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A concubine and a cousin attempt to poison a rich man's son to gain the inheritance. But he survives and must fight back.

A view through cracks between fish markets and high-rise buildings; urban imagery of Hong Kong and the indulgence of domestic life. Hong Kong's hyperactive fish market in overwhelming colors.

"Blended Vision" is a duo-screen video. The screen on the left shows a video about Lau's experience of accompanying his father during eye surgery. As the father's vision gradually becomes disabled, he begins to rely on his daughter's eyes to see the world, and the roles of caregiver and caretaker are reversed. In the series of events from the discovery of the disease to examination, surgery, and recovery, the emotional changes between father and daughter constantly overlap and stagger, and are connected by an invisible line. The video on the right, Lau uses a camera lens to imitate the blurred vision from the eyes of her father, and returns to the places he passes by every day, the park near their home, the same teahouse, the same bus route, the same way home... to reproduce those things that are seen repeatedly in the scenery.

A female ghost who falls in love with a man and eventually gets married.

A collection of flip books, created in collaboration with a group of students at a workshop at the Single Frame Animation Centre.

A Canadian teacher in China, juggling two relationships, becomes entangled with a pair of small-time crooks as the consequences of his choices begin to close in on him.

She is a Hong Kong journalist, and he is a national security personnel from China. They met each other while traveling in North Korea and later hung out to see a play together in Shanghai. In 2019, they lost contact. Five years later, they reunite when he is reassigned to Hong Kong. Is she still holding a grudge, or is water under the bridge now?

In late summer 2016, Aaron Kwok lit up the stage of the Hong Kong Coliseum with his de Aa Kode World Tour Live in Hong Kong. The Cantopop king kicked off the tour with 15 shows in Hong Kong, delivering dynamic and stunning performances of theme song "Dancing Fighter" as well as his all-time hits including "Wild City," "Give You Never Ending Love," "Password in The Wind," and "Love's Call."

Hong Kong horror film

A young girl, just released from a reform centre, finds nowhere to go.

Bad Acid tells a blood-soaked and violent story. It begins when a group of young people, while going upstairs, encounter a grotesque, deformed man. Acting on impulse, they attack him, unaware that their actions will trigger a terrifying chain of events. The deformed man seeks revenge, hunting them down one by one with brutal and imaginative methods.

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.

People leave, taking much with them and leaving much behind. The poet Meng Lang passed away from illness in December 2018. He was forced into exile by political oppression in Shanghai, fled to the United States, then arrived in Hong Kong, and finally chose to settle in Taiwan. Throughout his life, Meng Lang pursued freedom with the will of a poet and lived passionately. He opposed tyranny through his actions and celebrated the power of literature through his poetry. His life was a journey of wandering and migration, and along the way, those he met and came to like were mostly poets. His wife, friends, and comrades discussed poetry and politics with him, and all felt the warmth and kindness he brought to his interactions. In a noisy era, everyone is hurried along by fate. At some moment, with deep reluctance, everyone bid farewell to Meng Lang and set out again on their journeys.

A music video for a Hong Kong based pop song singer Juno Mak.

The Occupy Central movement called for civil disobedience in the middle of Hong Kong’s financial district, in pursuit of democratic elections. The movement attracted many sympathetic students and citizens, and became known around the world as the “Umbrella Revolution” in 2014. This film closely follows the action on the ground: debates within the movement, street speeches, the unofficial referendum which was held as part of the campaign, and the student-led protests at the Central Government Office. It examines the tumultuous thoughts and feelings of seven activists who were there at the heart of the struggle.

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.

They do everything together: they read poetries, have breakfast, see friends, argue with each other, comfort each other, share their childhood and past memories. With imagination, they introspect in solitude and rest in intimacy. At the beginning of twenty years of the 21st century, the world seemed to be in a state of chaos and disorder, with individuals slipping into depression and confusion. The middle-aged intellectual couple engage in one 'long talk' and try their best to express with words, although they might step into a greater unknown. However, expression and communication, imagination and poetry, are already the basis for something.

"War of Perception" by Bo Choy meditates on Hong Kong life encompassing belief, family heritage and Western influence. A costumed spirit performs with mirrors, in addition to street musicians and dancing protestors. A sad, sombre tinge pervades their making of spectacle.

Miller Fisher amalgamates the distorted visual, physical and existential experience of an autoimmune disorder by the same name, with the aesthetics and vernacular of the animated GIF.

Ting's hometown was far away, but now she had made her home on Nam Kok Road (meaning "The Southern End") in Kowloon City. Ting wanted to go around and know the area. The various trivial things she saw on the streets invoked many inner thoughts and monologues in her. When the night came, she wrote down “words about staying”. While she was wandering on the street, she walked past countless walls of silence where time had left marks on.

Hyacinthine Scar condenses the undigested emotions in me while traveling from Hong Kong to my brother’s wedding in Guam. Presences and gazes of all sorts, to look and to be looked at, repetitive camera work of the hired videographers, the vow that is rehearsed over and over again by the priest, all the uncontrollable clickings of the shutter from all us (including myself), and the endless sightings of different sides of the fragmented Western Pacific. The many spots I visited appear as though they belong to passersby. They are as real as they are dreamy.

An addicted video gamer discovers something shocking about himself.

Ngau Tau Kok Estate is one of the oldest and largest public housing projects in Hong Kong. Most of the residents are either elderly and live alone, or working class families. Since 2001, after the government announced its plan to redevelop the area, residents have been gradually relocated to new housing estates. Following two social workers who work with the residents as they deal with the relocation, the film offers is a glimpse of the lives of old people. It is a group portrait of our parents and grandparents.

Election is about the Legislative Council Election in 2004, focused on three geographical constituencies: Hong Kong Island, Kowloon East and the New Territories East. The film follows various activities, from the submission of candidacy, pledge ceremonies, interviews with candidates to lobbying, debate at forums, voting and vote counting, etc. The film reflects the problems Hong Kong faces on the road to democracy and different facets of Hong Kong politics.

Hong Kong's massive and unprecedented public protests and demonstrations in early July 2003 are documented in July. The film shows individual and mass reactions to the proposed national security legislation. It preserves the speeches, songs, chants, posters, and banners, as well as the atmosphere, for those who were there, and introduces them to those who were not. As such, July is a record of events that could not occur anywhere else in China.

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.

While his two friends have already mapped their respective futures, Poon simply wants to get a good score in his second attempt at the HKCEE and stay in his own school. However, Poon gets another disappointing score, and his future is suddenly up in the air. Every year, some celebrate the fruits of their labor, while others dash around the city for their last hope at higher education. Poon may just be one of the latter, but he is also one of us, struggling to rise from academic mediocrity for a better life.

A room, rented different love men and women, in the most basic needs of life to eat and drink, love in the human nature will be what?

Aloneness is not the same as being lonely. Lying beneath the white sheets, the 11 holds the tale of forbidden unconditional love in dreams and in reality. The lovers whisper words of love as conversations continue to flow and laughter fills the ward.

When Zhou Mu encounters Yi Ran and his so-called 'girlfriend' meeting, feelings flare up and Zhou Mu is determined to make his way back into Yi Ran's life.

Seth is a scare actor at a haunted house he designed, but he is deeply dissatisfied with his work and finds himself deficient as an artist. One day, he realizes that his painter friend, Bek, is in love with him, only for Bek to die in a horrible freak accident during Seth’s show. Riddled with guilt, Seth finds Bek half-alive in his studio without the memory of dying… A film about how love can make anything art.

Two young men who try to steal the body of a rich man, who has no respect for others, with the intention of flogging the corpse for public consumption. Later, they realize that the coffin contains a large amount of treasure and decide to distribute it to the poor.

In the wake of cataclysmic regional change in the artist's homeland of Hong Kong, Simon Liu’s Cinema-Strobo-Scopic film features a laborious sequence of analogue darkroom practices and dense shrouds of video processing techniques which actively work to both conceal and reappraise approaches to personal expression in the face of censorship. Times ahead and behind collide - a new linearity is in need of; the glittering lore of the way things were, generations lost to resolution errors. Sifting through new realities of misinformation, digital consciousness, and cultural disappearance, "Single File" seeks new lexicons of disobedience through formal experimentation.

Twelve-year-old scuba diver Ema sets out on a quest to find out why corals around the globe are dying, but are somehow more resilient in Hong Kong.

Breaking 60: Challenging the Impossible is a documentary about the Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge, a Fat Ass-style trail running event where there are no race fees, no prizes, no medals, no pats on the back for being super awesome. Just a bunch of slightly left field individuals trying to run all four of Hong Kong’s ultra trails ‐ totaling 298km ‐ non stop, unsupported and in less than 60 hours. Each year a small group of runners are hand selected and Breaking 60 explores the personal challenges facing 4 of them. Since its inception, no one has ever gone sub 60.

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.

A film sixteen thousand splices in the making. E-Ticket is a frantic (re)cataloguing of a personal archive and an opportunity for rebirth to forgotten images. 35mm photographs and moving pictures are obsessively cut apart, reshuffled then tape spliced together inch by inch in rigid increments. My photographs may have all been cut up and mixed around, but at least they’re all in one place now. A retelling of Dante's Inferno for the streaming age; a freedom of movement reserved for the modern cloud.

The Ghost Festival takes place during the seventh lunar month. The gates of hell are opened to free the hungry ghosts who wander the world seeking food. During this month, Chinese pay tribute to their ancestors and offer food to the deceased to appease them and ward off bad luck. In Hong Kong, besides staging ceremonies to honor the dead, many Taoist organizations also give away rice to the elderly and the poor. The rice distribution depicted in this film was one of the largest events, and attracted over eight thousand people. The event was scheduled to last from nine in the morning to six in the evening. In order to ensure a place in the line, most of the participants arrived before dawn.

The story follows a gray bear who ventures from the forest searching for a more fulfilling life in the city. She makes a concerted effort to imitate human actions and conceal her true self, worried about being uncovered. One day, a small bee flies into her house, unknowingly marking the beginning of her journey to escape her struggles.

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.

May Fung's 1989 film Thought IV: The Edge of the World is a collage that responds to the ever-changing world beyond Hong Kong. It features highway shots that recall the exterior views from the taxi in Routine, war reportage, and images of coastal landscapes and stretching bodies. The film represents another generation's aesthetics of self-expression.

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.

Re-think Aloud - A Documentary on “Contemporary Writing for Theatre (2012-2023)

Responding to a curated cocktail of positive, harmonious keywords ("pacifism," "empathy," "sisterhood," etc.), Emily Dickinson's phrase "I many times thought Peace had come," and assorted other artistic input, this film is entirely co-created with artificial intelligence.

In a person’s life, what is most moving is often the indescribable feeling in one’s heart. Beyond has moved many people. More than a decade has passed, and people have changed, but fans still remember Beyond’s works. There is no gorgeous packaging or pretentious attitude, but every song can touch people’s hearts.

COPYSHOP accompanies Berlin-Köpenick rapper Romano on a journey of discovery to Hong Kong, where he recalls his time working in a copy shop in his home town. It’s all about megacities, stereotypes, creative spaces, rap music, Romano’s copy shop biography and the copy of the copy of the copy...