Asian cinema is always very present in the Sitges Festival, especially in the Focus Asia section, although there is also an oriental representation in the official section.
Fruit Chan's new work "The Midnight After" is one of these Asian films, specifically produced in Hong Kong, that this year the Focus Asia section is too small and becomes part of the official section.
Known for films like «Three… Extremes«, In which he joined Park Chan-wook and Takashi Miike, two old acquaintances of the Catalan contest, to carry out an episode film, or«Dumplings«, A film in which he extended the story of his fragment of« Three… Extremes », Fruit Chan He is now arriving at the International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia with a film with apocalyptic airs.
«The Midnight After»Tells how 17 people on board a minibus realize when they come out of a tunnel that everyone has disappeared. From there they have to rethink their lives in order to survive, facing a strange virus, while they are chased by a masked man.
projections:
5/10 at 14.15:XNUMX in Auditori
6/10 at 11.00 in Prado
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic47QdbNQcY
More information - The official section of the Sitges Festival 2014 is completed