Cine Fan Summer International Film Festival 2017 Will Open with World Premiere of Paradox

24 July 2017 (Hong Kong) – The Hong Kong International Film Festival Limited (HKIFFS) announced the complete programme of Cine Fan Summer International Film Festival 2017(SummerIFF17) today.
Opening with the world premiere of local production Paradox, the festival will showcase a wide variety of 33 films with over 60 screenings from 15 to 29 August. World acclaimed Iranian director Mohsen MAKHMALBAF will also come to Hong Kong to attend a Master Class.

OPENING FILM
The Festival will open with Wilson YIP's Paradox, the third of his popular SPL action drama series. Starring Louis KOO as a police negotiator searching for his abducted daughter in Bangkok, the film promises amazing martial arts scenes featuring Tony JAA under the action choreography of Sammo HUNG.

CLOSING FILM
24 Frames, the posthumous final work of the Iranian master Abbas KIAROSTAMI, gives life to images in a mesmerizing touch of nature, bringing a perfect close to a life in film and the SummerIFF17.

MASTER CLASS
Iranian director Mohsen MAKHMALBAF will come to Hong Kong for the screening of The Nights of Zayandeh-rood, his controversial 1990 critique of society which could not be shown in Iran for 26 years. He will also present Salaam Cinema, his daring film that challenges documentary's notions on truth and reality. The director will meet the Hong Kong audience after the screenings.

HIGHLIGHTS
Local Heroes features director Roy SZETO's comedy-drama Shed Skin Papa, starring Francis NG as a dementia-ridden father who regains his youth, exploring themes of rebirth and reconciliation through an imaginative father-son relationship.
Outstanding movies from international film festivals continue to be this year's highlights. Deadpan comedy master Aki KAURISMAKI's The Other Side of Hope, a serious refugee story covered with an unworldly absurdity, took home the Berlinale Best Director Award.
Not-to- be-missed are the three competition films in Cannes this year. Korean director HONG Sang-soo stole the limelight with a rare distinction of having two films selected in Cannes, including The Day After, his adept play about infidelity and mistaken identity. Academy-Award- winning director Michel HAZANAVICIUS (The Artist) pays a stylistic homage to the great maestro Jean-Luc GODARD in Redoubtable. In The SAFDIE Brothers'; heist thriller Good Time, Robert PATTINSON hits a career high playing a scuzzy bank robber. Award-winning actresses illuminate the films with their distinguished performances. Isabelle HUPPERT is back in HONG Sang-soo's orbit to play 'a tourist in Cannes' in Claire's Camera, partnering with Berlinale Best Actress KIM Min-hee. The chameleonic Cate BLANCHETT plays 13 wildly different characters in Manifesto, bringing fresh possibilities to ideas that rock the world. Nacho VIGALONDO’s hilarious monster movie Colossal gives a terrific showcase for Anne HATHAWAY, who gives her fiercest performance as a killer kaiju. From legendary rockers to promising outfits, films about celebrated musicians always rock the scene.
Music fan Jim JARMUSCH taps a rich archive tracing the destruction and survival of iconic rock star Iggy Pop and the Stooges in Gimme Danger. Michael WINTERBOTTOM's On the Road follows British neo-grunge outfit Wolf Alice during its UK-Ireland tour, intertwined with a fictional love story. Liberation Day features the most absurd performance of the ex-Yugoslavian art-metal band Laibach in secretive North Korea.

SPECIAL PROGRAMME
The Festival will present 'Kings of Comedy – The Art of the Comedians' series which covers six films that define the unique form of Hollywood comedy classics, namely The Freshman, Steamboat Bill, Jr., City Lights, A Night at the Opera, Some Like it Hot and The Nutty Professor. Immortal comedians like Charlie CHAPLIN and Jerry LEWIS showcase the serious art of being funny.  Monty Python's surreal comedies will give audiences a taste of cult. Their influence on the styles of comedy is best illustrated in the bizarrely humorous Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.  Back to the screen are two droll masterpieces