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We see the world through a train window in Tra(i)nsient. Anson Mak captures the fleeting scenes that rush by: images of trees, buildings, power lines, rolling hills, and neighbourhoods, from sunrise through daytime to nightfall. Shot on a Super 8 camera, the video has a particularly grainy quality as light fluctuates over the course of a day. For the majority of the nearly twelve-minute piece, we hear the sound of falling rain and the clamouring of train wheels against the tracks; the viewpoint then shifts to a straight shot of Hong Kong, with the soundtrack changing to white noise. In the final moments, the film cuts to silent darkness. (From mplus.org.hk)

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.

Fragmented coastal scenes scattered across the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area: a security guard on duty at a Shenzhen beach, a woman posing for bridal photos along the West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, children playing in the shallows beneath a bridge, the transparent glass interior of the M+ Museum, the rooftop of Sky100, the upper reaches of the Pearl River, and the waterfront of Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong, among others. Most of these filming locations were chosen from lists of photogenic sites popular on Xiaohongshu (RedNotes), i.e. places that have become “internet-famous” through a single viral post, attracting waves of photographers and tourists. Yet the artist deliberately diverges from these original images, turning away from the sharply defined details and edges of these celebrated sites. Instead, the camera retreats into marginalized zones at the limits of visibility, areas suffused with blinding halos of light.

All you see is light, and all you fear is the unknown.

This is the reminiscence of two souls, narrating in memory their own truths and fantasies of their stories together.

Endy Chow unveils his own music galaxy to his fans! The Hong Kong singer-songwriter held his Galactica Concert 2017 for five days in December 2017 and January this year. He kicked off the concert with a prelude called Arrival, then officially started with "Won't Return Home in This Life." During the concert, Endy performed most of his hit plugs including "Underground Street," Children Song, "Invincible" and "Love is Colder than Death." The live version of his acclaimed trilogy – "Sometimes," "Reunion" and "Stardust" – can also be found in this CD set! Endy finally wrapped up the concert with "Rolls Royce," his duet with HOCC, and the solo version of his hit Mu Hei.

A girl explores a beautiful city, seeking the answer to a question she has held in her heart since she was a child.

A rent-boy goes on vacation to a remote Hong Kong island with his bestie to forget his ex-lover, but the trip turns haywire when he meets a mysterious stranger evoking the legendary poet, Wat Yue from 2000 years ago!

In a park, a girl wants to break up with a boy, but things are not that easy... PARK Tetralogy: Autumn is one movement of a four-film cycle. The films are four variations on a single theme. The director, YU Yunsheng, explores the same narrative nucleus through four different seasons and four distinct casts. This is a cinematic experiment on memory, time, and the mutability of human emotions. This is a four-film cycle. Total runtime 332 mins. We recommend viewing sequentially or as individual features.

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.

A teenage girl in Hong Kong meets her online friend and crush for the first time, and comes face to face with her own social awkwardness while preparing for the meeting.

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.

When I first took up this Super 8 camera, I knew I was about to leave my home. Too Long Ago, Not Far, shot between 2019 to 2023, alludes to the Huaying Tongyu [華英通語, meaning: interchangeable expressions between Chinese and English, first published in 1867 in New York], the earliest English textbook for Chinese people that uses Cantonese phonetic notation to teach the pronunciation of English words. This seamless editing mode offers me the base to record everything in the city as notations, things that I want to look at over and over again. Perhaps by the time I go back, nothing changes, everything remains the same. As the Chinese saying goes, horse keeps on running, and people keeps on dancing.

How far would a man go for money, women and power and who would he betray? How much would a woman sacrifice for love? Nine, daughter of a triad boss, travels to Beijing in a bid to win back her boyfriend, Chung, refuting the suspicion that he’s absconded with the gang’s money. With the camera trained on her wide-eyed face, Nine leads Chung on a whirlwind adventure through the capital’s sinister underbelly where their paths cross with those of low-life thugs, each having a role to play in a clever ruse to ferret out a snitch. With 10 million dollars at stake, emotions are running high and tension is taut and each puff of smoke is harrowing.

Adapted from a novel by Edmond Wilson, the story follows two men, a horde of teals, and hundreds of snapping turtles as they collide in an absurd world.

After a row over a TV remote control, Uncle Tung accidentally kills his nephew…?!

Tugging Diary documents a footbridge over a year between August 2019 to January 2021. Due to social unrest and the uncertainty of various immediate happenings, both the internet and physical spaces act as critical communication platforms of its own during this period. As such, information can be circulated in the community more widely and rapidly outside of the existing mainstream media. As time goes by, these materials are continuously altered, some were renewed, while the others were removed, covered with paint, or overlaid by other information.

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.

Li Xiaoxia thought her lover Song Danping had died, and asked her father if she could become a nun. Her father, the warlord Li Xianchen, was outrageous and beat her with a cane. Soon the Japanese invaders were approaching, thus the warlord sent his daughter to Shanghai for shelter. Song jumped into the running river but did not die. After some time he came to Shanghai where he joined the anti-Japanese guerilla headed by Sun Xiaogou. Song killed a number of Chinese traitors and earned himself a name "the midnight man".

All participants must have a valid Hong Kong identity card or must be born in Hong Kong (with a valid birth certificate). While there has been other Miss Hong Kong pageants in prior years producing notable titleholders such as Judy Dann (1951), Virginia June Lee (1953), Michele Mok (1958), Laura da Costa (1967) and Mabel Hawkett (1970), the current annual TVB pageant began in 1973. Apart from the top prize winner, first runner-up and second runner-up prizes, the pageant also has other consolation prizes that vary slightly from year to year. Many Miss Hong Kong contestants have gone on to have movie careers as it is quite typical for the top contestants to garner television contracts from TVB.

A Hong Kong Cantonese film released in September 1948.

In the artist's first solo return to Bangkok, they navigate the unfamiliar within the familiar. Through technological fantasies of an alternate self left unexplored in Hong Kong, they interrogate artificial intelligence in search of answers. By observing and emulating local youth culture, they reflect on lifestyle, belief, and their evolving understanding of identity.

Follows the journey of a spirited Nepali village girl on her pursuit to being a world-recognized mountain runner. Growing up in a remote mountain village in Nepal, Mira always dreamed of being successful in sport despite all the challenges that she & other Nepali girls face. After running away from home, Mira joined the Maoist army until as a young adult, she traveled the long distance to Kathmandu to try her luck. Out of money, she was about to return home to her village, when by chance on a morning run, she meets another runner who tells her about a long running race in the local hills. She wins it and soon begins to realize her tough mountain village upbringing has prepared her perfectly for this sport.

The Screen Shaver starts shaving every inch of his hairy body, but saves the stache.

A vibrant watercolour dance, fireflies glowing in the darkness.

A Trip to There is an experimental video essay from my documentation of my younger days. I rearrange my materials along the timeline and transform the past and unchangeable events into dialogues with new contexts, creating a journey that penetrates spatial and temporal boundaries.

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

Spice Up Your Life is a heartwarming comedy-drama that explores family, misunderstanding, and the small but powerful moments that reconnect people with one another. Through a series of everyday encounters filled with humour and emotional reflection, the film follows characters who struggle with unspoken grievances, generational gaps, and the weight of past decisions. As misunderstandings gradually surface, each character is forced to confront what truly matters — forgiveness, gratitude, and the courage to express love before it is too late. Blending lighthearted comedy with sincere emotional depth, Spice Up Your Life delivers an uplifting cinematic experience that celebrates family bonds and the importance of cherishing the people closest to us.

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.

Law Siufung is a professional bodybuilder, a passionate advocate for queer rights in Hong Kong, and a PhD candidate who has dedicated their life to challenging societal norms and binaries. This documentary follows Siufung's journey as they reflect on their experiences in Hong Kong and embark on a new chapter in the United States, continuing their fight to build a more inclusive and accepting society for all. As a genderfluid individual, poet, and intellectual with a deep interest in Buddhist philosophy, Siufung’s story is one of resilience and defiance. Director Jean-Luc, who has spent 15 years in Asia producing commercials and TV shows for major international clients, uses his expertise to explore the complexities of identity and the ongoing struggle for acceptance in this compelling and deeply personal narrative.

This work explores the notion of differences and the impossibilities of clearly stating the importance of differences, regarding sound and images, visual and audio perception, sexual identity, Cantonese, written Chinese and English languages, representation by mass media and by ourselves, and interpretations of street actions.

Part-Time Moon documents a fantasy of an artificial moon that is created inside the artist’s studio. The film is initiated from glazing over on a filmmaking tool. Compare to the real moon, the part-time moon carries an anthropomorphic character: it moves, changes luminosity and color on its own. The camera chases after this organic moon from far to close. It dances, playing hide-and-seek with the camera. The film takes the apparatus usually behind the camera back to the front of the lens, producing a visual-driven narration which is out of the norm.

Documentary short film capturing a reflection of a grandmother headed towards the end of the autumn years of her life.

Aisha McAdams, a former competitive runner turned photographer, embarks on a journey to document the triumphs and struggles of famed ultra trailrunners, including Jim Walmsley and Eszter Csillag. Traveling to mythical races—the Western States Endurance Run in the mountains of eastern California, the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in the French Alps—the film marvels at athletes who maintain their intensity as they run 100 miles of mountain trails while climbing thousands of vertical feet.

A man with no memory wakes up in the woods, pursued by mysterious forces closing in on him, forcing him to confront a chilling reality he cannot escape.

Filmed in Hong Kong in December 2012 during Connie Talbot's first concert tour in support of her hit album "Beautiful World".

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.

The film portrays the author's fear of how Hong Kong has changed and how she faces her emotions. It feels like the soul is broken into many pieces, but if we survive, depths of night will eventually pass.

After being away from home for quite some time, Wong returns to his old stomping grounds to see some of his friends, only to find that a band of kung fu-trained thugs has a serious bone to pick with him and his companions. When the group tries to attack Wong and his buddies, they quickly learn that they're messing with the wrong man, as Wong, too, is a skilled martial artist. Whose expertise will prevail in this battle for honor?

The region of Danjiangkou Reservoir in Henan is undergoing the migration of 400,000 people to cope with the South-to-North water diversion project. Seventy eight affected fishing households on one of the small islands in the area are told to move onshore, 200 kilometres away from their homes. They protest in vain and fail to get their way, under government pressure. Meanwhile, a thunderstorm hits the island and destroys all their mariculture rafts. The efforts of generations of self-sufficient fishing families are now gone.

Temple Run is an abstract animation about the rural and spiritual heart of Hong Kong. Utilising stop-motion photography, it explores the iconic visual aspects of the city’s temples and nunneries to celebrate Hong Kong’s cultural heritage. Everyday natural and artificial details are made focused, investigating each mundane yet essential building block of Hong Kong.

"sub vid heap" is a visceral and compositional study on domination, shot a year after the birth of a first child. An exhausted ego and a needy id, the sensory and the lingual, desire and duty, horror and humility vie it out in a haunted hall. Captured at Headlands Center for the Arts, screams of a baby are muted out while the process of portraiture claims space for a body craving autonomy. Actions of pushing, vacuuming and rocking conjure the rickety bones of downtrodden ancestors, calling the laboring body from the periphery to the center, moving the rage through the body for joy to inhabit the space it vacates.

In a park, a girl wants to break up with a boy, but things are not that easy... PARK Tetralogy: Spring is one movement of a four-film cycle. The films are four variations on a single theme. The director, YU Yunsheng, explores the same narrative nucleus through four different seasons and four distinct casts. This is a cinematic experiment on memory, time, and the mutability of human emotions. This is a four-film cycle. Total runtime 332 mins. We recommend viewing sequentially or as individual features.

When Ariel was in elementary school, she often lied in her mother's arms and listened to her recounting memories about Ariel. In 2024, at the age of 26, Ariel invited her mother to share her experiences about her pregnancy, but she declined. So Ariel interviewed her close friend and her mother instead. If Everyone is just an observer of memories, what is the meaning of retelling them once again? Are children and their mother bonded by blood, by relationship, or by an invisible gap within the streams of memories?

No one can define what a film is, and film history, theory, and techniques can all be changed.

Set within a surreal modern dystopia, a young man seems to take pride in the sun. What other obligations does he have?

Phone Made Good Film No. 7

Wendy and Jay hunt for relics in the woods and find a skull and mystic tablet. Discovering these somehow releases the ghost Joan from the clutches of the evil Demon King, a transgender demon that enslaves ghosts and forces them to collect human hearts for him before they can reincarnate. The Demon sends his posse of girl ghosts to collect Joan and eliminate the interfering mortals, but is thwarted by the timely intervention of a master Taoist priest and his two disciples.

A unique story about the meaning of language, told in a wordless format. A deaf and blind elderly man visits the vet with his pet dragon Globby. Although they near the end of their lives, love transcends the boundaries of language in their profound relationship between very different beings.