Hong Kong International Film Festival Society has introduced the 25 in-development initiatives chosen for this 12 months’s Hong Kong-Asia Movie Financing Discussion board (HAF). The road-up consists of a number of initiatives produced by high-profile filmmakers, together with Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda, India’s Aditya Vikram Sengupta and French producer and author Sylvie Pialat.
Kore-eda (Shoplifters, Monster) is producing Yellow, the characteristic debut of Yamaura Miyoh, a few man who lives a lifetime of self-punishment after a deadly automobile accident. Sengupta (Jonaki, Labour Of Love) is producing Niladri Mukherjee’s debut Republic Of Mahalaxmi Condo, which examines India’s majority rule points by way of a single-mother tenant who turns into her housing property’s public enemy when she flags a malfunctioning elevator.
Pialat (Les Miserables) is teaming with Chinese language producer Nai An (Blind Therapeutic massage, Thriller) on Hu Wei’s characteristic debut, 49 Days, a few divorced Chinese language couple who reunite in Paris to rearrange their son’s funeral and confront their previous.
Two main skills recognized for his or her work within the Taiwanese business are additionally presenting initiatives at HAF. Actress Lee Sinje (Betelnut Magnificence, The Eye), who debuted as an exec producer on Jin Ong’s Malaysian drama Abang Adik, is teaming with Jin to provide Malaysian filmmaker Kethsvin Chee’s Lifeless Tide.
Taiwanese producer Yeh Ju-Feng (A Solar, Bother Lady) is working with music video and TVC director Invoice Chia on Indigo Boy, a fantasy drama revolving round two shut associates who wrestle with their psychological sickness.
The road-up additionally embody 5 initiatives co-produced by Hong Kong firms and two that includes Hong Kong administrators – Fan Ka Chun’ s horror suspense thriller One thing In The Manner, and crime motion movie Open Hearth, from Sze Pak-lam and Lau Wing-tai (Guilt By Design).
Different initiatives from Southeast Asia embody Jun Robles Lana’s The Circumciser from the Philippines, Panu Aree and Kong Rithdee’s Drive South Pray West from Thailand and Edmund Yeo’s Taiwan-Malaysia collaboration The Age Of Goodbyes.
HAF is an anchor occasion of HKIFF Business Mission Market (March 17-19), which takes place on the Hong Kong Conference & Exhibition Centre alongside Filmart (March 17-20). HKIFF Business Director Jacob Wong mentioned the shortlisted initiatives “showcase extraordinary storytelling in a broad vary of genres, from motion to sci-fi, fantasy, suspense and horror.”
“There are 9 initiatives from feminine administrators this 12 months, in addition to a number of collaborations involving filmmakers from Asia, Europe, and North America, underscoring Hong Kong’s place on the crossroads of the worldwide movie business,” Wong continued. “At the very least 13 of the initiatives have already secured partial funding, with price range starting from US$200,000 to US$5M.”
HKIFF Business Mission Market may also annonce separate line-ups of works-in-progress initiatives and a brand new animation part. In the meantime, the second version of the biannual HKIFF Business – CAA China Style Initiative (HCG), devoted to Chinese language-language style movies, will happen in 2026. CAA China will provide a brand new script growth award throughout this 12 months’s market.
HAF IN-DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS 2025:
2181 Overture (China, Canada)
Director: Wang Kunlin
Producer: Zhao Zheyuan
Manufacturing Firm: Yeahcheer Photos
49 Days (France, China)
Director: Hu Wei
Producers: Sylvie Pialat, Nai An
Manufacturing Firm: Les movies du Worso
Aanaikatti Blues (India)
Director: Arun Karthick
Producer: Madhu Mohan
Manufacturing Firm: Manvasanai Cinema
The Age of Goodbyes (Taiwan, Malaysia)
Director: Edmund Yeo
Producers: David Tang, Edmund Yeo, Dennis Lai, Zhao Jin
Manufacturing Corporations: Renaissance Movies, Completely happy Collectively Photos
Besik. Homecoming (Tajikistan, Kazakhstan)
Director: Iskandar Usmonov
Producers: Diana Ashimova, Yerlan Ibragim, Iskandar Usmonov
Manufacturing Firm: A Group
The Hen Chaser (China)
Director: Zeng Zhi
Producers: Li Tianyu, Joey Zhu Yinying
Manufacturing Firm: Beijing Pinwu Cultural Communication Co
The Circumciser (Philippines)
Director: Jun Robles Lana
Producers: Perci Intalan, Ferdy Lapuz
Manufacturing Firm: The IdeaFirst Firm
Lifeless Tide (Malaysia)
Director: Kethsvin Chee
Producers: Lee Sinje, Jin Ong
Manufacturing Firm: Quick Ahead Movies
Drive South Pray West (Thailand)
Administrators: Panu Aree, Kong Rithdee
Producer: Panu Aree
Manufacturing Firm: Drive South Pray West Photos
Big Salamander (China)
Director: Yang Heng
Producer: Yang Heng
Manufacturing Firm: Xiangxi Meixi Area Tradition Media Co
Gone with the Wind (China)
Director: Zhao Yanming
Producer: Aubrey Zheng Liyan
Manufacturing Firm: Beijing Daxiwang Tradition Media
Indigo Boy (Taiwan)
Director: Invoice Chia
Producers: Yeh Ju-Feng, Ivy Y.H. Chiang
Manufacturing Firm: Aromatic Inventive Integration Co
Harmless Flesh (China)
Director: Lin Yihan
Producers: Li Yuwen, Hattie Yu
Manufacturing Firm: Huge Vista Movies
Lanka (India)
Director: Saurav Rai
Producers: Saurav Rai, Ankita Purkayastha
Manufacturing Firm: Neonate Audio
Mabui (Japan)
Director: Fukunaga Takeshi
Producers: Yamaguchi Shin, Eric Nyari
Manufacturing Corporations: Knockonwood Inc, Cineric Inventive
Open Hearth (Hong Kong)
Administrators: Sze Pak-lam, Lau Wing-tai
Producer: Ivan Wong
Manufacturing Firm: Scene One Image
Pivot (Turkey)
Director: Melisa Önel
Producer: Alara Hamamcioğlu Bayraktar
Manufacturing Firm: Vigo Movie
Republic of Mahalaxmi Condo (India)
Director: Niladri Mukherjee
Producers: Aditya Vikram Sengupta, Priyankar Patra
Manufacturing Firm: For Movies
See You There (China, Hong Kong)
Director: Wong Yi-kwan
Producers: Wang Hongwei, Track Dafa
Manufacturing Firm: Beijing Density Blue Movie and Tv Firm
Seoulers (Korea, US)
Administrators: Hee Younger Pyun, Jiajun Oscar Zhang
Producers: Heejung Oh, Huang Yue, Christine Shen
Manufacturing Firm: Seesaw Photos
Somatization (China)
Director: Solar Xiao
Producers: Wang Hongwei, Track Dafa, Lyu Cling
Manufacturing Firm: Beijing Granary Movie Tradition Co
One thing within the Manner (Hong Kong)
Director: Fan Ka-chun
Producer: Lam Suk-yin
Manufacturing Firm: Loudprovision
A Stranger at My Door (Hong Kong, China)
Director: Zheng Lu Xinyuan
Producer: Stanley Kwan Kam-pang
Manufacturing Firm: N/A
Waves Below the Sea (Macau, Hong Kong, China)
Director: Chan Sileong
Producers: Chan Hing-kai, Robin Yung
Manufacturing Firm: N/A
Yellow (Japan)
Director: Yamaura Miyoh
Producers: Kore-eda Hirokazu, Ohinata Jun
Manufacturing Firm: Bunbuku
