, which won the Belinale's silver bear grand jury prize just last week.
Altogether HKIFF will screen 190 films from 58 countries, including 10 world premieres, 11 international premieres and 43 Asian premieres. Thanks to Hong Kong's increasing control of the COVID-19 pandemic, some 230 screenings will be held in cinemas, while 60 titles will be made available for online streaming.
Veteran Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan is HKIFF's Filmmaker in Focus for 2021. The event will host a retrospective of 13 of his seminal works and a commemorate book covering his career will be published. Kwan also will participate in a"Face to Face" seminar on April 5 to discuss his career, craft and life in the public eye.
Since international travel to Hong Kong is currently impossible, the festival has arranged to hold its usual Master Classes online. This year's participants are master documentarians Frederick Wiseman and Hara Kazuo. Screenings of Wiseman'swill be screened followed by discussions with the directors. Various other post-screening talks and seminars with featured filmmakers will be held throughout the HKIFF's 12-day duration.
The festival's 2021 historical sidebars include a collection of Japanese classics — including works by Mizoguchi Kenji, Ozu Yasujiro, Imamura Shohei and Yamada Yoji — celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the great Japanese studio Shochiku.
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