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documentary about teenager life in 1980's Hong Kong

A woman comes back to Hong Kong and helps the police investigating the murder of her twin sister, with whom she had a telepathic link.

"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.

1954 / Shadows of Love / Wong Ho / Hai Yen Film Co.

Hong Kong horror movie from 1945.

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

A disturbing story set in the near future. People are holed up in their small dwellings and live in a virtual world. Everyone films and streams various videos. They don’t have a clue that they’re not free until one of them goes outside. But the discovery of the outer reality is something their virtual masters aren’t happy to see.

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One fateful morning, a taotie appeared on my doorstep, and my peaceful life was never the same again. I never imagined that unraveling the mystery of my grandfather and the taoties would uncover a secret that would change my worldview forever.

Safety and Battle Tips for Taxi Drivers

Two Women is a Historical Drama starring Rachel Lee and Wu Ma.

Integrating sand animation and traditional cel animation, this short film is a poetic response to the soaring suicide rate in a concrete jungle.

A father and a mother play a cruel game of hide-and-seek with their son, who does not enjoy it as much as his parents.

A refined remake of the original Monster Land.

A group of little monsters fight for a coin in a dark corner on a bookshelf.

A fantasy short film about robots in the future world.

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

A pair of brother and sister spends a night without adult supervision. All is possible under the blue moon.

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

This shocking debut film engages from the crazy opening scene: a maze of masks, despair, disgrace, and colours. Decoding all clever meanings in this voyage through memories and hallucinations of countless war crimes is a true head-scratcher. There are hints of occupations, guerilla fights, massacres, famines, rapes, and other atrocities.

The directors majored in MA Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong. When directing TAIKWUN (2022), they used the photos taken in Tai Kwun as the material for animation creation. They are committed to exploring different animation possibilities from ordinary materials and textures, and at the same time, they also use animation to interpret and explore different urban characteristics. For the materials they have, they carry out creative interpretations on the basis of taking care of the historical significance of the materials themselves.

10957 Moons and 30 Elliptical Years is an eight-part collage of events, objects, thoughts, and sensations drawn from Lai’s personal moving image archive, assembled between 1991 and 2021. Describing herself as a modern-day ‘flâneuse’, Lai interweaves diaristic video fragments, with found footage from film and television, as well as exhibition and performance documentation.

No one knows the slope of a refuse chute, the angle a worker bends to pick up a garbage bag. No one heard the noise from the refuse room, is it the glass broken or the worker fallen? 10 years of collecting the waste, being disrespected, having a sore waist and an aching back. It is a degrading job, but I will still go on.

I dreamt that a person was killed. When I woke up, the murder case really happened in reality. What terrified me was that the murderer in the dream has found me. I had to stay awake and not to be caught by him.

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.

Yan Yan wishes to bring her girlfriend home during the Lunar New Year, causing shame and anger in her father. Rosario, a migrant from the Philippines, tries to intervene into the heated argument on the street. It turns out to be a performance by an invisible theatre troupe and Yan Yan invites Rosario to join their group. During the workshops, Rosario recalls past moments with Lila, her ex-lover back in the Philippines. That night she receives a package from Lila, and reconnects with feelings long suppressed. Director Jamie CHI draws from her own experience and brings back her teammates from the invisible theatre project in this short film.

In the closing years of the Yuan Dynasty in China, the courts were corrupted, natural disasters were rampant, there were uprising everywhere. The people live in fear. Many swordsmen and kung fu masters voiced their complaints, but they were not united. Rather, they fought for supremacy by trying to be the sole owner of the Dragonslayer Sword. Steven and Susan were from two different kung fu clans. Fate brought them together amidst chaos and mayhem for the Dragonslayer Sword. One driven by love, the other by doing the right thing, the two fought against all odds to live a normal life. Reality dealt them a hand that results in bloodshed and tragedy. It was up to their son Woody to discover the secret of the Sword...

It is a 2D experimental animation which is accompanied by the music, “Pulse At The Centre Of Being” composed by Max Cooper. Beautiful things happened inside a human through different combinations of flowers, organs and body parts.

A young girl Pui and her father live together leaning on each other for support, but they still feel lonely and insecure. At the same time, the young girl is haunted by the death of her mother. After small accidents, she magically starts to walks into an Another World over and over again, where memories and realities intertwined, but she has no idea whether it’s a dreamworld, or a ghost land.

A Hong Kong short film

End Time and The Trajectories of Ancestors (2022) is a video (machinima) essay on the historical fragments of Montana and Native American history. Going deep into the American soil conveyed in the video game Far Car 5 (2018), the work manifests the juxtaposition between religious survivalism on the nuclear threat and End Time, the digital landscape and archive of Montana, and the historical records and testimonies of Native American’s history and movement. This intersection can be conceived as a detour in thinking and questioning the universal issues on colonization, land, race, violence and the appropriation of culture and history in the video game.

Su shot The Magnificent Levitation Act of Lauren O at Hong Kong’s Shaw Studios. She came up with the character after she came across American science fiction writer Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, which followed protagonist Lauren Oya Olamina on a quest for freedom. Su’s character belongs to a fictional activist-anarchist group called Laden Raven which was founded in the 1930s. Composed of circus performers—often viewed as social outcasts—and other marginalised members of society, the group attempts to change the world as did the 60s counterculture movement.

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.

Diane want to get rid of her relationship with Anthony, however her flatmate Joan doesn’t agree with her.

Costa Rica, New Zealand, Hong Kong,Hawaii. Through the testimonies of 12 women, the issues of marriage, traditional conventions, being attracted to women and having children are addressed. How to break with traditional patterns, how to accept one's feelings of love when they are are directed towards a person of the same sex? So many serious subjects approached here with lightness. The documentary walks us and takes us towards these women who inevitably speak a little about about us.

The story of a female director who spends an hallucinatory night in quarantine in a hotel. She recalls her former lover and creative partner Liling, out of nowhere. And then, she is surprisedto find That Liling is in front in her, they pour out their hearts and past experiences, once the story comes into their view. The next morning, the hotel reception calls her.

An addicted video gamer discovers something shocking about himself.

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.

A perfect symmetry of geometric shapes and symbols set to the lush electronic sounds of Lux Prima.

That night, a lady met a lovely beast, a gigantic slimy cheesy one.

In Hong Kong, a stranger wanders and films frantically monologuing next to her camera. Through the windows of the buildings she penetrates the intimacy of the flats, in the streets she lingers over unknown faces, swallowed by the city she seeks to record what exceeds her. It’s after founding a kaleidoscope on the ground that she meets the man with tattoos - he is haunted by a fight.

A father has been fighting for the rights of his daughter since she consumed tainted milk powder, yet fails to be understood. With a focus on the connection between father and daughter, the director returns to her own family, discussing love and growth. All of these efforts started with an experience dated back to her childhood.

A two-channel video installation that uses the metaphor of birth to depict the process immigration (emigration): a daunting and disorienting experience that is nonetheless imbued with hope. Combining footage shot by the artist with his delightful animation work, the synchronized dual-channel videos are connected through a voiceover. The result is a subtle depiction of key junctures in human life.

Deranged mind Joe Choi gives us a blood red comedy for the stoner in all of us! Set up in the vein of Low Budget Pictures or a Troma flick this SOV trashterpiece delivers the laughs and the bloodshed! No more shitty shark movies, it's time to make a good one!

"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.