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The girl’s hair is tied in braids by her mother every morning. The rigorous woman believes the tighter the braids are, the tighter the mother-daughter bond is. So, the little girl lives with the achy, throbbing feeling from her scalp and tries to understand this painful love. Actually, there is a little fantasy in her mind which is never mentioned or carried out, until an accident happens…
In the aftermath of some catastrophic event, a group of six men and women are all that survive. Each must find their soul mate within the group to ensure the continuance of the species.
A single shot, taken during a confrontation between police and demonstrators in Hong Kong's Sham Shui Po neighbourhood, transforms a street confrontation into something transcendently beautiful. The voice of Louis Armstrong adds a level of almost unbearable irony.
A stunning piece of imagined night cartography rendered in an intricately crafted digital filigree.
Hong Kong, 1997. Two young brothers, Chi and Shing, are learning to cope with life, specifically life with a father who has become emotionally detatched ever since their mother's departure from the family and her subsequent emigration to San Francisco to seek a new life for herself and a future for her boys.
:< A Tinder tragedy. :0 An unexpected child. ;( A journey finding my root of shame.
Ping opera film.
Daily life living in Hong Kong.
This documentary follows an elderly woman who, after devoting her life to raising children, finally rekindles her passion for Cantonese opera. Once an enthusiastic performer, she stopped performing after the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, she returns to classes not to seek the stage again, but to find joy in learning with fellow seniors. The film captures her quiet persistence and the simple happiness she finds in daily life. “Achievement” here is redefined—not by applause or spotlight, but by the warmth of song and companionship in her twilight years.
7 years after the Handover, 7 Hong Kong filmmakers expressed their love and concern about gay, lesbian and bi-sexual. Let’s talk about love and desire, as well as sex and gender through drama, documentary, experimental short and animation.
This animation is about something different that happened to a sad baker who only baked for money one day. The baker saw a girl who looked hungry and offered her a piece of bread for free. She was delighted and smiled with joy. Later, the baker realized that his bread could help people and that money might not be as important as he thought. From that day on, he began to bake bread for free and give it to people in need. Happiness fills his mind as people smile at his kindness; caring for others heals everyone's hearts.
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.
A girl leaves in terror from a house.
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.
After attending a church gathering in Korea, a Hong Kong couple experienced a suspected possession. They turned to Pastor Li, known for his years of exorcism experience. The crew documented one session and brought in experts to analyze the incident from various angles.
This is a story about facing the challenges of a changing era. In a world where martial arts have lost their value due to the arrival of alien technology, martial artists become marginalized. The protagonist, Blacky, a black cat with a mechanical arm, seeks revenge for his slain master. Determined to confront enemies equipped with alien tech, Blacky uses traditional martial arts. Amidst challenges and obstacles, he strives to find his own worth and redefine the meaning of martial arts in a transforming society.
Five years ago, a group of form-six girls from a local all-girls school made a graduation video together. Now, the director picks up her camera again to document the friendships they shared back then. Can they keep the promise they made - to stay best friends forever?
Six chapters of the film oscillate between what is lost and what is found across the same ancestral plane. There is everything to see yet nothing there, but briefly in transit you might have already experienced all of it, all at once.
Frank Kehl illustrates the vibrancy of the Chiu Chau Ghost Festival in urban Hong Kong, as the city comes alive with vibrant rituals and community events at a time when ghosts and spirits are free to wander the earth.
<(Welcome to) The Planet of Orchids> is a cinematic anthology exploring the fascinating lives of orchids and their intricate relationships with neighbouring species. In this film, orchids are portrayed as indigenous beings who have thrived despite humans' indiscriminate colonization of ecosystems. Orchids take centre stage as protagonists, unfolding their unique or ordinary narratives from a plant-centred viewpoint. As such, the diverse and multidimensional dynamics of the transhuman community, which all ecosystem members belong, are revealed, and human audiences finally encounter 'Planet Orchid'.
documentary about Vietnamese boat people refuged to Hong Kong during the mid 70s to 80s
In a quiet night, a sleepy writer battles against sleepiness and writer’s block.
A musically synchronised film that draws inspiration from the Portuguese word, “verão” (summer). Rising temperatures within a digital domain, yielding errors, crashes, glitches, and malfunctions.
Mosuo, located in South-West China, is the only Matrilineal society in China. The first record of Mosuo culture dates back more than two thousand years. Today, this tribe still retains their unique culture, in which people live with their mothers' families and never marry. Concepts such as 'father', 'husband' and 'wife' have no meaning in Mosuo culture. Men and women may sleep together at night, but during the day they return to their own families. Mosuo culture is one in which men and women live harmoniously, and where there is no difference in status between the genders. Director Chou Wah Shan is a former associate professor at Hong Kong University, whose area of interest is gender and sexuality. He spent more than a year with the Mosuo people, and the result is an intimate portrait of this fascinating tribe.
Chun B, a food delivery boy; Zain, a fashion buyer; Cheng, a high school teacher. They are best friends who met in middle school. After graduation, they lived in a co-rented industrial building in San Po Kong. Two years later, Zain is about to marry his girlfriend and Cheng is going to immigrate with his family. They will all leave Chun B and no longer rent this unit. In this unit, there is a refrigerator that they picked up on the back stairs when they moved in, and it is now broken. After smoking marijuana one night, Chun B insists on getting a funeral for the refrigerator, Zain and Cheng accompany him reluctantly. So they took the refrigerator in the early hours of the morning, looking everywhere for a good place to make a decent funeral...
Abstract 2D hand-drawn animation using jazz music
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.
Emperor Qin ending the Warring States period and unified the country. By using his mysterious technology combing human and machine, people became immortal but at the same time, fully controlled by his dictatorship. After 200 years, a robot find that he has the memory from a high priest who lived during the Warring States period. In order to uncover the truth of his soul and the secret of Qin’s technology, he has to find the train to Miluo River, where his “past life” has drowned himself.
A three minutes, 2D animation film, about the protest in Hong Kong. A group of Hong Kong people protesting against the extradition law amendment bill, concerned the bill will damage Hong Kong’s autonomy.
Young people all over China face pressure to marry and start families early, but the problem is even more acute for gay men and lesbians, given conservative attitudes towards homosexuality. Many homosexuals because of various pressures get forced into marriages of convenience with straight people, or even real marriages. This sort of marriage situation is a form of disloyalty, for many gay people the great institution of marriage has really turned into love's graveyard.
A minimalist study of nature's expiration. The film isolates a butterfly's final moments against the city's mechanical heartbeat. Through high-contrast imaging, it observes the collision between life and industrial entropy.
A cheerful infomercial sells a groundbreaking all-purpose eraser designed to remove stains, mistakes, and perhaps a little too much else.
Ting enjoys the limelight, thrives on the attention and rises to the occasion each time she struts her stuff on the Cantonese opera stage, an amateur passion she pursues with the austere self-discipline and competitiveness of a professional. Her best friend, Yuk, is her polar opposite, a companion who feels more comfortable on the sidelines in a supporting role. When the threat of losing the lead role to Yuk, complicated by an injury, creates a rift between the two friends and sours her relationships with her opera mentor and family, Ting learns to confront her inner demons and swallow her ego to mend broken ties.
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.
Experimenting with looping and repetition, this powerful, short dance film offers a thought-provoking reflection on life as a dance with mortality. Partly filmed in an abandoned village—and threaded with the image of a fish trapped in life and death—the work explores memory, isolation, and the passing of time.
Everyone has a price tag and anything can be bought if you are willing to pay the price. Ngai Chi-sang is an up-and-coming artist whose works fetch increasingly lucrative prices in the art market, but his world turns topsy-turvy when an accident takes away his greatest asset. This comes as devastating news to his patron, Sheung Chi-yau, a speculator willing to risk it all in search of high profits. Believing that his lifeline lies in a groundbreaking surgery, the artist enters into a deal with the patron and a surgeon, setting the stage for an intricate cascade of intrigue, deceit and desire and turning the fortune around for all three players.
From personal experiences to collective memories in society, the film attempts to deconstruct ‘time’ through visual media.
Chinese video on how to feed your pet cats.
As Silili looks for balance, she uses the power of frequency and resonance to begin a magical journey. She dreams of becoming a tree spirit one day. After leaving her mother tree, Silili—just like the other elves—sets out to discover who she wants to be. Along the way, she doesn't realize that her adventure harms a tree, but helps all the plants of an entire island.
Exploring concepts of fluidity and rigidity through monochromatic, crystalline visuals, delving into the emotional turmoil a wanderer has to engage with when grappling with the ideas of going against the flow.
Sham Shui Po in Hong Kong: more than just a bargain hunter's paradise. A trip through street markets, old buildings and traditional signs – in a detail-rich urban labyrinth steeped in history.
Energy is a film about self-healing and the coping of losing a loved one. Told in a non-linear narrative, the main character walks through a world within the vortex caused by the trauma of a loved one's suicide.
One night, by the riverside of Tuen Mun River, two girls on the same way home and lose contact with their friends and family due to phone malfunctions simultaneously. By coincidence, they met together in a familiar yet isolated space. Through this serendipity, their attitudes varied between suspicion, understanding, and appreciation. There appeared to be a vague friendship during this short journey.
The film was adapted from "Lian suo" the novel from the famous collection of short tales "Liao Zhai Zhi Yi" or "Strange tales collection".
No one can define what a film is, and film history, theory, and techniques can all be changed.
A Hong Kong Cantonese film released in September 1951