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A series of Hong Kong's recent films will mark their premiere in Montreal at the "Hong Kong Cinema" section of this year's Fantasia Film Festival from July 7 to July 25. The festival will also feature four representative works of the Shaw Brothers in the "Spotlight: Return of the Invincible Shaw Brothers" section.

The nine Hong Kong films, to be presented by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Canada), include latest productions such as the "Love Battlefield" , "White Dragon", "Breaking News" and "Three?Extremes". The Hong Kong Night on July 24 will specially screen film director Derek Yee's "One Nite in Mongkok", which won the Best Director and Best Screenplay awards at the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards. Mr Yee was also the winner of "Best Director" of the 11th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.

Shaw Brothers' legendary productions "Heroes of the East", "The New One-Armed Swordsman", "Shaolin Temple" and Bruce Lee's "Way of the Dragon" will complement the modern film series. All movies are to be shown at Theatre Hall Concordia (1455 de Maisonneuve O.) and Salle J A De Seve (1400 de Maisonneuve O.) in Montreal.

More than 100 films will be screened in the festival. Apart from Hong Kong, Fantasia will also feature other Asian films, including 25 Japanese feature films, and 15 Korean feature films including "Crying Fist", winner of Prix de la critique at the last Cannes Film Festival.  Other films are European, North and South American productions. Nine programs of short films will be featured, three of which showcase Quebec films.

The following is the schedule (Montreal time) of the Hong Kong films at the 9th Fantasia Film Festival:

"The New One-Armed Swordsman" by David Chiang, Ti Lung, Li Ching
July 9      2.45pm     Hall Theatre
July 10     3.20pm     J A De Seve

"Shaolin Temple" by Alexander Fu Sheng, David Chiang, Chi Kuan-chun

July 13     5.15pm    Hall Theatre
July 18     7.30pm    J A De Seve

Montreal Premiere "Breaking News" by Nick Cheung, Richie Ren                          
July 15     9.55pm    Hall Theatre
July 18     5.30pm    J A De Seve

Canadian Premiere "Love Battlefield" by Eason Chan, Niki Chow, Carl Ng
July 15     3pm       J A De Seve
July 18     9.45pm    J A De Seve
July 20     9.35pm    J A De Seve

Canadian Premiere "White Dragon" by Cecilia Cheung, Francis Ng, Andy On
July 17     5.15pm    Hall Theatre
July 24     1pm       J A De Seve

Hong Kong Night feature "One Nite in Mongkok" by Daniel Wu, Cecilia Cheung, Alex Fong
July 19     3pm       J A De Seve
July 24     8pm       Hall Theatre

Montreal Premiere "Three? Extremes" by Tony Ka-fai Leung, Miriam Yeung, Bai Ling, Kyoko Hasegawa, Lim Won-hee
July 22     11.55pm   Hall Theatre
July 23      9.20pm   Hall Theatre

"Heroes of the East" by Gordon Liu, Simon Yuen, Liu Chai-Liang
July 23      7.20pm   J A De Seve
July 24      3.30pm   Hall Theatre

The screening time of Bruce Lee's "Way of the Dragon" (restored version) is to be announced very soon.

Tickets are now available at the Concordia Hall Theatre and the Admission network  (Tel: 514-790-1245 in Montreal or 1-800-361-4595) at CAD$7.50 each.

Described as "the coolest festival in the world", the Fantasia Film Festival highlights the best in contemporary international genre cinema from around the world.  For details of the festival program, please visit http://www.fantasiafestival.com.

Ends/Thursday, July 7, 2005
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