HIFF LATE ADDITIONS
ABOuT TIME HAwAII PREMIERE
BLuE RuIN HAwAII PREMIERE
JuVENILE OFFENdER HAwAII PREMIERE
R100 HAwAII PREMIERE
uNITEd KINGdOM 2013 / ENGLISh / 123M DIRECTOR: Richard Curtis
uNITEd STATES 2013 / ENGLISh / 92M DIRECTOR: Jeremy Saulnier
SOuTh KOREA 2013 / KOREAN WITh ENGLISh SuBTITLES / 107M DIRECTOR: Kang Yi-kwan
JAPAN 2013 / JAPANESE WITh ENGLISh SuBTITLES / 100M DIRECTOR: Hitoshi Matsumoto
10/20 2:15 PM dOL
10/17 9:30 PM dOL 10/20 8:30 PM dOL
10/17 9:00 PM dOL 10/20 5:30 PM dOL
Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize, BLUE RUIN follows a mysterious beach bum whose quiet life is turned upside down by dreadful news regarding a past tragedy. He sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance but proves an amateur assassin, finding himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
Ji-gu is a 15-year-old juvenile offender under probation who lives with his ailing grandfather. When he is caught committing a crime, he is sent to the juvenile reformatory. Upon his grandfather’s passing, Ji-gu is reunited with his mother — whom he believed to be dead. Together they set out to make up for lost time. JUVENILE OFFENDER is Korea’s official entry for the Foreign Feature category for the Academy Awards.
EuroCinema Hawaii
Tim Lake is 21 and lonely. In the harsh morning light following a depressing New Year's Eve party, however, he discovers a family secret that will change his life forever. The moment Tim locks eyes with gorgeous Mary. But as soon as they've fallen in love, an unexpected glitch in the time travel renders them complete strangers again. Now, in order to win back Mary's heart, Tim will have to travel into the past time and again.
HIFF Extreme
Spotlight on Korea
HIFF Extreme
10/19 10:15 PM dOL 10/20 8:30 PM dOL A family man with a secret taste for S&M finds himself pursued by a gang of dominatrices in this sex comedy from Hitoshi Matsumoto (BIG MAN JAPAN). Nao Ohmori (ICHI THE KILLER) plays Takafumi, who escapes the pressures of daily life by joining a mysterious club, where the so-called Queens visit clients in real-life settings. While at first the rough treatment he receives from leatherclad women in cafés is enjoyable, Takafumi soon realizes that he's opened a door that cannot be closed.
PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT
FILM FOR ThOuGhT: BRIdGING CuLTuRES PRESENTED BY THE HAwAI’I coUNcIl
FILM FOR THOUGHT
a special post-screening scholar led discussion, while a companion booklet containing essays on all three films will be provided to audience members at all FFT screenings.
KORAN BY hEART
FoR THE HUMANITIES
FILM FOR ThOuGhT SCREENINGS:
Film For Thought is a special program presented in partnership with the Hawai’i Council for the Humanities designed to inspire critical discourse and community dialogue through the medium of film. The fourth annual Film For Thought program will feature three films, focused on the theme ‘Bridging Cultures’. The first screening of each film will be followed by
AMERICAN REVOLuTIONARY: ThE EVOLuTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS
ThE LOVING STORY OCTOBER 15 / 5:45 PM / dOL / SChOLAR-LEd dISCuSSION TO FOLLOW FILM See page 12 for film details.
NEW AMERICAN FILMMAKERS PRESENTED BY
with one featured filmmaker selected from the group (SEE PAGE 3).
THE VIlcEK FoUNDATIoN
NEW AMERICAN FILMMAKERS
Presented by the Vilcek Foundation, the mission of New American Filmmakers program is to highlight the contributions of gifted immigrant filmmakers to contemporary American cinema. In 2013, the seventh annual New American Filmmakers program will highlight the work of five talented, cutting-edge foreignborn artists, and will include a master class
2013 FALL USER GUIDE | HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
OCTOBER 17 / 6:00 PM / dOL / SChOLAR-LEd dISCuSSION TO FOLLOW FILM See page 11 for film details.
OCTOBER 11 / 6:45 PM / dOL / SChOLAR-LEd dISCuSSION WITh dIRECTOR TO FOLLOW FILM OCTOBER 13 / 11:00 AM / dOL See page 5 for film details.
2013 NEW AMERICAN FILMMAKERS:
ANdREW AdAMSON
NAF Feature Filmmaker Film: MR. PIP See page 14 for details.
JEAN-MIChEL dISSARd Film: I LEARN AMERICA See page 10 for details.
SOOJIN ChuNG
Film: ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW See page 8 for details.
ChAd hARTIGAN
Film: ThIS IS MARTIN BONNER See page 28 for details.
JuNYA SAKINO
Film: SAKE-BOMB See page 26 for details.
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