UPDATE: The event has been postponed until 21 -31 May 2020.
The 8th China Women’s Film Festival – 3rd Hong Kong Edition will take place between 5 – 22 March 2020 at Eaton House, Hong Kong. This year’s festival includes film screenings, meeting with directors, networking events for filmmakers, workshops and post-screening discussions.
The China Women’s Film Festival is the first film festival in Asia dedicated to empowering women in films. It provides a space for international and Chinese filmmakers and artists to present their work that highlights the discrimination that women and the LGBTQ+ community faces around the world from a wide range of perspectives.
The China Women’s Film Festival (CWFF) was established in 2013. It is a non-profit organisation based in Beijing that uses art and film to spark discussion among the Chinese community about women’s and LGBTQ+ rights. In addition to hosting film festivals, the CWFF curates art exhibitions and organises cultural forums to provoke discussion about the importance of gender equality and LGBTQ+ rights in China. Through these events, the CWFF hopes to increase public awareness and visibility of female directors, women in art, and the multitude of challenges facing women around the world. Screenings and other events are held in both Beijing and Hong Kong during the festival.
This year the festival will bring thought-provoking, inspiring, and diverse stories of the story of women finding themselves, and their voices. Among works selected for the festival, some will be making their Asian premiere, all others will make their Hong Kong premiere.
This year’s line-up of films represent more than a dozen countries from Uruguay to France, USA to Australia. The narratives of this year’s films are a woman finding her real self, and it’s a long way to go for women to accept themselves for who they are. As been said, “There’s nothing rarer, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection.”
The films being exhibited are:
- Ask for Jane (USA) by Rachel Carey
- Los tiburones (Uruguay) by Lucía Garibaldi
- Canción sin nombre (Perú) by Melina León
- Carmen and Lola (Spain) by Arantxa Echevarría
- Papicha (France/Algeria/Belgium/Qatar) by Mounia Meddour
- Adam (Morocco/France) by Maryam Touzani
- Wild nights with Emily (USA) by Madeleine Olnek
- Way Back Home (Korea) by Park Sunjo
- MurMur (Canada) by Heather Young
- Animals (Australia) by Sophie Hyde
- Les Éblouis (France) by Sarah Suco
- Cassandro El Exotico! Cassandro, the Exotico! (France) by Marie Losier
- Delphine et Carole (France) by Callisto McNulty
- The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (Canada) by Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, Kathleen Hepburn
In addition to screening films, the festival will host few workshops for young filmmakers at various Hong Kong universities in which world-recognised film directors will share their knowledge with young Hong Kong filmmakers. All workshops are free of charge and open to the public.
Early bird tickets with 30% discount are available from the 1 – 15 February. For more information goto:https://chinawomensff.net/
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