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Follows the story of a handicapped street musician, Maurice Chan, as he explains what life is like for him in Hong Kong. In the process we go on a journey back in time to the Walled City of Kowloon. Once dubbed the 'sleaziest' place in Hong Kong, it was an island of Chinese sovereignty within the British colony. As a result of a secret political compromise between the Chinese and British Governments the Walled City was destroyed in 1992. This decision resulted in the displacement of the Walled City's 40,000 residents. The documentary gives the story of modern day Hong Kong from a personal viewpoint and shows historical links to a place the authorities preferred to forget.

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...

Continuing adventures of Huang Fei-hong as he becomes as living legend.

After the 2014 Umbrella Movement, Hong Kong Democrats divided into two groups with differing beliefs and protest methods. ‘Community March’ members, often labelled as leftards, focus on fearless community work and caring for minorities, despite not joining frontline protests. Senior journalists Lo King Wah and Kong King Chu highlight their dedication to community service and democratic ideals, showing how they persist in voicing concerns and promoting democracy despite political repression.

One ordinary Sunday, the husband woke up from sleep, had lunch with his wife at noon, the wife went out in the afternoon, the husband fell asleep again, a director came to see him... In this ordinary day, the husband, wife, and director look like they care about and communicate with each other, but they are actually talking to themselves, and the most important thing is the end, the wife asks the husband to get up to eat. So is this husband's experience a dream or a reality?

Part two of the films based on Louis Cha's novel "Sword Stained with Royal Blood."

A little girl called Beibei goes to the seaside every day to gaze into the boundless sea, hoping to one day see her father return. Everything changes when she finds a seashell with a message from him engraved on it. From then on, she starts a journey with her dad from the sea to the universe.

Sounds turn into abstract images creating a tightly connected audiovisual experience.

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.

30 years after 1989, how do witnesses to the June 4th Tiananmen massacre come to terms with their own memories, and how do their memories affect their lives today? At the same time, Hong Kong gradually confronts the explosion of the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement.

Wing, a wanderer, returns to Hong Kong to meet Ryan, the owner of the gallery, and they reminisce about the past. Wing is trying to earn a living by painting oil paintings, and once he tries to sell his paintings in Ryan's gallery, but Ryan mistakes him for a delivery boy. When he finds out that Ryan has been helping him, he leaves in a huff. He and Ryan remain friendly in Hong Kong, in keeping with the modern attitude of a casual relationship between a man and a woman.

A young woman reminisces on the life of her mother years after her untimely death. “Searching for Her,” is an intimate exploration, told through old photographs and home videos, of a daughter coming to terms with a person she hardly knew. “For some reason I forgot you had emotions,” says the daughter, filmmaker Natalie A. Chao, in a present day hypothetical letter to her mother, “your own style, friends, a love life.” Her reflections form a moving tribute, a poetic re-evaluation of family history, memories, culture, love.

After a night of planning and mourning, a storm is brewing at early hours of 1 July, 2019. In face of the absurdity of the government's indoor flag ceremony, protesters question the usefulness of peaceful protest and hope to storm the Legislative Council Complex as a last-ditch effort to ignite change in the movement. As they confront pro-democracy councillors outside the complex, their pent-up anger and despair explode.

The messaging. The infinite social media scrolling. People are multitasking between games and the stock market, watching movies whilst skipping continuously 15 seconds ahead — all of this while even crossing the street.

A woman picks up and starts reading the book The Hero in History: A Study in Limitation and Possibility by Sidney HOOK. Her image juxtaposes with found footage of the 1967 riots showing thousands demonstrating on the streets as if it was a carnival. Truthfulness and limitations of recorded images are brought into discussion.

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.

Once a military outpost, Mount Davis has been transformed into a vibrant learning center: the University of Chicago’s Hong Kong campus, designed to promote public education about cultural heritage. But beneath its modern facade lies a history of conflict and resilience. In this fascinating documentary, former detainees from the 1967 riots share haunting memories of their imprisonment, while historians and architects work to preserve the site's legacy.

A refined remake of the original Monster Land.

Following a morphing blob of flesh through an artificial landscape of urban textures we take part in a process of creation and adaption. From a simple square to increasingly complex moving patterns, the organic seems to get lost in the artificial which begins to dominate rhythm and structure of the world.

June 2019 is a month of deep gloom as protestors flood the streets and voice out against the extradition bill. Chu Hoi Ying, who is from Hong Kong, collaborates with Argentinian director Tomas Zabala as Chu visits her childhood memories and looks for a comfortable HABITAT, in more ways than one.

A speculative fiction about the invented city of Chin Kong; which is the imagination of Hong Kong in its dystopic future through the lens of political pessimism.

In the year 2135, embryonic stem cells can become anything we desire. Three lives intersect in a clinic where care and interconnectedness shape healing: a healer honouring ancestral practice with biotech, a grieving man growing furniture from his late lover’s cells, and a 79-year-old woman pursuing pregnancy through her own lab-grown gametes. But when cellular memories can also be rewritten, what futures could arise?

CAT III lost movie

Sometimes, we may hear some inner whisper in our mind or the direct sense to tell us what to do. Maybe it is a reminder of our future. We always look back on our life, asking what if I did not make that decision? What would happen? The protagonist in the play, Elder Hana, finds that she has the opportunity to return to her own consciousness in the past. She wants to change her decision. That made her realise that the personality shaped by herself is also lovely. The decision made in the past is not a concern anymore.

Moving from planetary surfaces to deep space, mysterious shapes and spheres guide exploration and slowly return to the surface.

Drawing inspiration from the sounds, instruments, style, texture, mixing and record back spinning of 1960s pop music, modern sampling methods is used to re-present, synthesize and “musicify” the content of Ya Si’s poems. It also references the line from Bob Dylan’s 1960s classic Blowin’ In The Wind, “The answer is blowin’ in the wind”, to correspond to the line in Ya Si’s poem that pays tribute to the song. This is recited in a recording by singer-songwriter Jing Wong. 借鑒六十年代流行音樂的聲音、樂器、質感、混音特色、倒播處理等，再嘗試以現今電子音樂拼貼方法重新展現、組合，並「音樂化」也斯在詩中提到的內容，當中亦借用了卜戴倫在六十年代紅極一時的經典歌曲《Blowin’ In The Wind》的一句歌詞「The answer is blowin’ in the wind」回應和延伸也斯詩中的「答案啊，我的朋友是在風中飄動」，由同樣是唱作人的本地創作歌手黃靖錄音朗讀。

30-year-old Hei grew up in Sha Tin. As he aimlessly runs every day to escape from his broke family, he realises his true pursuit is in the pure speed of a horse.

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?

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.

A young man fails to attend his expat father's funeral in Hong Kong.

This experimental film delves into the century-old history of Hong Kong’s iconic tram system. Through a nonlinear collage of industrial materials — wood, concrete and steel — the film reconstructs the tram as a contested vessel of cultural identity, embodying the tensions and transformations of urban modernity.

Four up-and-coming Hong Kong directors - Ren Xia, Chan Kin Long, Chan Hau Chun, and Wan King Fai - collaborate on a film, but their cannabis-fueled creative process takes a dark turn.

Perhaps you may ask, when is 35th May? On 4th June 1989, the Tiananmen Massacre took place in Beijing. History was changed on that fateful day and from that date onward, 4th June was erased in China.

Hong Kong horror film.

Spanning film photographs, scanned images of pages and book covers, 3D animation, and 2D animation, Hangnail critically explores the fetishisation and romanticisation of feminine death, delving deep into the complex legacy of fictional heroines across various art forms and within the digital realm.

While living in Hong Kong in 2023, Chan Nim mysteriously loses her ability to speak. With her camera and diary, she silently explores Hong Kong's past, present, and uncertain future.

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)

Newly arrived in Hong Kong, a woman sends letters back to her friend on the Mainland.

Throughout the recent months of protests against the extradition law amendment bill, film crews have been following and filming various officers who were playing key roles in different Police operations, in order to record on film the adversities they faced when executing their duties as well as their emotional journeys along the way. In the documentary, these officers working in different posts and different levels in the Force also provide moving personal accounts of what they and their families have been through during these challenging times. Filming of the documentary started when a riot started in Admiralty on the evening of August 31, 2019, and concluded on on December 24, 2019. Over a span of four months, the most dangerous , divisive and chaotic period in Hong Kong was captured.

A short animated film adapted from Nagashima Shinji’s manga. Senpei has an unforgettable encounter on the first day of his summer vacation.

Adapted from Ishinomori Shotaro’s manga, a young cartoonist encounters a lonely girl on a spaceship as they traverse between two worlds.

A stop motion animation film created using fabric patterns collected from Sham Shui Po District in Hong Kong. With lots of vibrant colors and different shape patterns, Fab-rics delivers the audience a visually pleasing experience by changing the fabric’s pattern according to the soundtrack created.

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.

Veronica, a superstar canton-pop female singer, is facing her career downturn.She got insomnia as she is always anxious about her career will be replaced by someone from the north. A mysterious female figure named Vanda emerged, who is trying her best to be the substitution of Veronica.

On what seemed like a typical day in a turbulent time for Hong Kong, Vivian will slowly lose everyone around her.

A man and a women separately remember their childhoods.

A love story about a man-woman encounter in Australia

Prehistoric men compete in a downhill race.

The timeline and vertical aspect ratio of social media set the formal parameters for Tiffany Sia’s essay film, which follows the image trail of a single event in Hong Kong from the 2019 protests. Reckoning with this event, a relentless voiceover reframes archival media salvaged in the midst of disappearance and erasure, drawing upon a traumatic media memory, summoning ghosts and occult forces alongside disinformation and rumor.