HKAFF Summer 2016
24 June 2016 - Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival Summer 2016 winners:
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Best Narrative Feature Film: Night Sea Journey (Austria) by Tina Feyrer. “After receiving an odd text from a stranger during dinner, Neeve decides to stay the night at her old friend Julius' house. As the evening progresses Neeve's reality begins to flip and the lines between sleep and awake become very blurred indeed.”
Best Documentary Feature Film: Crossroads of Journalism Dreams (China) by Xiaoran Liu. “What happens when Chinese students with a Chinese journalism background encounter contrasting journalistic ideals, ethics and principles when they arrive in New York? When it comes to these two discrete forms of journalism, Chinese versus American, how will they choose their career after graduation? Going back to China working under censorship and staying in America trying to get work visa, both are not easy for them. This documentary shows their choices and follows two years after their graduation. It tells the story of five young people, who experienced bitterness and happiness when facing the future.”
Best Narrative Short Film: Jeena (Thailand) by Thamsatid Charoenrittichai. “A story about a boy who try to communicate with his deaf girlfriend during they break-up.”
Best Documentary Short Film: Mara and Kaja, Dolina, Sava river (Croatia) by Alen Kocic. “Documentary short film about Mara and Kaja who live in the valley of the Sava River. They are two sisters aged 80, who live alone, have no children. They do not have any electricity, telephone, television, radio or cell phones. Nothing they do not need, they say. They do not know who the president, or prime minister, or cares. They are asylum simple beauty of life, in this asylum of today's world that would make everyone else that we can. We do not have everything we want, but if you look around you will see that we have everything we need. Peace and tranquility, how to achieve it? Simplicity. To show how the wealth and excess led us to a position of dependence and restlessness, depression and anxiety states. We forgot the little things in life, spiritual feelings, love, time spent in the family. The desire for more, better, stronger overran us all. What today means a normal man, the term is lost, we only have large and small people. The film shows the possibility of a simple life without technology, some would say it is poverty. Is that right?”
Best Animated Short Film: Sunicorn (U.S.) by Tuo Kan, Jinzhi Du. “A strange fisherman who lives in the North Pole owns a loving beautiful unicorn. He throws his unicorn to burn the moon into the sun. He transforms the moon into the sun in order to melt the snowy avalanche which will save his life.”
Best Underground Film: Dirty Back Seat (United Kingdom) by Ersel Ulutash. “A London cabbie gets his world turned upside down when a mysterious woman who is running away from a heist gone bad gets into his cab.”
Best Experimental Film: One floor above sing until someone swims with dolphins (Russia) by Vik Laschenov. “My heroes works in large corporations, buy food in the shops, have dinner at cafe and restaurants. They are successful, sleek, provided, but a little bit unhappy. They are trying to find themselves and unconsciously seek to the nature. They comes to the forest. They try to be so using familiar objects and comfortable ways of interacting with others. Their colleagues believe they moved in downshifting demons. They need something to do about it.”
Best Music Video: Tom And His Computer "Organ" (Denmark) by Martin Garde Abildgaard. “A captivating and surreal story about birth...”
Best Hong Kong Film: Miles to Go by Edwin Lee. “Miles to Go is set in a bleak depopulated Hong Kong, long abandoned by its former inhabitants. The film follows a courier who traverses the barren cityscape to deliver a special package to a mysterious individual...from another time.”
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Official selection Summer 2016:
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Welcome To Dead Hotel (China) by Li Bin
Silo, A Spiritual Path (Chile) by Pablo Lavín, Director, Pedro Miccelli, Art Director
No Place Like Home (U.K.) by Emily Langdon Smith
Playing Lecuona (Spain) by Pavel Giroud and JuanMa Villar Betancort
Sunicorn (U.S.) by Tuo Kan, Jinzhi Du
The king and the crown (U.S.) by Charlotte Neuwels
Smart Dress Is Absolutely Essential (U.K.) by Slawomir Milewski
Figurine (Canada) by
Private Waltz (U.K.) by Marina Waltz
Syncretic_Noise (U.S.) by Stephen Bullen
Jeena (Thailand) by Thamsatid Charoenrittichai
Something To Save You (Russian Federation) by Vis Vitalis
Kite Zhang's Kites (China) by Nathan Yun
Love Life Ghent (Belgium) by Jan Boon, Niko Himschoot, Laura Herminades, Anthony Schatteman, Anthony Van Roosendael, Yim Brakel
A Breath of Life (Greece) by
Dirigible (U.S.) by Sam Wolk
IRRLA3UFER (Germany) by Moritz Draheim
Scent of Love (U.S.) by Chengcheng Feng
Promenade (Argentina) by Cirila Luz Ferron
Miles to Go (Hong Kong) by Edwin Lee
Through Dark Glass (U.S.) by Miah Allsman
Für Elise (Taiwan) by Albert Ventura
Darkslide (Canada) by Brendan Petersen
Mama's Home (Hong Kong) by Nikhail Asnani
To Another Self (Taiwan) by Kimberly Ho
The Man From Death (U.S.) by Stephen Reedy
Four Wise Monkeys (U.K.) by Julija Iruskinaite
Sweet Girls (Switzerland) by Jean-Paul Cardinaux, Xavier Ruiz
At the Rodeo (U.S.) by Cris Siqueira
Broken Sight (Austria) by Herbert Gantner
Centaur (Bosnia and Herzegovina) by Aleksandra Niemczyk
Maniacs (Sweden) by Isabella Carbonell
Diversxs (Not Specified) by Afioco,, Jorge Garrido
Between Black and White (Greece) by Socrates Alafouzos
Julien's Bed (Not Specified) by Kirk Shannon-Butts
Mara and Kaja, Dolina, Sava river (Croatia) by
Nulla (Germany) by Delfina Mayer
Billets Doux (France) by Simon Thoral
Loon (U.S.) by Matthew Maloney
My Shell (U.S.) by Ashley Dallman
Dove (Greece) by Konstantinos Chaliasas
Morningdeer: Therapy (Hungary) by Nikol Cibulya
Skate.for.Real (Hong Kong) by Alex.Rodriguez
Night Sea Journey (Austria) by Tina Feyrer
Wait Wait Spring (U.S.) by Cade Bursell
Noriko (Austria) by Christian Jilka
The Most Beautiful Thing In The World (Netherlands) by Danyael Sugawara
Fools (U.S.) by Benjamin Meyer
The Anatomy of Vengeance (Sweden) by Bogdan Szyber
Castling (Turkey) by SaÄ°f Hamad
The Final Resolution (U.S.) by Brian Ronalds
Nourhane, a child's dream (1080 file) (Lebanon) by May Kassem
Crossroads of Journalism Dreams (China) by Xiaoran Liu
Alfheim's Edge (U.K.) by Sam Mardon
Parallax (U.S.) by Kyle Sherling
New Arrival (France) by Le Corroller Marion
The Fish Of The Soul (France) by Lucente Jourdan
Rules of The Game (France) by Ambroise Carminati
Waste no.2 Wreck (Finland) by Jan Ijäs
Ghost Rockets (Sweden) by Michael Cavanagh, Kerstin Übelacker
Whistle (South Korea) by Lee WooSuk
The Runner (U.S.) by Justin Berardi
Scenes From Her Bedroom (U.S.) by Caitlyn Eckhardt
Bouquet (U.K.) by David Findlay
Nona (Italy) by Massimo Volta
The Kübler-Ross Model (Philippines) by Aya Ng
Bridge (India) by Amit Ranjan Biswas
Blood Hunters (Philippines) by Vincent Soberano
Reconstructing Reality (Netherlands) by Alice Wong
Tom And His Computer "Organ" (Denmark) by Martin Garde Abildgaard
Skytowers (Hong Kong) by Lam Chak Ki Hiro
The Separation Loop (Germany) by Leyla Rodriguez
All the other things (Russia) by Egor Chichkanov
Dog-Faced Honey (U.S.) by Elijah Noble El
Mikumentary REMIX (U.S.) by Tara Knight
Vici (U.S.) by Johnny Kirk
Butterfly (China) by Zhenxing Zhang
Deep Slumber (U.S.) by Kirby Light
Beginning (Korea, Republic of) by hyunjoo kim
Run (South Korea) by hyunjoo kim
Win (Kazakhstan) by Sabit Abdi
Aurora (Greece) by Despina Ikonomopulu
Nightide (U.S.) by Kevin Anderson
Exhibit (U.K.) by Pinar Ogun
Peer (Netherlands) by Jeffrey Tomberg
A Soldier Returns (U.S.) by Charles Tashiro
Holy Night (Germany) by Danae Diaz
Final Cassette (China) by Lianghong Deng
The Complete Circle (U.S.) by Jaime Ekkens
Cut Me Short (U.S.) by Camilo Barria
Midnight Delight (U.S.) by Rohit Gupta
Brutalism Beats (Germany) by Tosh Leykum, Janin Walter
Bahia Delivery (Brazil) by Thiago Sobreira Rodrigues
Runtime (U.S.) by Michael Selle
A Tiny Evolution of an Escapee (China) by Makar Ke Ma
Sparsh (Singapore) by Dag Kaszlikowski
The Girl Who Stole The Sun (Brunei Darussalam) by Atikah Zailani
Too much love will kill you (France) by Christophe Karabache
Another World - Those Who Come By Sea - (France) by Manuela Morgaine
Dead Country (Italy) by Giovanni Roviaro
Redd (U.S.) by zach sky
Dirty Back Seat (U.K.) by Ersel Ulutash
Confessional (Hong Kong) by Leo Chiu
Seven Never Wins (Australia) by Stella Kim
Enough. (Not Specified) by Naomi Mark
Staid (Ireland) by Paul O'Brien
Ursa Minor (Greece) by Elissavet Chronopoulou
The Sleeping Tree (Bahrain) by Mohammed Rashed Buali
On Copper Wings (U.S.) by Dave Fischer
RWANDArt (Not Specified) by Sarine Arslanian
Not Otherwise Specified (Portugal) by Patrícia Bandeira
The Earth is Flat (U.K.) by Patrícia Bandeira
One floor above sing until someone swims with dolphins. (Russia) by Vik Laschenov
Good Thinking, Those Who've Tried to Halt Nuclear Weapons (U.S.) by Anthony Donovan
We Were Swimming (U.K.) by Jesse May Fisher
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