The Hong Kong Worldwide Movie Competition Society (HKIFFS) has finalised the line-up for this yr’s Hong Kong-Asia Movie Financing Discussion board (HAF) with a collection of seven animation and 6 style tasks.
Three of the tasks are already in manufacturing or post-production: animated options The Excreman – On the Street, from Hong Kong’s Brian Tse, and Zsazsa Zaturnnah, from the Philippines’ Avid Liongoren; in addition to suspense thriller What My Bones Know, from China’s Qin Yuqi. They are going to be offered at HAF’s WIP Open Pitch alongside the beforehand introduced Works-in-Progress (WIP) tasks.
Animation tasks additionally embrace new works from the Philippines’ Carl Joseph E. Papa, whose newest work, 58th, a few 2009 bloodbath within the Philippines, premiered at Rotterdam movie pageant, and Chinese language director Lei Lei, who’s reuniting with producer Isabelle Glachant following their collaboration on Rotterdam 2022 title Silver Chook And Rainbow Fish (see particulars of line-up under).
Style tasks embrace suspense drama In The Title Of Proper, produced by Leste Chen and directed by Zhou Jinghao, whose Lady On Edge premiered in Cannes Administrators Fortnight final yr; crime thriller The Energy Plant, from Turkey’s Tayfun Pirselimoglu, revolving round a sequence of murders in a snow-covered mining city; and Korean filmmaker Park Kiyong’s motion drama Searchers: Blood In The Grass, which delves into the world of fentanyl trafficking.
The 13 animation and style tasks be part of the 17 In Improvement tasks and 12 Works-in-Progress already introduced. The complete line-up of 42 tasks will probably be showcased at HAF, a part of the HKIFF Business Mission Market, from March 17-19, alongside Filmart.
HAF ANIMATION 2026:
*First narrative function tasks
Fish Ball (South Korea)
Director: Jhun Yong-Duk
Producers: Rhee Han-Dae, Chen Xiayan
Manufacturing Firm: CocoaVision & AIOI Studios
Wet Goals (France, Iran)
Director: Alireza Ghasemi
Producers: Mojean Aria, Reza Baastani, Constance Le Scouarnec
Manufacturing Firm: Mystic Makers
Roxanne (China)*
Director: Chen Xudong
Producers: Lu Xiaowei, Chen Xiaoran
Manufacturing Firm: Fengduan Photos (Shanghai) Co
Sentinel (Philippines)
Director: Carl Joseph E. Papa
Producer: Geo Lomuntad
Manufacturing Firm: Tremendous!
Tooth And Tales (China, Hong Kong)
Director: Lei Lei
Producers: Isabelle Glachant, Pi San
Manufacturing Firm: Chinese language Shadows
The Excreman – On the Street (Hong Kong)
Director: Brian Tse
Producers: Brian Tse, Samuel Choy
Manufacturing Firm: On The Street Studio
Zsazsa Zaturnnah (Philippines, France)
Director: Avid Liongoren
Producers: Avid Liongoren, Franck Priot
Manufacturing Firms: Rocketsheep, Ghosts Metropolis Movies
HAF GENRE 2026:
*First narrative function tasks
In The Title Of Proper (China)
Director: Zhou Jinghao
Producers: Leste Chen, Emma Duan, Wang Yang
Manufacturing Firm: Guliguo Photos
The Energy Plant (Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria)
Director: Tayfun Pirselimoglu
Producers: Vildan Ersen, Radu Stancu, Vanya Rainova
Manufacturing Firm: Gataki Movies
Searchers: Blood In The Grass (Mongolia, South Korea)
Director: Park Kiyong
Producers: Park Kiyong, Nomuunzul Turmunkh
Manufacturing Firm: Hulegu Photos LLC
Unusual Root (Keinginan) (Singapore, Indonesia, Germany, Netherlands)
Director: Lam Li Shuen
Producers: Tan Bee Thiam, Looi Wan Ping, Mark Chua
Manufacturing Firm: 13 Little Photos
The Veil (Brazil)*
Director: Gabriel Motta
Producer: Aletéia Selonk
Manufacturing Firm: Okna Produções
What My Bones Know (China)*
Director: Qin Yuqi
Producer: Cui Zidong
Manufacturing Firms: Everlasting Development Stream Movie
