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One day in the 70s, at the Northern New Territories.  Under the brazing sun, the sound of cicadas intertwined with the rotten smell near the train tracks. The five youngsters could not dismiss the summer blues. They pushed the weeds and stepped on the squirming maggots. They found a decaying dead body trapped under the burning sun. It was oozing a foul stench.  They covered their nose and vomited. Hearing the train whined, the youngsters made up their minds.  Even though they did not have much, they answered the call from the syrup and caffeine. They added colour to their lives with a pinch of salt onto the transparent White Cloud, and they dashed in full strength and leaped up.

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)

"20" is a captivating film that explores the enchanting world of lucid dreams, unraveling tales of hope, love, and despair amidst serene landscapes where shadows dance gracefully. Against the backdrop of insomnia, the film seamlessly blends a sleepless night's story with a multilingual poem.

Siufung attempts to formulate transgender subjectivity by retelling his own gender struggle through poetry and experimental video.

Will I stay or will I leave this room that has felt the best? A brief first-hand account of my darker days in depression, journeying through my tangled thoughts to the exit.

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.

Colors explores the bright and vibrant colors in the Central neighborhood. A glimpse of tension was found between the concrete and lines.

Lumen is a 2D animation that combines digital paint with collage. It is about a defective light bulb being an outcast in the factory. It fails to be fixed so it is discarded into the woods. Other perfect light bulbs are doing their jobs in keeping the city bright, while the "abnormal" and "imperfect" light bulb finds a unique way to shine and its purpose in life.

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.

In 1994, the Hong Kong government suddenly launched an initiative to tear down "rooftop dwellings", even though it had actually accepted their existance for many years. The Housing Authority regarded them as private property and denied owners the opportunity to apply for public housing. Now the government has ordered these 40,000 dwellings to be removed, without offering fair resettlement terms for the residents who had moved in after 1982. Video Power recorded the negotiations before some of these houses were torn down in Mongkok.

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

Death is the end of all humans, but humans can always have choice and all these choices make the meaning of life difference. When Mok was interviewed by Lok, the trenches had been attacked by enemy air force. After surviving in the air raid, the same words changes its meaning. Then two of them choose a different way to die with a different thought.

A man and a women separately remember their childhoods.

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.

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.

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…

Constructed in the form of an eye test/observational diagnosis, Localized Blindness is a semi-autobiographical video that documents several internal monologues: What is left after the passing of an individual? It's between me - an individual who witnessed consecutive passings; another me - an observational being who observed the changes of my accompany and the surrounding; and the other voices, all that echo the distance between the subject and the outsider.

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.

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Ping opera film.

Personal moments are lost in film cuttings or disappear into a coloured fog only to suddenly reappear in a new constellation. This is the visual richness of Highview: four, partially overlapping, 16mm images that fully coalesce into a colourful abstract painting, but also often create a narrative as an exploded montage.

In a zombie world, Boi and Gal awaken into humanity after consuming a mysterious broccoli. As civilisation rises from love and loss, Boi builds technology to "save" Gal from reverting to a zombie state. But as progress accelerates, Gal begins to question whether being human truly means domination.

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.

Four siblings return home from the funeral of their recently deceased mother. At the dinner table, they started talking about inheritance.

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 quiet study of an afternoon. In the soft light of Room 1914, the film captures the gentle rhythms of a family: the hum of a fan, the pouring of water, and the dignity of daily labor. A poetic observation of life's textures.

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.

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.

From South Lake Park to Hongqi Street is a dual-channel essay film based on the inquiry “What is Manchukuo Film Association”, which threads together the spaces, characters and stories related to the Manchukuo Film Association, connected by the artist’s voiceover narration. These stories comprise of a myriad of protagonists, including the Manchukuo actress-singer Li Xianglan (Yoshiko Yamaguchi), personnel working in the Manchukuo film association and Changchun Film Group Corporation, scholars of Sino-Japanese films etc. Through these narratives, the artist attempts to insert answers into the blanks that History indifferently or haphazardly left out.

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

Artist Jolene Mok contrasts the movements of Hong Kong’s sparrows with different forms of local transport in response to Hong Fu’s poem ‘Suppose a Few Birds Fly By'

Abstract 2D hand-drawn animation using jazz music

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.

He is going back to Hong Kong. He wanders in the city, meets with his friends. This is his last day in Taipei, where he has complicated feelings for.

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.

Three men, bound by alcohol and silence, engage in a spiritual stalemate. A single die becomes the sole arbiter of their existence. In this monochrome purgatory, a simple game becomes a visceral struggle against chance and human 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.

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.