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Easternlight Films will again have the pleasure of attending Berlin/EFM this year.
Easternlight Films is pleased to announce that we will again be joining you at Berlin/EFM this year with our sensational slate of titles, which includes: the action packed FATAL CONTACT, featuring rising star Wu Jing; dark Japanese thriller NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE; THE FOREST, an edge-of-your-seat horror; DOG BITE DOG, the latest hard-hitting film from director Pou-Soi Cheang, starring Edison Chen and Sam Lee; SHANGHAI KISS, an East-meets-West romantic comedy starring Hayden Panettiere ("Heroes"); and SHANGHAI BABY, where the passionate, life-loving young writer Coco must choose between romantic love and unbridled lust...
We will be in attendance and would love to meet with you, so If you would like to schedule a meeting with either Ying Ye, Laura Wu, Gary Hamilton, Jonathan Deckter or Lina Marrone to discuss any of our titles, please contact MiQi Huang at miqi@arclightfilms.com.
We will be situated at Suite 8001, Maritim Hotel Berlin (phone: +49 (0) 30 2065-0) and we look forward to seeing you there!
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FATAL CONTACT (Action / Screening)
- 11th Feb, 17:30, Marriott 1
- 14th Feb, 17:30, Marriott 1
Kong is Mr Nice Guy from Mainland China performing
traditional opera in Hong Kong. He is convinced by Tin, a
girl from the same performance troupe, to compete in an
underground all-contact boxing ring. With his outstanding
fighting technique, he is immediately earning fast cash
and Tin's attention. However fighting brings out the most
Monstrous side of Kong, hence great fear develops. While
Tin continues to comfort him, Kong falls in love with her,
though she obviously has reservation towards their
relationship. The boxing ring's owner exploits Kong
further. He almost dies in a fight and subsequently
discovers Tin is paid by the baddies to lead him on to a
no-return path...
Director: Dennis Law
Cast: Jing Wu, Ronald Cheng, Theresa Fu, Ken Lo
Learn more about FATAL CONTACT at ArclightFilms.com |
NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE (Supernatural Thriller / Screening)
- 9th Feb, 19:30, Marriott 2
A Japanese detective investigates two mysterious suicides, somehow connected as the two victims dialed "0" on their mobiles moments before their death. The detective comes to learn of a man who has the supposed ability to manipulate people's dreams, and if the case is going to be solved, the detective succumbs to the realization that she must dial the mysterious "0" herself...
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast: Masanobu Ando, Yoshio Harada, Hitomi, Ryuhei Matsuda, Ren Osugi, Shinya Tsukamoto
Learn more about NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE at ArclightFilms.com |
SHANGHAI KISS (Romantic Comedy / Screening)
- 8th Feb, 15:30, Marriott 1
- 14th Feb, 15:45, Marriott 1
Liam (Ken Leung) is a struggling actor wasting his time picking up beautiful, plastic girls in hip Hollywood bars with his buddy, Joe (Joel David Moore). The closest thing to an emotional connection in Liam's life is a flirtatious friendship with 16 year old Adelaide (Hayden Panettiere), a precocious high school girl who is actually more mature than Liam.
When Liam learns he has inherited his grandmother's home in Shanghai, he travels to the exotic city to connect with his ancestry and start a new life. He meets a sophisticated Chinese woman named Micki (Kelly Hu) and finds himself falling into instant infatuation with her. Liam decides to move to China, leaving behind Adelaide who is quite possibly the only girl who has ever loved him, but running away from his problems only lands him in deeper trouble.
Director: David Ren, Kern Konwiser
Cast: Ken Leung, Hayden Panettiere, Kelly Hu, Joel Moore, Oliver Yan, James Hong, Byron Mann, Spencer Redford, Summer Altice, Timothy Bottoms, Kathleen Lancaster
Learn more about SHANGHAI KISS at ArclightFilms.com |
THE FOREST (Horror / Post Production)
A leopard in the mysterious terai jungles escapes the bullets of poachers, but when his wounds won't allow him to hunt his usual prey, he turns into a ravenous man-eater.
An urban couple on vacation have come to the jungle to sort out their troubled marriage, and a compelling human story unfolds as the hungry leopard is pitted against self-absorbed city-slickers in a night of terror...
Director: Ashvin Kumar
Cast: Javed Jaffrey, Nandana Sen, Ankur Vikal, Tarun Shukla, Salim Ali Zaidi
Learn more about THE FOREST at ArclightFilms.com |
DOG BITE DOG (Action Crime Thriller / Screening)
- 11th Feb, 19:15, Marriott 2
Starring Edison Chen and Sam Lee as a brutal hitman and sadistic cop respectively, the film revolves around Pang Jr., a young killer from Cambodia who arrives in Hong Kong to assassinate the wife of a judge.
After Pang finishes his job, he gets into a misunderstanding with his agent and is left stranded in the city's unfamiliar streets. At the same time, officer Sam and his team of detectives - Lam, Keo, Cheung, and Wai - arrive at the crime scene to investigate. Wai soon finds Pang with his intuition and starts pursuit, but is eliminated mercilessly. Thus, Pang and Sam become like two wild dogs attacking each other, with neither one wanting to stop until the other falls.
Director: Pou-Soi Cheang
Cast: Edison Chen, Sam Lee, Cheung Siu Fai, Lai Yiu Cheung, Lam Suet, Lam Ka Wah, Weiying Pei
Learn more about DOG BITE DOG at ArclightFilms.com |
SHANGHAI BABY (Drama / Post Production)
In rain-drenched Berlin, the passionate, life-loving young writer Coco seeks the closing chapter of her novel. She leads an intense life which revolves around endless nights spent in clubs, the local art scene, sex, literature and her writing.
Her life takes an unexpectedly complicated turn when she suddenly feels attracted to two very opposite men. One is the young Chinese artist Tiantian, who often suffers from melancholy and depression, the other is Mark: a blond, physically attractive, business consultant from Berlin. Caught between Far-Eastern traditions and Western lifestyles, between romantic love and unbridled lust Coco discovers too late that she has succumbed to Mark... with tragic consequences.
Director: Berengar Pfahl
Cast: Bai Ling, Pei-pei Cheng, Luke Goss, Katja Riemann
Learn more about SHANGHAI BABY at ArclightFilms.com |
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