WINDSTRUCK: Jun Ji-hyun from MY SASSY GIRL returns to the screen as a police officer...who falls in love!

GLOOMY SUNDAY: In which Laszlo decides that he would rather have half of Ilona than none at all.

MY MOTHER THE MERMAID: a heart-warming melodramatic film that is sure to leave you going through a few boxes of Kleenex.

RUSH LINE ONLY MOVIES! The rush line forms one hour before showtime. All pass and ticket holders (members, priority and general public) please arrive early for a good seat.
VEER-ZAARA, April 7, 6:00 p.m.

SELLING FAST! These films will go rush line soon! Buy your tickets as soon as possible.
MY MOTHER THE MERMAID, April 5, 6:30 p.m.
WINDSTRUCK, April 5, 7:00 p.m.
A MOMENT TO REMEMBER, April 7, 6:30 p.m.

Here's more information about Tuesday's films!

GLOOMY SUNDAY is a 1999 German melodrama about love and betrayal at a Budapest restaurant during World War II. The film screened over eighty weeks in Boston and over sixty weeks in Los Angeles. There's a theater in New Zealand that been playing the film for four years! The story is a melodrama about love and betrayal at a Budapest restaurant during World War II, full of high romance like those American films of the 1940s and long on atmosphere and Old World charm.

Bob Green in the Honolulu Weekly says HIFF has a real winner:

"First of all, disregard the title—Gloomy Sunday— and get yourself, if you’re a fan of good storytelling, to Hawaii International Film Festival’s showing of this charming but ultimately powerful story."

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"I find the world of wine and wine-makers very salutary," he says. "It's much healthier in personal and social terms than the world of film.

"There are, he suggests, alarming parallels between the two businesses. Nossiter believes that just as Hollywood makes bland, standardized movies, Californian vineyards produce wine with little discernible character."

"The wine world is like a soap opera. It’s like Dallas. You have family conflicts, dynasties, the rich and the poor and all these generational struggles. I was interested in holding a mirror up to this world — sort of a drunken mirror."

Read the full interview (where Nossiter discusses MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, Steve McQueen and winemaking) here!

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Our colleague and San Francisco International Film Festival programmer Roger Garcia sums it up pretty well in his write-up for this film.

"Although this film does not have Nicholas Cage and Kathleen Turner, it does have Park Hae Il and Jun Do Yeon, in this truly enchanting time travel tale of love in a bygone era. The beautiful scenery in the film was shot on Udo Island, a with pristine beaches, lookout points and colorful coral. Udo Island (Udo, meaning "cow" because the island is shaped like one) is a popular location used by the Korean film industry. 80% of MY MOTHER THE MERMAID was shot there. A truly enchanting place for a truly enchanting tale."

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From the team behind MY SASSY GIRL, the seminal Korean box office hit that generated the current worldwide K-pop explosion, WINDSTRUCK reunites director Kwak Jae-yong with popular actress Jun Ji-hyun. Their winning formula of headstrong heroines entangled in absurd - yet heartfelt - romantic comedy continues in their latest smash hit. Filled with slapstick comedy, romance, and of course, the tides of destiny, this film will satiate the most ardent of Korean pop fans. The chemistry between Jun Ji-hyun (a true heartbreaker) and Jyang Hyuk (VOLCANO HIGH) is very strong. Nadine Kam of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin gave the film THREE AND A HALF STARS. Read her glorious film review!

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6:00 PM GLOOMY SUNDAY -- one night only
6:30 PM MY MOTHER THE MERMAID -- one night only
8:45 PM MONDOVINO
9:00 PM WINDSTRUCK -- one night only

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