As a contributory programme to the 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival, the Film Archive will screen 12 Amoy films and two reference films in March and April.
The films are part of its new programme, The Strange Case of Hong Kong Amoy Cinema, for audiences to rediscover this neglected yet important facet of local cinema history.
More than 200 Amoy-dialect titles were produced in Hong Kong between the 1940s and '60s, with many adapted from well-known Cantonese or Mandarin films. Most have been lost but the archive has acquired a small collection of titles.
Three of the films will be shown in the archive’s cinema on March 31, while all 14 films will be shown from April 8 to May 27.
The archive will also publish a research monograph entitled,
The Amoy-dialect Films of Hong Kong, in late March, explaining the trajectory and characteristics of Hong Kong's Amoy cinema.
A seminar will also be held at the archive on April 8, in Mandarin and Cantonese.
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