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Golden Sword Woman

After his success as a martial arts film star, WONG Joi made a fatal decision to write and direct his debut feature Golden Sword Woman, with his beloved wife Mei-fung starring as the eponymous heroine. Years later, a senile, demented WONG, who keeps blabbering about his ‘groundbreaking’ debut, is being taken care of by his grudging son Ho. The film parodies the visual style of the Shaw Brothers martial arts films to tell the story of a contemporary father-and-son conflict and reconciliation. Golden Sword Woman travels in time and between both sides of the silver screen, between the romantic world of swordsmen and the unpromising, secular family life.

Golden Sword Woman

8.0 2022
Memento Stella

Makino Takashi takes us to a place where different rules apply. He overwhelms us with his universe, which is built up of countless images, figurative and non-figurative, accompanied by an equally sophisticated soundtrack. At times very abstract and distant, at others almost palpable and narrative. We naturally seek recognition in the infinite layering of the images, and in so doing compose our own story, based on what we ourselves know of the world, using our personal references to help us. In this way, a work arises unique to every viewer, which continues to reverberate long after we leave the cinema.

Memento Stella

NR 2018
A Thousand Winds

The lives of a generation were changed by a pile of charges and imprisonment. If the young people had known what shape the suffering would take, would they have still tried so bravely to change the world? Hong Kong's social activism resulted in the police arresting 10,279 people. Among these, 2,899 have already gone through or are going through the legal process. Around 80% have been found guilty and sentenced to prison. The documentary A Thousand Winds converts the numbers back into people to show how they are responding to the trial in their youth.

A Thousand Winds

NR N/A
The Unbelievable Channeling The Spirits

Feng Shui master Szeto Fat Ching leads the original cast of 2009's The Unbelievable to explore even more shocking and thrilling paranormal phenomenon in Southeast Asia with The Unbelievable Channeling The Spirits. Going deep into the tribes of Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Malaysia, the crew including Rachel Chan, Uny and Pochacco Lee go face to face with some of the oldest supernatural practices and experience first-hand Southeast Asia's paranormal activities.

The Unbelievable Channeling The Spirits

10.0 2012
Children’s Game #22: Jump Rope

Stark though it is, the roof terrace with its low ochre-red wall and washed turquoise abstract seems the nearest thing to a garden among the forbidding cliffs of mass housing that rear up all around. Like bold tendrils of organic life, three young girls appear with jump ropes and show off some individual fancy licks, before switching to a stately coordination mode. Their bright white ropes make squiggles in the air like waved sparklers at night, while wrists and feet maintain a rock-steady beat. The joy of skilled movement, of pure synchrony, illuminates their faces.

Children’s Game #22: Jump Rope

NR 2022
Time, and Time Again

A girl called Christy is missing. The case haunts Detective Max, time and time again, leaving him with a sense of remorse. Following a trail, Max arrives at an abandoned school where he finds traces of a cult ritual and a murder scene. Suddenly he finds himself in a stylish bar where he sees his former colleague and Christy. Meanwhile the murderer is lurking behind... Will Max find hope and redemption from the dismal past? Shot in black and white, this mysterious thriller employs the stylistic elements of neo-noir and horror to recreate our urban terrors of missing people.

Time, and Time Again

NR 2022
Operation Child Hunt

A hidden gem produced at the height of the Hong Kong left-wing cinema. The Japanese army wants to force resistance leader Cheung (Bow Fong) to appear by capturing his family. Cheung's wife dies and, despite the protection by the nurse Yeung (Chu Hung) and other villagers, Cheung's daughter is captured. In the end Cheung's subordinate Lee Fu (Jiang Han) regroups with the resistance and saves the day, defeating the enemy and rescuing everyone. This film clearly references wartime productions in the mainland of China, with elements such as the Japanese taking hostages, resistance guerilla fighters, and the contrast between ‘heroes' and ‘villains' made obvious through camerawork and make-up designs. Street scenes shot in Macau merge seamlessly with studio scenes to recreate northern Chinese towns. War epics were not a strong suit of Hong Kong cinema. This film takes inspirations from Euro-American spy films and pays attention to character development and the mise-en-scène.

Operation Child Hunt

NR 1967
Like an abortion, for the very first time

The Umbrella Movement was a wave of street protests that took place in Hong Kong from September to December 2014 as a reaction to oppressive practices of the Chinese government against the citizens of Hong Kong dissatisfied with planned changes in the electoral system. In her feature film debut, To Liu captured the citizens of the western part of Kowloon, Mong Kok, whose protests might not have been as visible as those of the leading activists, but were no less important. The documentary rhythmized by opening entries and darkening of the scene, much like the director’s first film, follows two characters, a master and an apprentice.

Like an abortion, for the very first time

NR 2018
Fine Dining (or recipes for a perfect marriage)

Love is patient, love is kind. A couple of lovers got married after years of romantic relationship. Whenever they are confronting the ups and downs of their marriage, they cook for each other. With how much love comes how much hate, this cooking habit reflects their love for each other, but it also reveals the dark side of this relationship. FINE DINING showcases the 3rd, 5th and 7th year of their marriage, with three recipes of their favorite dishes.

Fine Dining (or recipes for a perfect marriage)

3.0 2021
Traces of an Invisible City: Three Notes on Hong Kong

The film presents urban space in Hong Kong as a vivid showcase of the hidden logics of globalization, capitalism and historical changes of today’s world cities. The film contains three chapters that is parallel to but interwoven with each other: global, local and border space. The film examines a series of urban landscapes in Hong Kong to illustrate the tension among their visual existence, function and ownership, and how the city’s public space has been constructed, used, owned and interpreted.

Traces of an Invisible City: Three Notes on Hong Kong

NR 2016
Sweet Lime

Eleven-year-old Amra accompanies her mother, Shirin, to pick up her aunt, Hawra, from the airport. Hawra has just arrived from Pakistan for a visit, traveling alone without her young children for the first time. Pretending to be asleep on the car ride back, Amra eavesdrops on the women's conversation, secretly learning intimate details of her aunt's troubling marriage. Before reaching home, Amra convinces the women to stop at the coast for a picnic. Amra devours in delight the sweet limes brought by Hawra, and after, the women decide to go for a swim in the sea, even though they do not have bathing suits. Amra–too shy to join–watches them from the sand. Her mother's phone incessantly rings, distracting Amra away from the shoreline, leading her to discover tragic news. When the women return from their giddy bathing, Amra must choose whether to be the bearer of the tragedy.

Sweet Lime

NR 2024