Cine Fan May/Jun/Jul 2026 Programme
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 2026.05.09 - 2026.07.12
Price: $75
Presented by: Hong Kong International Film Festival Society
Following the 50th Hong Kong International Film Festival, Cine Fan presents a rich and wide-ranging tribute to three towering figures in world cinema: Hungarian master Béla Tarr, Czech auteur František Vláčil, and renowned French novelist, screenwriter, and director Marguerite Duras. Running from May to July, the programme offers rare opportunities to explore their distinctive artistic visions and enduring legacies.
Widely regarded as the master of slow cinema, Béla Tarr, who passed away earlier this year, is celebrated for his austere long takes and uncompromising artistic vision. The Melancholy of Existence – Béla Tarr’s Contemplative Cinema, presents all ten of his feature films, including five collaborations with Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai: Damnation, Satantango, Werckmeister Harmonies, The Man from London, and The Turin Horse. The programme also highlights his early works - Family Nest, The Prefab People, and Almanac of Fall - tracing the evolution of a cinematic style that reshaped modern film language.
Under the title The Poetics of the Past – The Cinema of František Vláčil, Cine Fan offers a rare retrospective of one of Czech cinema’s most visionary directors. The selection includes six seminal works, ranging from his ambitious medieval epic Marketa Lazarová to the historical drama The Valley of the Bees, alongside his debut feature, The White Dove, as well as The Devil’s Trap, Adelheid, and Shadows of a Hot Summer.
Marking the 30th anniversary of her passing, The Transformative Scripts of Marguerite Duras brings together films adapted from her novels and original screenplays. Highlights include Alain Resnais’s New Wave classic Hiroshima Mon Amour and Henri Colpi’s Palme d’Or-winning The Long Absence. Also featured are Seven Days…Seven Nights by Peter Brook and Mademoiselle by Tony Richardson, both starring the unforgettable Jeanne Moreau. Adaptations of Duras’s autobiographical writings - including The Lover, her most celebrated novel, and The Sea Wall, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and Rithy Panh respectively - reflect her formative years in French Indochina.
The programme further showcases two films directed by the acclaimed writer and cultural critic Susan Sontag - Duet for Cannibals and Brother Carl - alongside two literary adaptations set against breathtaking African landscapes: Out of Africa by Sydney Pollack, and The Sheltering Sky by Bernardo Bertolucci.
Continuing Cine Fan's ongoing tribute to women in cinema, two of the screen's greatest icons, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, appear in Rouben Mamoulian's The Song of Songs and Queen Christina respectively, while Humberto Solás's Lucía recounts the turbulent history of Cuba through the lives of three women sharing the same name.
Completing the programme, a free screening of Lech Majewski's The Mill & the Cross - a mesmerising fusion of cinema and fine art that brings Pieter Bruegel's painting to life - will be presented in conjunction with Le French May.
The full programme and screening schedule for Cine Fan's May–June–July edition are available at https://cinefan.com.hk. Tickets for all screenings will go on sale to the public from 10 April via URBTIX.
Programme enquiry：(852) 2970 3300 / info@hkiff.org.hk
Website：https://www.hkiff.org.hk/
Ticketing：
URBTIX
Counter Booking: URBTIX Outlets
Internet Booking: www.urbtix.hk
Telephone Booking: 3166 1288 (10am-8pm)
Mobile App: URBTIX (Android, HarmonyOS and iPhone/iPad)
Ticketing Enquiries: 3166-1100 (10am - 8pm)
URBTIX
Counter Booking: URBTIX Outlets
Internet Booking: www.urbtix.hk
Telephone Booking: 3166 1288 (10am-8pm)
Mobile App: URBTIX (Android, HarmonyOS and iPhone/iPad)
Ticketing Enquiries: 3166-1100 (10am - 8pm)
What's On
Exhibition
2026.07.01 - 2026.12.31
Learning
10/F, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai
2026.06.06
