Spring Showcase No. 9!
7 days . 13 countries . 26 films

The Hawaii International Film Festival's Ninth Annual Spring Showcase is coming to Honolulu in just over two weeks!

The Box Office opens this Thursday, March 16 for HIFF Ohana Members! You'll be able to buy tickets on-line, by phone or fax or in person. Tickets sales for the general public start Monday, March 20.

Click through for box office info and the film schedule. Members and Sponsors can expect to receive Spring Showcase Program Guides in the mail this week.

Visit the Spring Showcase's homepage for the latest on rush line only screenings, special downloads for your Apple iPod and more!

Don't know where to start? Check out the one-line summaries below!

CRITICS' CHOICES
Friends With Money (USA, 2006) - direct from the 2006 Sundance Film Festival
Tsotsi (South Africa, 2005) - winner of the 2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film

PREMIERES
The Gift (Japan, 2006) - a tale of tragic love, based on the best selling Japanese novel
Always Sunset on Third Street (Japan, 2005) - winner of 13 Japanese Academy Awards
Minsan Pa (Philippines, 2005) - a gorgeous and smart melodrama, filmed in the Visayas

KOREA
Rules of Dating (South Korea, 2005) - a smart, sexy and adult comedy on relationships
Love Is a Crazy Thing (South Korea, 2005) - gritty tale of the Busan underground
The Bow (South Korea, 2005) - the 12th film from Kim Ki-duk, director of 3-IRON

WORLD CINEMA
20 Centimeters (Spain, 2005) - hit musical comedy about a narcoleptic transsexual
Iron Island (Iran, 2005) - black comedy set on a beached oil tanker
Parineeta (India, 2005) - song, dance and romance in 1960s Calcutta
Spring Snow (Japan, 2005) - based on the famous novel by Mishima Yukio
Zozo (Sweden, 2005) - a young boy goes on the road from Beirut to Sweden

COMEDIES
Citizen Dog (Thailand, 2004) - romance and magical realism in Bangkok, a la AMELIE
Linda Linda Linda (Japan, 2005) - Japanese schoolgirls, a talent contest and punk rock
Moonlight in Tokyo (Hong Kong, 2005) - Leon Lai and Chapman To are Rainman gigolos
Shopaholics (Hong Kong, 2006) - a psychiatrist and a millionaire chase Cecilia Cheung

AUSTRALIA
Little Fish (Australia, 2005) - a junkie's struggle, with Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving
Look Both Ways (Australia, 2005) - Australia's most award winning film of 2005

ACTION AND THRILLERS
Lady Vengeance (South Korea, 2005) - the sequel to OLDBOY
District 13 (France, 2005) - hip French action pic, with stunts that rival ONG BAK
Hard Candy (USA, 2005) - psychological thriller, wherein the hunter becomes the hunted
The Proposition (Australia, 2005) - outback western with Guy Pearce and David Wenham

LESSONS OF WAR - sponsored by the USS Missouri
Soong Sisters (Hong Kong, 1997) - Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung in the HIFF favorite
Spy Sorge (Japan, 2003) - an espionage thriller set in 1930s Tokyo
Letter from an Unknown Woman (HK, 2004) - lush romance set against war and invasion

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