation and who now struggle to compete with the increasingly tech-savvy younger generations.
Three international films from Kosovo, Russia and Brasil: "Agnus Dei", the multi-awarded film directed by Agim Sopi based on a true story of Peter who lives together with his mother in Serbia during the Kosovo war. A drama directed by Eva Pervolovici, "Marussia", about a Russian mother and her 6 year-old daughter, who find themselves living on the streets of Paris, and the Brasilian action thriller “Chess Game” directed by Luis Antonio Pereira.
To complete the showcase we have the pleasure to present Sofia Loren latest movie “Human Voice”, a 23 min short-film, directed by her son Edoardo Ponti. Inspired by Jean Cocteau's iconic one-woman play presented last year at Cannes Film Festival. The program will be concluded by another short-film, that had its world premiere in Cannes Film Festival last year: “The Visit” directed by Israeli filmmaker Inbar Horesh.
A special thanks go to the Consul General of Italy Hon. Antonello De Riu and to the Italian Cultural institute Director Mr. Matteo Fazzi. Our sincere thanks also go to The Grand Cinema and to Mr. Jude Cheung and his staff for their constant help and valuable support.