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A Guan Gong Temple once occupied this Mongkok site where protestors had just been cleared, and it is now the police’s last line of defense. Hilarity ensues when the filmmaker with a tiny handheld camera appears, is stopped and promptly surrounded by the police.

Global in scope but intimate in spirit, Simon Liu's Fallen Arches is a dizzying assembly of footage shot between the bucolic English countryside and buzzing metropoles New York and Hong Kong.

Greg is addicted to Realm of Conquest, an online fantasy game where he plays an axe wielding barbarian. After battling on-line together for a year, Greg is finally ready to meet his online love in person. He invites her to meet him in real life on a snowy cabin retreat. The problem is, she's not the typical gamer and the results are anything but predictable.

Director Yau Ching has been conducting media production workshops in juvenile reform and welfare institutes in Hong Kong, Macau and Sapporo, Japan for seven years. With simple video recording techniques, the teenagers make this video letter to talk about love, dream, idols and ups and downs in their lives. Are you sick of those pretending high school dramas? Try to take a look at this sincere documentation of youthhood. To get your taken-for-granted values reflected, to be touched by their truthful reveals without any sensational gimmick, and most importantly, to recall what we went through when we were young, and the ways we could be alive…

A Documentary about poet, novelist Leung Ping-kwan (Yesi).

Adam Wan, a homosexual young man who grown up in Hong Kong, trying hard to fight for rights of LGBT community, realising difficulties when achieving such goal, including conflicts with his father. He found frustration with his surroundings, thinking about how everything ended up in current societal situation. He begins to re-examine the society he lives in, his family, himself.

Documentary "The Time of the Individual" records records the 7.7 demonstration at Tsim Sha Tsui. To say NO to the Extradition Bill (which is a mechanism for transferring fugitive to Mainland China), Hong Kong protester flooded the streets of Tsim Sha Tsui on July 7 2019. Youngsters use their “own ways” to delivery to mainland travelers the demand of democracy. This shows another peaceful side of the protest as not shown on traditional medias.

Every three months, a Chinese single mother, Xue takes a 10-hour-journey from Hong Kong to her hometown in Fujian, China with one hand dragging her heavy luggage and another hand holding her child. She has to extend her visiting visa to stay with her family, which migrated to Hong Kong when she was 8. In 1980s, the Chinese local government would let the family migrate except one child, so they would send money back. The tragic starts from here.

Umbrella Revolution: History as Mirror Reflection" is a 100% crowd-sourced documentary using materials from 100+ content creators to tell the story of the 2015 Hong Kong 79-day mass protest occupy movement (coined by international media as Umbrella Revolution) as the people on the ground saw the massive street protest.

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.

The Screen Shaver starts shaving every inch of his hairy body, but saves the stache.

Documentary short film capturing a reflection of a grandmother headed towards the end of the autumn years of her life.

A girl explores a beautiful city, seeking the answer to a question she has held in her heart since she was a child.

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.

Impressions of Hong Kong and Tokyo by day and night shot entirely with a 35mm still camera. Star Ferry is structured between moments of stasis and frenetic movement, drawing out tensions between abrupt passages forward past neon signs and LED advertisements to quiet observations of personal rituals.

The essence of "The Pearl of Tailorbird" lies in the fortuitous poetry generated through the process of multiple translations – avian to human, phonetic to semantic, textual to visual – in which the latent porosity of language helps give birth to multi-layered resonances. For Hayama, this kind of whimsical linguistic deconstruction underscores the central role of language in the process of anthropocentric world-building – and offers a method for transforming hegemonic modes of knowing into ones perhaps more sensitively attuned to our own origins in the natural world. Coaxing a depth of associative meaning from the rhythmic interplay of sound, text, and imagery, The Pearl of Tailorbird perhaps most resembles lyric poetry – or a hermeneutic puzzle – given spatial form. (www.emptygallery.com)

Through monologue, Talia describes her chronic insomnia. She does not know its cause and spends many painful nights awake. When Talia meets Ah Gum, a goldfish who lives in her eye bags, they develop an interesting relationship.

The homeless are not without "homes," but they lack the rights to protect their most basic human dignity and are arbitrarily evicted. The protagonist, Granny Lai Yuen-King, was a rare elderly scavenger among them who possessed a beautiful soul but ultimately died without dignity on the streets. This short film was dedicated to all the homeless.

The film portrays 13 female villagers and students engaged in anti-development movement in 2010 and 2011 to recount a beautiful story of transformation, solidarity, and courage.

The region of Danjiangkou Reservoir in Henan is undergoing the migration of 400,000 people to cope with the South-to-North water diversion project. Seventy eight affected fishing households on one of the small islands in the area are told to move onshore, 200 kilometres away from their homes. They protest in vain and fail to get their way, under government pressure. Meanwhile, a thunderstorm hits the island and destroys all their mariculture rafts. The efforts of generations of self-sufficient fishing families are now gone.

Filmed in Hong Kong in December 2012 during Connie Talbot's first concert tour in support of her hit album "Beautiful World".

Left in the village by parents who have emigrated for work, a young girl dreams of becoming a dancer and escaping rural village life. Her grandfather forces her to sign up for swimming lessons instead of ballet class where she uses buoyancy of the pool to help her practice ballet positions. When she realizes her skills at full gravity are not what she imagined, her relatives cobble together a crude space for her to practice.

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.

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.

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.

We can see things differently when we see things from different angles.

Harmony (n.) a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts; congruity. Forgive my nerves— rattling of my subjective coloring and inverted subjects! With a focus on my affinity for the ephemeral, this is in part a remix of left over footage shot and then re-printed on a now defunct and sorely missed Kodak film stock, 7285. A record of my trudging foray into Step-Printing and the indulgence of rediscovering old scraps of images. Conversely, I applied the techniques of Richard Tuohy’s Chromaflex process to weld together then shred apart film scraps guided by an electric pleasure for a visual clash and at moments, harmony. (Simon Liu)

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.

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...

China’s internal economic migration through the dislocated people, creating the cities of the future.

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.

Hong Kong horror film.

A documentary or travelogue about China 2017

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.

A day in the life of a building. Busy people, curiosity and incomprehension.

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.

A young boy’s erotic fixation with a classmate boasting breasts on her back.

The motions and gestures of military riot police, slowed down while performed by dancers, are surprisingly beautiful. Menace and violence estranged from context and time looks eerily strange, and all too familiar. In this gallery piece, Isaac Chong Wai somehow anticipates, a year early, key images of the Hong Kong protests.

I have lost my interest in any kind of social activities after my nose left me.

An experimental film reflecting on the notion of queer memories, and the failure of it through rediscovered footage taken in a journey with an ex-partner.

Completed before Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests of 2019, the dark turns taken in the lives of an ex-activist vegetarian cow and a three-headed rabbit show what may have caused tensions to boil over.

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.

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.

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.

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

The story of an impotent husband, unsatisfied wife and a megalomaniac policeman, illustrating the perfect ecosystem of the concrete jungle, where these characters are able to truly face their lust with no moral laws.

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.

In the community office of a residential building in Beijing, a senior citizen choir comes together every Thursday singing Mongolian songs without any accompaniment. Thoese eventful days spent in Inner Mongolia have left enduring memories to them…

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。