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Spring 2018 Hawaii International Film Festival
April 13, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - April 15, 2018 @ 9:00 pm
Friday, April 13 – Sunday, April 15
Hawai’i International Film Festival Spring Showcase
The 21st Annual HIFF Spring Showcase presented by Halekulani is here! The Spring Showcase is HIFF’s annual ‘mini-festival’, showcasing some of the best Spring season films from across the globe. Like the main festival in November the Spring Showcase is a bridge between “East and West,” ranging from festival favorites from Sundance, Berlin, and Toronto, to Spring hits from across Japan, China, India, Korea and Southeast Asia.
The Palace Theater is proud to be a part of the Hawaii International Film Festival Spring Showcase with 4 full-length films to offer!
TICKETS: $8.50 General; $7.50 Seniors & Students. Purchase a HIFF PASS for $20 and see all four films. Tickets and Pass can be purchased at our box office or over the phone with a credit card at 934-7010, M-F, 10AM-3PM.
FRIDAY, APRIL 13
7PM
Corridor Four
81 Minutes / English / Documentary / United States
Directed by: Stephen Tringali
A nationally recognized K9 Unit Officer, Isaac Ho’opi’i is responsible for saving numerous people from the Pentagon during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Countless articles were written about his heroism following 9/11. He was photographed by Richard Avedon for a spread in USA Today. He appeared on NBC’s Today show. And he ran the Olympic Torch on its way to Salt Lake City for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
CORRIDOR FOUR is a feature-length documentary that illustrates Isaac’s story in the aftermath of 9/11. After all the news cameras had turned off and all the lights had dimmed, Isaac was left only with the horrific images he had seen and the memory of those he was unable to save. His is a story not of a hero basking in the glory of his past deeds, but of a human being filled with regret that he couldn’t change something completely out of his control.
SATURDAY, APRIL 14
7PM
1987: When the Day Comes
129 Minutes / In Korean with English Subtitles / Drama / South Korea
Directed by: Joon-Hwan Jang
In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and he begins looking into the case for truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.
SUNDAY, APRIL 15
2:30PM
Point of no Return
94 Minutes / English / Documentary / United States
Directed by: Kevin Glynn
Soaring at 26,000 feet without a drop of fuel, nothing is predictable. Not the weather, not the technology. And certainly not the fate of a man, alone for five days in a fragile, first-of-its-kind aircraft with nothing but ocean below. POINT OF NO RETURN takes you behind the headlines of the first solar-powered flight around the world – where two courageous pilots take turns battling nature, their own crew, and sometimes logic itself, to achieve the impossible. Not just to make history, but to inspire a revolution.
7PM
The Fortress
140 Minutes / In Korean with English Subtitles / Art House & International, Drama / South Korea
Directed by: Dong-hyuk Hwang
During the Qing Invasion of Korea, the king and the court take refuge in a mountain fortress, where they find themselves stranded in the cold and surrounded by the enemy. The king’s dilemma deepens as his people in the fortress start dying from cold and hunger.