KUALA LUMPUR, May 28 (Bernama) — The Festival de Cannes Film Week will land in Hong Kong and make its Asia debut at pioneering retail destination K11 MUSEA, Victoria Dockside from 12-17 November 2019. An exclusive and intimate moment of cinema, the Festival de Cannes Film Week will present six films from the selection of the Festival de Cannes 2019 and invite a few select industry professionals to introduce their work and practices through a series of Q&As and masterclasses. Brought to Hong Kong by Pierre Lescure, President of Festival de Cannes, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate of Festival de Cannes and Adrian Cheng, Founder of K11 Group and Executive Vice-Chairman of New World Development, Festival deCannes Film Week is committed to the celebration of creativity, culture and cinema and is set to become the city’s iconic film week.
“The story of Festival de Cannes Film Week began in Buenos Aires almost ten years ago with the idea of taking the spirit of the Festival on a global journey, thereby continuing the dialogue with people from all over the world who visit us in Cannes every year in May and creating a cinema moment with a unique format. At the Festival de Cannes we invite the whole world to come to Cannes to celebrate the art of filmmaking, to discover the latest works of great contemporary directors and to get a taste for what is up and coming in the world of cinema. With our Festival de Cannes Film Week, we hope to initiate the very opposite by taking to the road and bringing the spirit of the Festival and the work of artists to other parts of the globe. There is no better place to extend this experience than Hong Kong which has seen the origins of so many great filmmakers who have come to show their films in Cannes!” said Pierre Lescure, President of the Festival, and Thierry Frémaux, its General Delegate.