International premiere of “Flowers of Evil”, Hong Kong “Fagara” as the opening film, and Japanese “Bone Born Bone” at the closure of Five Flavours 13th edition!
This year, as always, the festival will provide an opportunity to discover original voices of young and recognized directors from South Korea, Bhutan, Thailand or Vietnam. We will explore the charms and ills of Japanese peripheries: its harbour cities, outskirts and marginal territories. We will watch films highly appreciated by festival juries. Special consideration will be given to Hong Kong which today is experiencing a serious political crisis: our guest will be Fruit Chan, a star of its independent cinema. However, the Programme has also a place for juicy genre cinema: horror, action, perverse comedies are an ideal remedy for the November weather in Warsaw.
Here is the Programme in its strands:
NEW ASIAN CINEMA
Like every year the competition section presents challenging, daring films, boldly combining genre cinema with social sensibility.
And Your Bird Can Sing – dir. Sho Miyake – Japan 2018
Balloon – dir. Pema Tseden – China 2019
Bulbul Can Sing – dir. Rima Das – India 2018
Fagara – dir. Heiward Mak – China, Hong Kong 2019
Heavy Craving – dir. Hsieh Pei-ju – Taiwan 2019
Maggie – dir. Yi Ok-seop – South Korea 2018
Repossession – dir. Goh Ming-siu, Scott Chong Hillyard – Singapore 2019
The Red Phallus – dir. Tashi Gyeltshen – Buthan 2018
To Live to Sing – dir. Johnny Ma – China 2019
Wet Season – dir. Anthony Chen – Singapore, Taiwan 2019
Where We Belong – dir. Kongdej Jaturanrasamee – Thailand 2019
JAPAN: OUT OF FOCUS
The cinema of Japanese peripheries – seriously and with a grain of salt. A chance to meet the inhabitants of the city outskirts and small towns, who deal with everyday challenges, look for love and try to find a balance between traditional customs a modern lifestyle. The filmmakers who reach for themes and aesthetic choices absent in the mainstream, and have bold, unconventional ideas on the use of genre cinema schemes.
And Your Bird Can Sing [Polish Premiere] – dir. Sho Miyake – Japan 2018
Blue Hour [Polish Premiere] – dir. Yuko Hakota – Japan 2019
Born Bone Born [Polish Premiere] – dir. Toshiyuki Teruya (Gori) – Japan 2018
Demolition Girl [Polish Premiere] – dir. Genta Matsugami – Japan 2018
Flowers of Evil [International Premiere] – dir. Noboru Iguchi – Japan 2019
Fly Me to Saitama [Polish Premiere] – dir. Hideki Takeuchi – Japan 2019
Going The Distance [Polish Premiere] – dir. Yujiro Harumoto – Japan 2016
Mr Long [Polish Premiere] – dir. SABU – Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan 2017
One Cut of The Dead – dir. Shinichirou Ueda – Japan 2017
The Gun [Polish Premiere] – dir. Masaharu Take – Japan 2018
FRUIT CHAN RETROSPECTIVE
A review of works of the Hong Kong visionary who uses an original way of combining political topics with eroticism, crosses the borders of aesthetics and astonishingly portraits the multiethnic, modern-traditional, eastern-western society of the metropolis.
Dumplings [Polish Premiere] – dir. Fruit Chan – Hong Kong 2004
Durian Durian [Polish Premiere] – dir. Fruit Chan – Hong Kong 2000
Hollywood Hong Kong – dir. Fruit Chan – Hong Kong, Japan, UK, France 2001, 102'
Little Cheung – dir. Fruit Chan – Hong Kong 1999
Made in Hong Kong [Polish Premiere] – dir. Fruit Chan – Hong Kong 1997
Three Husbands [Polish Premiere] – dir. Fruit Chan – Hong Kong 2018
ASIAN CINERAMA
All the best from the Asian mainstream cinema: authorial views on reality and original approaches to genre conventions, in other words – the films nominated and awarded by Asian Film Awards Academy.
Believer [Polish Premiere] – dir. Lee Hae-young – South Korea 2018
Bulbul Can Sing [Polish Premiere] – dir. Rima Das – India 2018
Jinpa – dir. Pema Tseden – China 2018
Still Human [Polish Premiere] – dir. Oliver Chan Siu-kuen – Hong Kong 2018
Three Husbands [Polish Premiere] – dir. Fruit Chan – Hong Kong 2018
Tumbbad [Polish Premiere] – dir. Rahi Anil Barve, Anand Gandhi – India, Sweden 2018
MASTERS
BNK48: Girls Don't Cry [Polish Premiere] – dir. Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit – Thailand 2018
Fury [Polish Premiere] – dir. Le-Van Kiet – Vietnam 2019
Jinpa – dir. Pema Tseden – China 2018
Nina Wu – dir. Midi Z – Taiwan, Malaysia, Myanmar 2019
Throw Down [Polish Premiere] – dir. Johnnie To – Hong Kong 2004
HORRORS
Asian Horror Night
Door Lock [Polish Premiere] – dir. Lee Kwon – South Korea 2018
Krasue: Inhuman Kiss [Polish Premiere] – dir. Sitisiri Mongkolsiri – Thailand 2019
One Cut of The Dead – dir. Shinichirou Ueda – Japan 2017
The Odd Family: Zombie on Sale [Polish Premiere] – dir. Lee Min-jae – South Korea 2018
Tumbbad [Polish Premiere] – dir. Rahi Anil Barve, Anand Gandhi – India, Sweden 2018
Zombie Night
POLISH FLAVOURS
Every year Five Flavours festival seeks to present the cinema at the crossroads of cultures and participate in the dialogue between the Polish and Asian film worlds. This year's edition will host the official Polish premiere of “The Taste of Pho” directed by Mariko Bobrik.
The Taste of Pho [Polish Premiere] – dir. Mariko Bobrik – Poland, Germany 2019
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