Daily DC Item: Made in Hong Kong Film Festival Kicks Off
Posted By Patrick On July 10, 2009 @ 8:30 am In Daily DC Item, Entertainment, Special Events | Comments Disabled
You don’t need to check the tag in the back to find out where all these films were made.
All the films in the Made in Hong Kong Film Festival [1] all hail from the Chinese city and the festival kicks off tonight with a screening of The Sparrow [2], a comedy about, “a gang of debonair pickpockets who come undone when a beautiful stranger enters their midst with a con of her own.” The festival will continue through August 23rd with a selection of films that have won me over based on titles alone. Such hits include My Mother is a Belly Dancer [3] and Tokyo Gore Police [4].
While most of the films will be shown in Cantonese or Mandarin, they will be subtitled in English. Best of all, it’s all FREE (however tickets are required [5], get the tickets at the theatre an hour before showtime to avoid the Ticketmaster service fees.)
All shows are at the Freer & Sackler Galleries [6].
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URLs in this post:
[1] Made in Hong Kong Film Festival: http://www.asia.si.edu/events/films.asp
[2] The Sparrow: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491044/
[3] My Mother is a Belly Dancer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0819794/
[4] Tokyo Gore Police: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1183732/
[5] however tickets are required: http://www.asia.si.edu/events/ticketInfo.asp
[6] Freer & Sackler Galleries: http://www.asia.si.edu/visitor/default.htm
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