31/03/2021

The 45^th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF45) will offer additional tickets for sale to the public for close to 70 Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Tai Kwun, and Hong Kong Arts Centre screenings.

The announcement follows the government’s relaxation of social-distancing measures, lifting the seating capacity in cinemas and performance venues from 50 to 75 per cent starting 1 April. 

Most screenings benefitting from the increased capacity are previously sell-outs, including the festival’s opening and closing films – Septet: The Story of Hong Kong and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, Stanley KWAN’s Rouge, Center Stage (Director’s Cut), and First Night Nerves, and WONG Kar Wai’s three restored classics – Fallen Angels, Happy Together, and 2046­.  HKIFF45 will also make extra tickets available for the popular Shochiku Cinema: 100th Anniversary, Chinese-language restored classics, and world cinemas programmes. 

“We can now accommodate a larger audience for the screenings of award-winning films such as City Hall, About Endlessness, An Officer and a Spy, Rifkin’s Festival, and Wife of a Spy,” said Geoffrey WONG, HKIFFS Director of Programming.  “More people can come to experience exciting works like Minari, We Made a Beautiful Bouquet, Drifting, and Time by promising young filmmakers as well.”

Extra tickets for screenings from 1 to 7 April will go on sale this Thursday, 1 April, at 10 am through all URBTIX outlets.  

Extra tickets for screenings from 8 to 12 April will go on sale next Thursday, 8 April, at 10 am through all URBTIX outlets.   For details of the programme and ticketing information, please visit www.hkiff.org.hk.