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FESTIVAL DU FILM HONGKONGAIS DE PARIS
FESTIVAL DU FILM HONGKONGAIS DE PARIS (Paris Hong Kong Film Festival) is a Hong Kong film festival in Paris celebrating and promoting Hong Kong movies and culture. Through screening, conferences, and directors' talks, to raise awareness of Hong Kong movies and culture in the French community, It would be one of our most important projects in the coming five years, and we hope this film festival can become a completely self-sustaining project after our current five-year plan.
FESTIVAL DU FILM HONGKONGAIS DE PARIS 2023
Festival du Film Hongkongais de Paris made a great success! With the parntership with Auditorium Seynod in Annecy. We are proudly announce that Festival du Film Hongkongais will come to Annecy on 11-12 November,2023 !
For next year, we expect that the Festival can reach a larger base of French public and cine-fans through the recognition of local mayor as well as the support of the renowned public film archive centre – Forum des Images. Besides, we would like to organize special screenings with Association Formose en France in promoting independent films d’art, and we wish the enhanced relations of both associations would facilitate further cooperative art projects between the artists from both regions.
Last but not least, we are engaged to connect with the French distributors, who are interested in Asian film distribution. We hope that more Hong Kong films by the directors of new generations can be projected and distributed on the French cinematic market.
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Background of FESTIVAL DU FILM HONGKONGAIS DE PARIS
“Festival du film HongKongais de Paris” was an event organized by the non-governmental organization –AHKF(AfricaHongKongFrance) (in collaboration with Le Comité pour la Liberté à Hong-Kong) in June 2022 at the independent art cinema L’épée de bois, situated in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. The event was also organized in parallel with a political art exhibition, whose works were contributed by several famous Hong Kong artists (such as Kacey WONG and LAU Kwong Shing etc. The opening of the Festival was “May You Stay Forever Young” by LAM Sum and Rex REN, with the other four official selections (including “Suk Suk” by Ray YEUNG, “Port of Call” by Philip YUNG as well as the documentaries “Taking Back the Legislative” and “Inside the Red Brick Wall”), while the closing film was “Hand-Rolled Cigarette” by Kelvin CHAN Kin-Long. Directors’ talks via Zoom were organized during the screenings, while local speakers, such as Adrien GOMBEAUD (film critics), Jean-Philippe BEJA (sinologist), Laurent GAYER (researcher of SciPo), Julia CORNALBA (human rights defender) etc., were also invited to discuss with the audiences about the Hong Kong cinema, society and culture. The screening attendance (besides “Suk Suk”) was over 80% in general, in which over half of the audiences was the French public, with a mix of Chinese and Taiwanese audiences-base (around 30%) as well as audiences from the Hong Kong community (10%). Since the Festival Committee intended to promote Hong Kong Cinema to the French public as the principal objective, instead of merely serving the demand of the local Hong Kong community in Paris, the mentioned attendance results indicated a great success of the goal achievement.
However, "Festival du film HongKongais de Paris” was only a one-off project by AHKF. As both founders of Cube were invited by AHKF as the guest-organizers of the “The 1st Paris Hong Kong Film Festival”, Lok Kan CHEUNG and Kenneth YEUNG decided to establish a new association – Cube – to continue organizing “The Paris Hong Kong Film Festival” in the future. In 2023, Cube successfully negotiated with AHKF and inherited the trademark of “The Paris Hong Kong Film Festival” under the consent of AHKF.
1er Festival du film HongKongais de Paris
