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Hong Kong’s Asia Film Financing Forum 2025 Projects

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Hong Kong’s Asia Film Financing Forum, the region’s leading movie project market, has unveiled the 25 titles selected for its upcoming 2025 edition. The program features films that are in development from some of Asia’s most accomplished directors and producers, including Kore-eda Hirokazu, Aditya Vikram Sengupta, Nai An, Stanley Kwan and Yeh Ju-Feng. 

The three-day event, the anchor component of the expanded Hong Kong International Film Festival’s Industry Project Market, will take place March 17-19 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre alongside the 29th Hong Kong Filmart. 

“Those shortlisted are remarkable for their cultural diversity. They showcase extraordinary storytelling in a broad range of genres, from action to sci-fi, fantasy, suspense, and horror,” noted HKIFF Industry director Jacob Wong, who added that the organization had received 276 in-development project submissions from 45 countries and regions, spanning Hong Kong, Thailand, Turkey, Japan, Kazakhstan and South Korea.

“There are nine projects from female directors this year, as well as several collaborations involving filmmakers from Asia, Europe, and North America, underscoring Hong Kong’s position at the crossroads of the global film industry.”

Wong added that 13 of the selected projects have already secured partial funding, with budgets ranging from $200,000 to $5 million. 

In keeping with HAF’s mission to support new Asian talent, ten of this year’s projects are from debut directors. 

Highlights include the France-China collaboration 49 Days from first-timer Hu Wei. Produced by Sylvie Pialat and Nai An, the film follows a divorced Chinese couple who reunite in Paris to arrange their son’s funeral and confront their past. From India, Aditya Vikram Sengupta produces new director Niladri Mukherjee on Republic of Mahalaxmi Apartment, which examines the country’s majority rule issues through a single-mother tenant who becomes her housing estate’s public enemy when she flags a malfunctioning elevator. Esteemed Japanese auteur Kore-eda Hirokazu, meanwhile, has thrown his support behind newcomer Yamaura Miyoh, the director of Yellow, which grapples with a character living a life of self-punishment after his involvement in a fatal car accident. 

The bulk of this year’s projects feature original stories, although there are two adaptations in the mix. Adapted from Chinese sci-fi writer Gu Shi’s Hugo Award-shortlisted novelette, filmmaker Wang Kunlin’s 2181 Overture focuses on a scientist who, upon waking up from cryogenic hibernation, must adjust to a new world while finding her lost daughter through a book she left behind. Edmund Yeo (Aqérat), a past winner of the Tokyo International Film Festival’s best director prize,  will direct The Age of Goodbyes, based on Malaysian writer Li Zi Shu’s bestselling novel.

Two projects featuring hometown Hong Kong directors are also in the mix. In Fan Ka Chun’s horror suspense thriller Something in the Way, a detective suffering from face blindness must stop himself from becoming a monster as repressed memories of his missing mother resurface. Open Fire by Sze Pak-lam and Lau Wing-tai (Guilt By Design), meanwhile, is a crime action-cum-disaster film that revolves around a firefighter who must rescue his wife from a slum fire ignited by Interpol during their raid on terrorism.

Wong added the HKIFF Industry Project Market will feature several animation projects at different stages of development or production in a new standalone section this year. Those shortlisted animation projects will be revealed in mid-February. The second edition of the biannual HKIFF Industry-CAA China Genre Initiative, a new program dedicated to Chinese-language genre films, won’t take place until 2026, but CAA China will offer a new script development award during this year’s market. 

The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society’s full selection of in-development projects for 2025 is below. 

2181 Overture**, Mainland China, CanadaDirector: Wang KunlinProducer: Zhao ZheyuanProduction Company: Yeahcheer Pictures Co.

49 Days, France, Mainland ChinaDirector: Hu WeiProducer: Sylvie Pialat, Nai AnProduction Company: Les films du Worso

Aanaikatti Blues, IndiaDirector: Arun KarthickProducer: Madhu MohanProduction Company: Manvasanai Cinema

The Age of Goodbyes, Taiwan, MalaysiaDirector: Edmund YeoProducer: David Tang, Edmund Yeo, Dennis Lai, Zhao JinProduction Company: Renaissance Films Limited

Besik. Homecoming, Tajikistan, KazakhstanDirector: Iskandar UsmonovProducer: Diana Ashimova, Yerlan Ibragim, Iskandar UsmonovProduction Company: A Team

The Bird Chaser, Mainland ChinaDirector: Zeng ZhiProducer: Li Tianyu, Joey Zhu YinyingProduction Company: Beijing Pinwu Cultural Communication Co., Ltd.

The Circumciser, The PhilippinesDirector: Jun Robles LanaProducer: Perci Intalan, Ferdy LapuzProduction Company: The IdeaFirst Company

Dead Tide, MalaysiaDirector: Kethsvin CheeProducer: Lee Sinje, Jin OngProduction Company: Fast Forward Films Sdn Bhd

Drive South Pray West, ThailandDirector: Panu Aree, Kong RithdeeProducer: Panu AreeProduction Company: Drive South Pray West Pictures

Giant Salamander, Mainland ChinaDirector: Yang HengProducer: Yang HengProduction Company: Xiangxi Meixi Space Culture Media Co.

Gone with the Wind, Mainland ChinaDirector: Zhao YanmingProducer: Aubrey Zheng LiyanProduction Company: Beijing Daxiwang Culture Media Co., Ltd.

Indigo Boy, TaiwanDirector: Bill ChiaProducer: Yeh Ju-Feng, Ivy Y.H. ChiangProduction Company: Fragrant Creative Integration Co., Ltd.

Innocent Flesh, Mainland ChinaDirector: Lin YihanProducer: Li Yuwen, Hattie YuProduction Company: Vast Vista Films

Lanka, IndiaDirector: Saurav RaiProducer: Saurav Rai, Ankita PurkayasthaProduction Company: Neonate Audio LLP

Mabui, JapanDirector: Fukunaga TakeshiProducer: Yamaguchi Shin, Eric NyariProduction Company: KNOCKONWOOD Inc.

Open Fire, Hong KongDirector: Sze Pak-lam, Lau Wing-taiProducer: Ivan WongProduction Company: Scene One Picture Limited

Pivot, TurkeyDirector: Melisa ÖnelProducer: Alara Hamamcioğlu BayraktarProduction Company: Vigo Film

Republic of Mahalaxmi Apartment, IndiaDirector: Niladri MukherjeeProducer: Aditya Vikram Sengupta, Priyankar PatraProduction Company: For Films

See You There, Mainland China, Hong KongDirector: Wong Yi-kwanProducer: Wang Hongwei, Song DafaProduction Company: Beijing Density Blue Film and Television Company

Seoulers, South Korea, USADirector: Hee Young Pyun, Jiajun Oscar ZhangProducer: Heejung Oh, Huang Yue, Christine ShenProduction Company: Seesaw Pictures

Somatization, Mainland ChinaDirector: Sun XiaoProducer: Wang Hongwei, Song Dafa, Lyu HangProduction Company: Beijing Granary Film Culture Co., Ltd.

Something in the Way, Hong KongDirector: Fan Ka-chunProducer: Lam Suk-yinProduction Company: LOUDPROVISION

A Stranger at My Door, Hong Kong, Mainland ChinaDirector: Zheng Lu XinyuanProducer: Stanley Kwan Kam-pangProduction Company: N/A

Waves Under the Sea, Macau, Hong Kong, Mainland ChinaDirector: Chan SileongProducer: Chan Hing-kai, Robin YungProduction Company: N/A

YELLOW, JapanDirector: Yamaura MiyohProducer: Kore-eda Hirokazu, Ohinata JunProduction Company: BUNBUKU



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