Asian Summer Film Festival in Vic, Spain screens seven Hong Kong productions

The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels (HKETO, Brussels) and Create Hong Kong jointly supported the 19th Asian Summer Film Festival in Vic, Spain, on 19-24 July 2022. The Festival is one of the celebration events of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

The Festival screened a total of seven Hong Kong productions or co-productions, of which four films are from 2021: Longman Leung's Anita, Wei Junzi's documentary Kungfu Stuntmen, Emily Chan's Madalena and Chui Chi-yiu's Remember What I Forgot.

As a prelude to the Spanish premiere of the biographical film Anita, the Festival screened three films starring Anita Mui, namely Stanley Kwan's Rouge, shown at the Festival's press conference on 8 July; and Sammo Hung's Moon Warriors and Corey Yuen's Saviour of the Soul, screened on 9 July .

HKETO, Brussels hosted an afternoon reception on 19 July to promote the Hong Kong productions to media representatives and film industry professionals. The reception included a tribute to Mui, with a compilation of visual material from her career and a presentation of the film Anita.

The Festival's opening night held later that evening focused on Hong Kong culture. Besides Mui's films and her classic songs, the audience also enjoyed a special lion dance featuring a lion from Vic's traditional folklore, and Hong Kong lions.