Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes to screen 13 Hong Kong films, tribute to Ann Hui

The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Brussels (HKETO, Brussels) is supporting the participation of Hong Kong films in the 45th Festival des 3 Continents held in Nantes, France, from 24 November to 3 December 2023.

With funding support from Create Hong Kong and HKETO, Brussels, the Festival is paying tribute to film director Ann Hui, with a retrospective of her work from 1981 to 2020.

The Festival will screen 13 Hong Kong productions, including 11 works by Ann Hui and a documentary about the filmmaker, titled Keep Rolling.

Also included in the programme is the French premiere of a 4K-restored version of Yonfan's 1995 film Bugis Street, as well as Johnnie To's 2009 film Vengeance.

HKETO, Brussels hosted a reception at the Festival on 30 November. Speaking at the reception, Deputy Representative of HKETO, Brussels, Miss Grace Li, praised Ann Hui for her achievements in the film industry which earned international acclaim and touched the hearts of audiences around the world for the past four decades. She remarked that the East-meets-West culture of Hong Kong, as well as the unique blend of contemporary and cosmopolitan lifestyle with Chinese heritage and tradition, shined through the films of director Hui.

Miss Li also highlighted that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government was keen to support the development of Hong Kong into an important centre for international creative exchanges, a role enshrined in the national 14th Five-Year Plan.

The Festival des 3 Continents screens feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America and presents film directors to the French public. This year, the Festival is bringing to the audiences 90 films with 240 screenings organized in 13 cities in the Loire-Atlantique region of France.

A still from Ann Hui's film "All About Love"