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Who lost their memory? Why did you forget your story? Where is my hometown? Home Kong is an 8-minute short film comprising only 3 drone shots. A tale of 2 cities. A co-production between Hong Kong and Taiwan.

A visit to the art museum produces lessons aplenty for mind, body and especially all the little souls.

“Umbrellas Move” is a long feature documentary capturing scenes from Hong Kong’s city-wide protest, the occupy movement in 2014. This documentary witnessed a critical page of Hong Kong after transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from Britain to China. Around 1200 thousand people have involved in this longest occupation in the history of Hong Kong in 2014. 79 days of occupation, Hong Kong people are fighting for their rights to vote under a fair election in order to be against the political controls from China.

As a reclusive writer works at home, he notices a mysterious figure watching him from outside his window, only to discover that the stranger is an identical doppelgänger who has come to confront him.

A Hong Kong Cantonese film released in September 1948.

Diane want to get rid of her relationship with Anthony, however her flatmate Joan doesn’t agree with her.

Filmed around March 1938, under the auspices of the China Wartime Film Research Association, but not publicly screened until 1941. Photographs of the Long March are very rare, as are those of its endpoint in Yan'An, the communist base of Northwest China in Shanxi province. Mao ZeDong may be seen along with other Chinese Communist leaders, including Liu Shao Qi, Ding Ling, Luo Rui Jing, and Kang Sheng.

Snuggle explores different generations' views on aging and death through the experiences of three families struggling with elderly caretaking and imminent loss. Commissioned by the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, the moving documentary was shot over two years, bearing witness to the difficult journeys and decisions of life and death confronted by ordinary people. The Lees face multiple tragedies in a short period of time as the patriarch, himself tormented with illness, deals with the grief of losing his daughter and wife. His son hopes that he will soon find peace in heaven. The Chans live in an elderly home and rely on their unmarried middle-aged daughter who has long carried the financial and emotional pressure of caring for them. Lam Siu Ming duly carries out filial responsibilities for the only family he has left, the cancer-stricken mentally disabled mother who abandoned him as a child.

“Elephant in Castle” is created within the context of two strange years, 2019 and 2020. The work expresses a constant change within Florence’s inner world, to express the emotional, aesthetic, and tactile responses that she has to Hong Kong, the city where she grew up. The film is both a reflection on the political and social changes in the city and an attempt to understand the relationship between city, place and the individual.

A dedicated young female martial arts instructor, Ming Yu, who is in search of a true master, has no choice but to dismiss Rufus, a rogue student who doesn't play by the rules. He goes on a drunken rampage on the streets of Hong Kong. Polly, an aspiring artist and language teacher, runs into him and ends up a victim. The experience shatters her confidence, turning her into a hopeless wreck. Encouraged by Kyra, a teenage girl, she reluctantly begins to learn kung fu, training under Ming Yu, who herself hopes to be taught by legendary Wing Chun Grandmaster Wan Kam Leung. Polly's life improves, but learning a few self defense moves somehow isn't enough. Unaware of the connection between her attacker and Ming Yu, Polly sets out to claim back what was stolen from her.

Tsai Chin returned to grace the Hong Kong Coliseum's stage in 2010. The set list this time features a large selection of classic Mandarin oldies from the 1960s, including the concert theme song "A Wonderful Night on the Sea". The veteran Taiwan singer with a voice like velvet also treated her audience to her fan-favorite numbers, including "Your Eyes", "The Forgotten Time", "One Last Night", and "Just Like Your Tenderness" for a total of over 30 songs.

A disturbing story set in the near future. People are holed up in their small dwellings and live in a virtual world. Everyone films and streams various videos. They don’t have a clue that they’re not free until one of them goes outside. But the discovery of the outer reality is something their virtual masters aren’t happy to see.

He is a Primary Four young kid. She is an adult woman. A series of wrong dialing brought the two together in a most fitting way.

Deranged mind Joe Choi gives us a blood red comedy for the stoner in all of us! Set up in the vein of Low Budget Pictures or a Troma flick this SOV trashterpiece delivers the laughs and the bloodshed! No more shitty shark movies, it's time to make a good one!

During his studies in Edinburgh in 2021, filmmaker Fredie Chan experienced a protest by the locals to fight for their housing rights, as developers are discovered to be converting empty lots and unused old buildings into new international students flats, rather than resolving severe housing shortage for the locals. From the perspective of a Hongkonger, who is no stranger to housing problems, the documentary follows a group of local grassroots housing advocates, attempting to investigate the crisis, connecting the dots between global and local. Screened with the director’s previous film Beautiful Life, about an Indonesian girl who left her homeland to work as a domestic helper for a financially unstable grassroot family in Hong Kong.

In the harsh winter of Inner Mongolia, two young men, Aoqi and Chaligan, spend their days trapped in a dim, cramped room. The desolation of their existence drives them to hatch a plan to scrape together money and flee south. Thus begins their journey between frostbitten cities and the vast, unforgiving grasslands of their homeland.

After the anti-express rail protests, Choi Yuen Village’s struggle did not end with the railway project approval. Villagers shifted from fighting demolition to painstakingly relocating and rebuilding their community. In 2011, they planned the new village together—including house design, sewage, and land use—while facing government pressure to move out by November. Road access issues caused additional worries. As demolition began, villagers stood together to protect their homes and demanded time to build before moving. By May 2011, villagers left their longtime homes for makeshift housing on newly bought farmland, continuing their collective effort. Their unity in overcoming countless challenges set an example for other rural communities and shows that real resistance is a long journey requiring ongoing attention.

Living together is hard, let alone developing affections for each other—this adage applies not just a couple but any two persons. Living modestly and alone with assistance from the domestic helper, the wheelchair-bound mother is only looking forward to her son’s visit. She may dotingly reminisce on her son’s childhood, but also formed a new and unspoken bond with her attentive domestic helper. On an eventful day in which the mother prepares a huge dinner for her absent son, the domestic helper is having worries of her own with her gambling husband. Genuine and understated in their emotions, the two protagonists reveal people’s capacity to foster new affections through togetherness.

Having enjoyed huge popularity since his debut in 2007, Pakho Chau finally ascended to Hong Kong's biggest stage in September 2014 with his first concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum. The Colors of Life concerts, held in support of his sophomore album Keep Going, featured guest appearances by divas Joey Yung and Miriam Yeung, as well as captivating performances of Pakho's biggest hits so far, including "Walk Together," "My Manifesto" and "Will to be Free."

A refined remake of the original Monster Land.

Never Rest/Unrest is a hand-held short film by Tiffany Sia about the relentless political actions in Hong Kong, spanning early summer to late 2019. The experimental short is an adaptation of the artist’s practice of scaling oral history, of showing political crisis in Hong Kong as ephemeral stories on Instagram for the past year.

Hong Kong movie

Many things happen under the wall, and many people always talk with the wall just like Charlie Brown. This story is talking about the relationship of the wall, city, memory and history.

Nine philosophical films directed by YU Yunsheng, covering nine themes: epistemology, ethics, economics, metaphysics, social science, natural science, aesthetics... Inspired by Socrates, they explore various problems through the form of dialogue.

A mute young man seeks a new life in the wilderness – with survival a daily struggle. Envisioning himself as a feline, he finds refuge in a blind elderly cat lover's home where he experiences newfound tenderness while momentarily forgetting his human identity.

A man's loyalty to protect his best friend is pushed to its limits when it becomes clear that the criminal, who is looking for him, is not a patient man. Pushed in a corner, he must choose what legacy he wants to leave behind.

Hong Kong veteran dancer Mui Cheuk-yin’s defining solo dance Awakening in a Dream, inspired by Pai Hsien-yung’s 1966 story about Kunqu opera actress Lan Tianyu, spanned three decades of performances. This film captures multiple incarnations of the dance as it is performed, filmed, discussed, and taught.

Armed with only one word - Teset - and fighting for the survival of his test scores, Josh journeys through a twilight world of time travel on a mission to save his grades.

“Defoam” is an animation depicting the main character entering the laundry shop with an impulse to wash the memories away but the act lead them to a void realm where they came to a realisation on the proposition of knowing thyself.

In 2011, Alison Chow participated in the 38th Berlin Marathon. She finished the marathon in 2 hours 49 minutes and 57 seconds, 7 minutes slower than the Olympics entry requirement, thus the name of this documentary, Breaking 7. Alison gave up on her stable teaching job and left her comfort zone at the age of almost 30 just to follow her dream. She went through countless challenges with her coach, good friends and family, and was further inspired in life.

Dark and windy night, the village is haunted, the villagers do not dare to go out, so they invited the magician to catch the ghost, after a day, the night, the magician was eaten by the ghost, leaving a pile of bones and brains, the villagers buried the bones and brains of the magician. The villagers then went back. It was another night, and suddenly, the villagers heard a sound in the earth. One villager went down and was eaten by a ghost. The villagers were sad. Another villager offered himself to learn to become an immortal, the villagers sent him away, and he finally returned to the village after a trek through the mountains, and at night he relied on the spells he had learned to finally destroy the ghost.

This is a set of pre-show animations commissioned by M+ Museum. Inspired by Shek Kip Mei Park, Shatin's cycling track and M+ Museum, this work captures Hong Kong's unique cityscape.

Hong Kong. 2020. A young couple consider their future.

A broken-hearted filmmaker navigates an unfamiliar city, an international art fair and his personal baggage in this intimate, playful and unexpectedly comedic documentary.

A short film made from the documentation of the Zuni Icosahedron performance October/Decameron (1988), with music composed by the pop group Tat Ming Pair. The title of the song, Forbidden Colours 禁色, alludes to homosexuality and other socially taboo relationships. The artist uses the limited video equipment available to them (video-8 camera, television and Betamax player), to experiment with the video signal.

Hoi is a van driver who was a photographer before COVID-19. One day, he received a message from his ex-girlfriend Yin, who had already migrated. They met on the night before she left Hong Kong again. After separating for a few years, the discussion on the long-forgotten love seemed to be the hidden agenda of this night. The two individuals, who had already embarked on completely different journeys in life, had to find a way out for their complicated relationship.

Chiu, a lonely teenager, always feels disconnected from school and home. One day, she comes across a poor stray cat on the street and takes it home for a decent bath. Unfortunately, the cat dies at her home eventually. However, its death unexpectedly brings her the long-awaited attention she has longed for through social media, leaving her feeling content.

Alias: Liang San Poh and Chu Ing Tai Alias: Butterfly Lovers Origin: Hong Kong Language: Teochew

A Guan Gong Temple once occupied this Mongkok site where protestors had just been cleared, and it is now the police’s last line of defense. Hilarity ensues when the filmmaker with a tiny handheld camera appears, is stopped and promptly surrounded by the police.

Global in scope but intimate in spirit, Simon Liu's Fallen Arches is a dizzying assembly of footage shot between the bucolic English countryside and buzzing metropoles New York and Hong Kong.

Greg is addicted to Realm of Conquest, an online fantasy game where he plays an axe wielding barbarian. After battling on-line together for a year, Greg is finally ready to meet his online love in person. He invites her to meet him in real life on a snowy cabin retreat. The problem is, she's not the typical gamer and the results are anything but predictable.

documentary about Vietnamese boat people refuged to Hong Kong during the mid 70s to 80s

Tik, who was born with ADHD, is meticulously cared for by his single mother diagnosed with cancer. This early summer, he finally musters up his courage to step out of the motherly comfort zone and embarks on a journey of growth.

A 1929 Bai Da Film Company production about a trading post in a mountainous region where a young girl attempts to boldly avenge her father.

Director Yau Ching has been conducting media production workshops in juvenile reform and welfare institutes in Hong Kong, Macau and Sapporo, Japan for seven years. With simple video recording techniques, the teenagers make this video letter to talk about love, dream, idols and ups and downs in their lives. Are you sick of those pretending high school dramas? Try to take a look at this sincere documentation of youthhood. To get your taken-for-granted values reflected, to be touched by their truthful reveals without any sensational gimmick, and most importantly, to recall what we went through when we were young, and the ways we could be alive…

Four rooms, four memories. The son steps into a tunnel of recollection during a visit to his long-absent father in prison. Pushing open door after door, he attempts to rediscover the visage of his father within these rooms of memory.

Also known as Hong Kong.

In a desperate act of erasure, he inhales the scent of chocolate paper—a futile ritual to suffocate his memory. Now, the man wanders a labyrinth where waking and dreaming bleed into one question: Can escape exist when every oblivion resurrects him?

A man and his wife moving into an apartment. The wife is disturbed by noise. Later she finds that a family from another world shares the same apartment with them.

He meets her on a journey with no destination. She talks to him in the station; they have fun and stay together in Tokyo, until finally he leaves. But when he thinks back over those days when they were still together, he cannot understand anything she said.

Ming, travels to Hong Kong with her mother to search for her younger brother, Aki, who left home with dreams of becoming a star, only to discover that Aki has become a male prostitute. A-Ming gradually leaves her hometown and becomes close with the people living in the dormitory for staff at an abandoned pharmaceutical factory. Through her interactions with them, she develops an inseparable brotherly bond. However, cold-hearted authorities invade the crumbling temporary paradise built on the ruins.