Hong Kong International Film Festival#About the organiser

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!Event name

!Date

!Opening film(s)

!Closing film(s)

!Filmmaker(s) in Focus

!Master Class(es)

!Ambassador

|27 June - 10 July 1977

|Italy: Year One (dir. Roberto Rossellini)

|A Touch of Zen (dir. King Hu)

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|26 June - 9 July 1978

|Raise Ravens (Cría Cuervos, dir. Carlos Saura)

The Seagull (Il Gabbiano, dir. Marco Bellocchio)

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|25 June - 8 July 1979

|Raining in the Mountain (dir. King Hu)

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|3 - 18 April 1980

|American Gigolo (dir. Paul Schrader)

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|9 - 24 April 1981

|Child of the Sun (dir. Kiriro Urayama)

The Uprising (dir. Peter Lilienthal)

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|1-16 April 1982

|Circle of Deceit (dir. Volkor Schlondorff)

Street Music (dir. Jenny Bowen)

Muddy River (dir. Kohei Oguri)

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|24 March - 8 April 1983

|Passion (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)

Moonlighting (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski)

Son of the North East (dir. Vichit Kounavudhi)

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|12-27 April 1984

|The King of Comedy (dir. Martin Scorsese)

Carmen (dir. Carlos Saura)

Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence (dir. Nagisa Oshima)

|First Name: Carmen (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)

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|29 March - 13 April 1985

|Full Moon in Paris (dir. Eric Rohmer)

Paris Texas (dir. Wim Wenders)

Mac Arthurs Children (dir. Masahiro Shinoda)

|Love on the Ground (dir. Jacques Rivette)

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|27 March - 11 April 1986

|Ping Pong (dir. Leong Po-chih)

Ran (dir. Akira Kurosawa)

Insignificance (dir. Nicolas Roeg)

|The Insomniac on the Bridge (dir. Raúl Ruiz)

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|10-25 April 1987

|The Green Ray (dir. Eric Rohmer)

To Sleep So As To Dream (dir. Kaizo Hayashi)

The Sacrifice (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)

|Document: Fanny and Alexander (dir. Ingmar Bergman)

The Stand-in (dir. Huang Jianxin)

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|31 March - 15 April 1988

|Les Affaires Publiques (dir. Robert Bresson)

Yeelen (dir. Souleymane Cissé)

Goodbye, Children (dir. Louis Malle)

|Wings of Desire (dir. Wim Wenders)

Red Sorghum (dir. Zhang Yimou)

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|23 March - 7 April 1989

|Ashik Kerib (dir. Dodo Abashidze and Sergei Parajanov)

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (dir. Pedro Almodovar)

Pellethe Conqueror (dir. Bille August)

|Betrayed (dir. Costa-Gavras)

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|6 - 21 April 1990

|A Terra-Cotta Warrior (dir. Ching Siu-tung)

|Song of the Exile (dir. Ann Hui)

|Krzysztof Kieślowski

Theo Angelopoulos

Fumio Kamei

Vasily Shukshin

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|28 March - 12 April 1991

|Li Lianying: The Imperial Eunuch (dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang)

|My American Grandson (dir. Ann Hui)

|Aki Kaurismäki

Idrissa Ouédraogo

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|10 - 25 April 1992

|Ripples Across Stagnant Water (dir. Ling Zifeng)

High Heels (dir. Pedro Almodovar)

|King of Chess (dirs. Yim Ho, Tsui Hark)

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|8 - 23 April 1993

|For Fun (dir. Ning Ying)

Opening Night (dir. John Cassavetes)

|The Wedding Banquet (dir. Ang Lee)

|Abbas Kiarostami

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|25 March - 9 April 1994

|Three Colours: Blue (dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski)

|Three Colours: White (dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski)

|Víctor Erice

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|7 - 22 April 1995

|In the Heat of the Sun (dir. Jiang Wen)

Summer Snow (dir. Ann Hui)

|One and a Half (dir. Lawrence Ah Mon)

Burnt by the Sun (dir. Nikita Mikhalkov)

|Ken Loach

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|25 March - 9 April 1996

|Hu Du Men (dir. Shu Kei)

From Dusk Till Dawn (dir. Robert Rodriguez)

|The King of Masks (dir. Wu Tianming)

Mahjong (dir. Edward Yang)

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|25 March - 9 April 1997

|Kitchen (dir. Yim Ho)

The River (dir. Tsai Ming-liang)

|The Valiant Ones (dir. King Hu)

|Arturo Ripstein

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|3 - 18 April 1998

|Beast Cop (dir. Gordon Chan)

Dragon Inn (dir. King Hu)

|Sweet Degeneration (dir. Lin Cheng-sheng)

|Errol Morris

Tony Gatlif

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|31 March - 15 April 1999

|Ordinary Heroes (dir. Ann Hui)

Where a Good Man Goes (dir. Johnnie To)

|Mr Zhao (dir. Lü Yue)

Crazy English (dir. Zhang Yuan)

|Johnnie To

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Walter Salles

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|12 - 27 April 2000

|Spacked Out (dir. Lawrence Ah Mon)

The Million Dollar Hotel (dir. Wim Wenders)

|A Chance to Die

Durian Durian (dir. Fruit Chan)

|Otar Iosseliani

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|6 - 21 April 2001

|Penoy Pavilion (dir. Yonfan)

Mortal Transfer (dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix)

|Yi Yi (dir. Edward Yang)

|Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Jean-Jacques Beineix

Darius Khondji

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|27 March - 7 April 2002

|Hollywood Hong Kong (dir. Fruit Chan)

Heaven (dir. Tom Tykwer)

|What Time is it There? (dir. Tsai Ming-liang)

|Ann Hui

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|8 - 23 April 2003

|The Twilight Samurai (dir. Yoji Yamada)

PTU (dir. Johnnie To)

|Cala, My Dog! (dir. Lu Xuechang)

Adaptation (dir. Spike Jonze)

|Jeffrey Lau

Dardenne brothers

Marco Bellocchio

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|SHINE

|6 - 21 April 2004

|Baober in Love (dir. Li Shaohong)

Jade Goddess of Mercy (dir. Ann Hui)

|Goodbye, Dragon Inn (dir. Tsai Ming-liang)

Not on the Lips (dir. Alain Resnais)

|William Chang

Kim Ki-duk

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|22 March - 6 April 2005

|Peacock (dir. Gu Changwei)

The Hidden Blade (dir. Yōji Yamada)

|The World (dir. Jia Zhangke)

Words in Blue (dir. Alain Corneau)

|Andy Lau

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|Andy Lau

|4 - 19 April 2006

|Election 2 (dir. Johnnie To)

Isabella(dir. Pang Ho-cheung)

|Snow Cake (dir. Marc Evans)

Candy (dir. Neil Armfield)

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|Andy Lau

|10 March - 11 April 2007

|Eye in the Sky (dir. Yau Nai-Hoi)

I am a Cyborg, but that's OK (dir. Park Chan-wook)

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|Herman Yau

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|17 March - 6 April 2008

|Kabei - Our Mother (dir. Yoji Yamada)

Soul of a Demon (dir. Chang Tso-chi)

|Shine a Light (dir. Martin Scorsese)

Coffee or Tea (dirs. Shu Kei, Kwan Man-hin)

|Eric Tsang

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|Sammi Cheng

|22 March - 13 April 2009

|Night and Fog (dir. Ann Hui)

Shinjuku Incident (dir. Derek Yee)

|24 City (dir. Jia Zhangke)

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|Karen Mok

|18 March - 6 April 2010

|Crossing Hennessy (dir. Ivy Ho)

Like a Dream (dir. Clara Law)

|Amphetamine (dir. Scud)

Ex (dir. Heiward Mak)

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|20 March - 5 April 2011

|Don't Go Breaking My Heart (dirs. Johnnie To, Wai Ka-fai)

Quattro Hong Kong 2 (dirs. Apichatpong Weerasethakul; Brillante Mendoza; Stanley Kwan; Ho Yuhang)

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|Wai Ka-fai

|Jia Zhangke

|Miriam Yeung

|21 March - 5 April 2012

|Love in the Buff (dir. Pang Ho-cheung)

|White Deer Plain (dir. Wang Quan'an)

|Peter Chan

|Keanu Reeves

|Miriam Yeung

|17 March - 2 April 2013

|Ip Man - The Final Fight (dir. Herman Yau)

|Closed Curtain (dirs. Jafar Panahi, Kambuzia Partovi)

|Andrew Lau

|Wong Kar-wai

|Miriam Yeung

|24 March - 7 April 2014

|Aberdeen (dir. Pang Ho-cheung)

The Midnight After (dir. Fruit Chan)

|That Demon Within (dir. Dante Lam)

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|Louis Koo

|23 March - 6 April 2015

|Murmur of the Hearts (dir. Sylvia Chang)

|Port of Call (dir. Philip Yung)

|Sylvia Chang

|Peter Greenaway

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Pedro Costa

|Louis Koo

|21 March - 4 April 2016

|Chongqing Hot Pot (dir. Yang Qing)

Trivisa (dirs. Frank Hui, Jevons Au, Vicky Wong)

|Creepy (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

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|Béla Tarr

|Louis Koo

|11 - 25 April 2017

|Love Off the Cuff (dir. Pang Ho-cheung)

|mon mon mon MONSTERS (dir. Giddens Ko)

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|Olivier Assayas

Agnieszka Holland

Ildikó Enyedi

|Louis Koo

|19 March - 5 April 2018

|Omotenashi (dir. Jay Chern)

Xiao Mei (dir. Maren Hwang)

|What a Wonderful Family! 3: My Wife, My Life (dir. Yamada Yoji)

|Brigitte Lin

|Werner Herzog

Tsai Ming-liang

Kazuo Hara

|Louis Koo

|18 March - 1 April 2019

|Bodies at Rest (dir. Renny Harlin)

|By the Grace of God (dir. François Ozon)

|Sammo Hung

|Lee Chang-dong

Asghar Farhadi

Jiang Wen

|Aaron Kwok

|Cancelled {{Notetag|name=Note1|HKIFF44 was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. When the cinemas finally reopened, HKIFF Society decided to bring the cancelled programme to local residents through a five week-long CineFest (September 30 - November 5).}}

|Keep Rolling (dir. Man Lim-chung)

Little Big Women (dir. Joseph Hsu)

|The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese (dir. Isao Yukisada)

|Michael Hui

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|Aaron Kwok

|1 April - 12 April 2021

|Septet: The Story of Hong Kong (dir. Ann Hui, Sammo Hung, Ringo Lam, Patrick Tam, Johnnie To, Tsui Hark, and Yuen Woo-ping)

Where the Wind Blows (dir. Philip Yung), later cancelled

|Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

|Stanley Kwan

|Frederick Wiseman

Kazuo Hara {{Notetag|name=Note3|Due to Covid-19-related travel restrictions, all the master classes were held online.}}

|Aaron Kwok

|15 August - 31 August 2022 {{Notetag|name=Note2|Following the government's announcement extending its social distancing measures to curb the escalating Covid-19 pandemic, HKIFF46 scheduled initially between 31 March and 11 April was postponed.}}

|Where the Wind Blows (dir. Philip Yung)

Warriors of Future (dir. Ng Yuen-fai)

|Tori and Lokita (dirs. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)

|Sandra Ng

|Dardenne brothers

Chung Mong-hong {{Notetag|name=Note3|Due to Covid-19-related travel restrictions, all the master classes were held online.}}

|Aaron Kwok

| 30 March - 10 April 2023

|Mad Fate (dir. Soi Cheang)

Elegies (dir. Ann Hui)

|Vital Sign (dir. Cheuk Wan-chi)

|Aaron Kwok

| 28 March - 8 April 2024

|All Shall Be Well (dir. Ray Yeung)

|All the Long Nights (dir. Miyake Sho)

Martin McDonagh

|Karena Lam

| 10 April - 21 April 2025

|The Brightest Sun (dir. Tetsuya Nakashima)

Pavane for an Infant (dir. Chong Keat Aun)

|Dreams (Sex Love) (dir. Dag Johan Haugerud)

Wang Bing

|Angela Yuen

|Firebird Award: Song of Silence

Jury Prize: The End of Puberty

|Firebird Award: Jai Bhim Comrade

Jury Prize: Back to the Square

|Firebird Award: Muybridge's Strings

Jury Prize: Everyone Says I Love You

Special Mention: ORA

|The Mirror Never Lies

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|Firebird Award: In Bloom

Jury Prize: All Apologies

Special Mention: Longing for the Rain

|Firebird Award: Roots

Jury Prize: Oh, the San Xia

Special Mention: Redemption Impossible

|Firebird Award: Night Shift

Jury Prize: Room 606

|In Bloom

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|Firebird Award: Macondo

Jury Prize: The Tale of Iya

Special Mention: Forma

|Firebird Award: My Name Is Salt

Jury Prize: The Last Moose of Aoluguya

Special Mention: Meat and Milk

|Firebird Award: Butter Lamp

Jury Prize: Cold Snap

Special Mention: Symphony no.42

|10 Minutes

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|Firebird Award: Sworn Virgin

Jury Prize: K

Special Mention: The Coffin in the Mountain

|Firebird Award: I am the People

Jury Prize: A Young Patriot

|Firebird Award: Listen

Jury Prize: A Blue Room

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|Firebird Award: Life After Life

Jury Prize: Tomcat

|Firebird Award: Behemoth

Jury Prize: Under The Sun

|Firebird Award: Batrachian's Ballad

Jury Prize: Prelude to the General

|The Island Funeral

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|Firebird Award: My Happy Family

Jury Prize: Newton

|Firebird Award: House in the Fields

Jury Prize: Inmates

|Firebird Award: Jukai

Jury Prize: Ten Mornings Ten Evenings And One Horizon

Special Mention: Everything

|Happy Bus Day

|Mad World

|Firebird Award: Girls Always Happy

Jury Prize: Daughter of Mine

|Firebird Award: Of Love & Law

Jury Prize: The Distant Barking of Dogs

Special Mention: Mama

|Firebird Award: Wicked Girl

Jury Prize: The Burden

|Girls Always Happy

|An Elephant Sitting Still

|Firebird Award (Chinese Language): A First Farewell

Firebird Award (World): You Have the Night

|Firebird Award: Midnight Family

Jury Prize: Advocate

|Firebird Award: All These Creatures

Jury Prize: The Call

|The Golden-Laden Sheep and the Sacred Mountain

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|Firebird Award (Chinese Language): The Cloud in Her Room

Firebird Award (World): This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection

|Firebird Award: The Painter and the Thief

Jury Prize: Once You Know

|Firebird Award: Genius Loci

Jury Prize: Heading South

|This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection

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|Firebird Award (Chinese Language): The Day is Over

Firebird Award (World): The Wasteland

|Firebird Award: Mr Bachmann and His Class

Jury Prize: Sabaya

|Firebird Award: Motorcyclist's Happiness Won't Fit Into His Suit

Jury Prize: Vadim on a Walk

Special Mention: Blessed Winter

|The Story of Southern Islet

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|Firebird Award (Chinese Language): A New Old Play

Firebird Award (World): Mediterranean Fever

|Firebird Award: All That Breathes

Jury Prize: Children of the Mist

|Firebird Award: Bestia

Jury Prize: The Bones

Special Mention: Sideral

|A New Old Play

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|Firebird Award (Chinese Language): Stonewalling

Firebird Award (World): Tótem

|Firebird Award: Apolonia, Apolonia

Jury Prize: The Hamlet Syndrome

|Firebird Award: Bear

Jury Prize: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

|Stonewalling

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|Firebird Award (Chinese Language): Snow in Midsummer

Firebird Award (World): Sons

|Firebird Award: Favoriten

Jury Prize: Obedience

|Firebird Award: The Meatseller

Jury Prize: Shrooms

|A Journey in Spring

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