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After being sidelined by the gymnastics team, Yu quits and reinvents himself as a Latin dance instructor. He assembles a group of children to compete in the Latin dance competition.

Lee Chi Ho is a science lover however he need to give up for his dream because of his family. He believes that the Earth is flat but he didn’t tell anyone about this weird idea. One day he meets a strange uncle who live in a mysterious spaceship and full of Flat Earth documents inside. Moreover, Lee’s son also believes that the Earth is flat but everyone in the school laugh about him, including the teacher. To prove what he believes for his son, he eventually decided to fly to the space with the uncle's spaceship.

The film tells stories about four families with different races. By participating in an inter-school competition, reflecting a group of students in 6E class, from encountering different racial conflicts and issues, to putting all the differences by and work together for a common goal.

The average person’s head has up to 100,000 hairs. Each strand may be unique in length and texture but they are said to bear our memories of sorrow and worry. Neighbors come to the old shop “Barber’s Time” to part with both their hair and bad memories. Although Cantonese style haircutting is on the slippery slope to extinction, barber shop owner Hoi-chuen wishes for his son Cheung-fat to manage the shop. Aspiring to be a writer like J. D. Salinger instead, Cheung-fat takes over “Barber’s Time” when his father had an accident. Just like his father, Cheung-fat develops rapport with the customers and provides guidance. His own life also turns around when a runaway girl comes to the shop. A magical heartwarming tale of community support and kindness, the short features Kaki Shum from the film “Weeds of Fire”.

Bible of Kong Girls takes a look at three women exploring their lives and dilemmas within the space of a year. Splitting the film segments into the four seasons of the year, we follow Asther, Sai B and C-fu. The three modern, spirited and quirky women are introduced to an article, ‘The 37 Self-help Guidelines from Lee Ka-shing’s Private Secretary’ that serves as a sort of bible for the woman of today. With each passing season the women encounter another challenge life throws at them whilst following the rules of the article, but are these guidelines tearing the friends apart instead of helping them?

A mosaic film of three stories in three different Asian cities where the paths of the rich and poor cross one another in and around taxis. A closeted Beijing cab driver tries to seduce a rich passenger, a Hong Kong pregnant trophy wife starts to develop feelings for her new Indonesian maid and a Jakarta slum orphan becomes infatuated with a Western female backpacker. All three characters desperately want to connect on a basic human level but are their own worst obstacle.

Mrs. Ho, a senile and distraught widow, lives by herself in a walk-up building. For more than half a century, Mrs. Ho has been living in her flat since she was married. But, after an accident, her legs went lame. Her son keeps persuading her to sell the flat and move into a building with lifts. She refuses and she wants to hold onto the flat, her only contact with her dead husband, where they used to do tap-dance together. Of course, they weren’t Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers but, the film makes touchingly clear, we need to listen to rhythm of their dance. More importantly, Mrs. Ho’s perseverance and strength recall the portrayal of another old woman – Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet) in Elia Kazan’s masterpiece Wild River (1960).

Liu Yang He, a landmark in Hunan province, is not only the film’s original title but also a well-known Communist folk song in China. It was written during the Agrarian Reform that precedes the Cultural Revolution. Youngsters were sent to farmlands and factories to experience intense labour. They sang to praise Chairman Mao. Kah-kah (Rain Lau) was permanently injured in an industrial accident during that time. When Kah-kah meets this amputated client (Ko Hon-man), they feel sympathy with each other and turn this sympathy into a possibility of love as if they were flowing into a river of no return. Here, Rain Lau’s sophisticated performance resembles her award-winning role in Queen of Temple Street (1990).

When you are concerned with the needed, you have to understand what they really suffer. Lok-yan is a Form Five student. She is under great pressure of studying. She always stays at home alone and has meals in convenience store. Lam Hong is homeless. One day, they come across each other in the convenience store. Lok-yan is too young for purchasing alcoholic beverage. With the assistance of Lam Hong, Lok-yan could finally enjoy her first taste of beer. They become friends. However, Lok-yan finds out that she could hardly understand the difficulties which Lam Hong is facing.

A story taking place in a Hong Kong with a different history. Hong Kong has not undergone a transfer of sovereignty in 1997. In 2003, a teenager, Lap Yan stays at home because of SARS. A girl who is a new neighbor of Lap Yan visits him and stays with him all day. Lap Yan does not realise the outside world is changing, which will affect his own future.

Retired hitwoman Wan is blackmailed into killing again or her cop son Joe will die. As witnesses and assassins are picked off in pairs, Joe investigates his mother’s past and a hidden mastermind.

When Pak Tin Estate is going to be demolished, the residents will move to a new place, but how about the dead residents? Where could they go? Ho Ying-kuen who majors in Myth and Poetry, and Playwriting, leads us to a time and space of a demolishing public estate. We will come across the residents of the estate, a mother with her two sons selling incenses, and two monkeys having conversation about their mother. A mixture of fiction, experimental and documentary images, Lost Cemeteries studies about filial piety and death with a strange and interesting approach.

Edward Leung was an average student before he unexpectedly finds himself at the focal point of two Legislative Council elections. Despite winning over 60,000 votes in the by-election, his ticket to LegCo is forfeited when the regime imposes extra measures in the nomination process. On the other hand, Edward finds his free days numbered as he faces rioting charges for taking part in the Mong Kok Protest.

When Shing Chi Tat got fired by his school, he luckily got into a primary school to continue his teaching career. He was assigned to manage the campus TV while teaching visual arts. But this new environment wasn’t as wonderful as he thought. This time, he has to face complains from parents, and got no support from his superior. Not to mention all the difficulties he has to face during the campus TV shooting process. But this time, he chooses to face the problems together with his students. And this time, he got to rethink what education really means.

Repetition and distortion drive this audiovisual collaboration between composer Lux Prima and visual artist Max Hattler, where fuzzy analogue music and geometric digital animation collide in an electronic feedback loop, spawning arrays of divisional articulations in time and space.

From March 24 to April 15, 2017, Joey Yung held 17 shows for her My Secret Live tour, her first concert series devoted to side tracks. Instead of the Hong Kong Coliseum, the diva chose the smaller, more intimate venue of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Lyric Theatre for this rare concert tour spotlighting the secret gems in her discography.

Lam Tung is an old man living a solitary life in his Hong Kong apartment. Since his children have grown up and moved away, he decides to let a room to an ambitious, young film student Cheng Yang. Both years apart in age and ideals, Piled Cloud provides a fresh look at the generation gap between two very different individuals.

When the flower inexplicably does not bloom, grotesque measures have to be taken. Flower shop employee Molly is passionate about flowers and plants. She understands by instinct that plants are intellectual and capable of communication. With acute sensitivity, Molly could quickly locate and exterminate bugs hidden in the plants. Up in the shop’s attic is where she experiments in breeding a brand new species of flower, which makes no progress. When the flower finally blossoms, there are some changes with Molly’s body…The illusions cultivated from our hearts—will they become true if we believe strongly? With obsession and fanatical beliefs, a path of ruins beyond redemption awaits for Molly.

It is always a lesson on communication between father and son, especially when they are having different points of view on life and death. Hung Fat raises up his son by running his coffin shop. However, his son Chun Wai is a doctor. They are detached to each other. Chun Wai does not understand why his father is so insisted to maintain the old shop. Until one day, Chun Wai inherits the coffin shop, then he understands the important of the shop to the neighbourhood. No matter how the society and environment changes, the meaning of life and death is the eternal lesson which we all have to understand.

310 Tung Chau Street is a tenement building in Sham Shui Po. Three Vietnamese from the same province share a subdivided flat. Unemployment, drug addiction, and arguments brew and breed incessantly in this heated environment. During filming, the two young directors were encumbered by a series of obstacles, which turned the process into a chance to reflect on documentary truth.

The film is set in a future when the central government attempts to replace every citizen’s name with numbers. In such a social upheaval, Ma Yi cares nothing but cancels an auto-masturbating machine. While Ma Yi doesn’t violate the law, he is however arrested and interrogated by the police.

Between 2009 and 2015, Wen Hai followed the lives of workers and worker activists in southern China, the world’s factory. His astonishing film gives nameless workers a face, shows their vital sense of justice and resistance to owners who are only interested in profits – and how they escape the role of victim.

This film mainly tells the story of a young girl who is being chased and beaten by two big men in the noisy and flickering corner of Lan Kwai Fong. When the girl finally fainted from exhaustion, the mysterious and handsome Bartender rescued the girl. The girl woke up in a bar called "Bar.tender" with a tasteful decoration. Bartender with a smile on the corner of her mouth was elegantly mixing drinks in front of the bar. The girl walked to the bar and sat down. At this time, the first customer entered the bar...

Life and death are decreed by fate, so the wisdom goes—but who really controls our first and last breath? When we are vulnerable, is the omniscient and omnipotent Heavenly Father the only refuge? The pastor’s wife is terminally ill. By her death bed is the devoted younger son who wishes to minimize her suffering by withholding life support so that she can leave in peace. The pastor, however, insists on obeying the doctrines and God’s will. As signs of impending death approach, is the pastor simply waiting for a miracle? A difficult debate ensues when love for the family conflicts with religious obligations.

This is Hong Kong. This is Malaysia. This could be any corner of the world. Perhaps we’ve met; perhaps never. Sometimes life glows; sometimes, nothing happens. On the journey of life, we endure, we refuse. Most of the time, we only want to do a bit more, to bring modest changes to the status quo. “Me, my city or somewhere else” documents the thoughts, inner conflicts and choices of five Hong Kong and Malaysian activists at some stages of their lives.

The story is told from the point of view of a high school girl called Jessie (Jessica Wong) whose talent for the Chinese board game Go has earned her the nickname ‘Queen Chess’. She balances her time between practising Go and hanging out with her boyfriend (Yau Hawk-sau Neo). The former seems to win for this studious girl, but it is clear she’s also seeking something to pull her out of this lonely life of late-night computer games.

A coming-of-age story about Yuen Loi, from age 6 to 40 something, who always tries to find his own freedom. Believing that the past, the present and the future all exist at one time, he continues his life cycle as an outsider. Inspired by the eternal return in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, life cycle is a complex process with "I" as the combination of one’s past, present and future. Unless one could free oneself from the past and detach one from the environment, one could only repeat one’s daily races eternally.

Ho Ko-chun suffers from ‘Small Penis Syndrome’. As an adolescent high school student, Ko-chun often feels miserable about his penis size. Only until he meets the cheerful Lok Tsz-kwan, he can finally be energized and uplifted. Tsz-kwan reveals to Ko-chun that he, like Ko-chun, doesn’t have normal penis size. They soon build a perfect bond of friendship. They call themselves as the 'little birdmen'. Unfortunately, it doesn't last long. Tsz-kwan has to leave Hong Kong for his study while Ko-chun stays. After many years, they meet again and they never forget each other. Yet, Tsz-kwan even persuades Ko-chun to become a male prostitute with him...Career could have changed but their friendship remains the same.

Told through the point-of-view of the wandering spirit of the last Javan rhino that was poached in the jungles of Vietnam in 2010, the film takes us through a complex structure of narratives and visuals, both gruesome and beautiful, real and mythological, that have built and upheld certain Vietnamese traditions. From Chinese colonialism and its assertion through the practice of medicine, to French colonialism and their obsession with trophy kills, and throughout the Vietnam war, the animals tell a different side to the story.

The film is a resonant portrayal of the younger generation in the post-Umbrella Movement era. Two years ago, Ah-man (Ng Wing-sze), an independent yet stubborn university student, left home after a furious argument with her mum when the Umbrella Movement broke out. Now, she undertakes a new kind of lifestyle – a life of a vegetarian and an organic farmer. However, she never stops thinking of the taste from home. With the film's fragmentary narrative style, Ah-man’s story also reflects the ambivalent decisions between family and society of her friends.

Everyone has their secrets. Everyone has the past no one’s heard about. But what makes an entire generation sit in stunned silence with unmentionable hesitation to talk about their past? Even the past was 50 years ago. Five decades after the Hong Kong leftist riots, six ex-young prisoners speak out for the first time about their personal and unmentionable experience. Documentary film YP1967 is about their love and hate towards their country, their honour and dishonour as a convicted criminal, their condonation and condemnation of the parties involved, and their truth-seeking and reconciliation with the past.

The town of Zhili accounts for 80 percent of China's output of children's clothes. 15 Hours was shot in August 2016. Zhili, part of the city of Huzhou in the province of Zhejiang, is home to around 18,000 small factories for children's clothing, manned throughout the year by over 200,000 migrant workers. In the 1980s, Zhejiang saw the emergence of a private capital-based garment industry open to any and all operators prepared to invest in flexible business models based on mutual credit or leasing. This film documents one day in the lives of the workers of 68 Xisheng Road in Zhili.

Joyce and Lily have a different class background but stealing unites their friendship. Joyce is the poor one who cannot afford a smart phone whereas Lily is the posh one who turns into a kleptomaniac due to a detached relationship with her family. When Lily spots Joyce stealing a phone from their classmates, Lily helps her out. They even join hands to be partners in crime. Lily teaches Joyce the art of stealing while Joyce appreciates her company. However, too many successes make them go further and further. While starting from shoplifting, they decide to pickpocket on streets. Will their ambition beat them down and have them arrested? Throughout Speaking Low, Joyce and Lily’s friendship also entails an ambiguity of their sexuality.

A dedicated young female martial arts instructor, Ming Yu, who is in search of a true master, has no choice but to dismiss Rufus, a rogue student who doesn't play by the rules. He goes on a drunken rampage on the streets of Hong Kong. Polly, an aspiring artist and language teacher, runs into him and ends up a victim. The experience shatters her confidence, turning her into a hopeless wreck. Encouraged by Kyra, a teenage girl, she reluctantly begins to learn kung fu, training under Ming Yu, who herself hopes to be taught by legendary Wing Chun Grandmaster Wan Kam Leung. Polly's life improves, but learning a few self defense moves somehow isn't enough. Unaware of the connection between her attacker and Ming Yu, Polly sets out to claim back what was stolen from her.

In 1995, the young Taiwanese woman writer Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in Paris's Montmartre district, leaving behind the autobiographical novel LAST WORDS IN MONTMARTRE. Two decades later, the novel was published in English by the prestigious New York Review Books, bringing Qiu renown in Western literary circles and quickly prompting translations into other European languages. Qiu is considered the first openly lesbian novelist in the history of Chinese literature; her debut novel, NOTES OF A CROCODILE, became a "Bible" for the Taiwanese lesbian community and an underground classic in Taiwan and Hong Kong, with an official edition finally published in 2012. DEATH IN MONTMARTRE travels through Taiwan, Paris, and New York to trace the life of this literary star who enjoyed fame only after her death, interviewing literary masters from Taiwan, France, and the U.S. while discussing LGBTQ culture and lesbian literature from a perspective of equality.

The city is overwhelmed by consumerism and information. The constant barrage of information starts to glide past all of us. We are neither here nor there. We try to distinguish fact from fabrication—but we do not always succeed. We ponder on our existence and whether we are in control of our lives. Some people dedicate their lives to the Creator although the presence of a higher power is debatable. We wander from emptiness to emptiness, and realise that life is emptiness in itself. A societal revolution is in order but how should it be carried out? With no success in sight, would the revolution be rendered meaningless? The melancholic musings and rants of the young gloomy leftists are rarely answerable.

A visit to the art museum produces lessons aplenty for mind, body and especially all the little souls.

Fukushima used to be a wonderful place. Unfortunately, since March 11, 2011, "Fukushima" has been superseded by another name: Nuclear Disaster Zone. Six years have passed, but over 80,000 Fukushima residents still cannot return home, still cannot return to their former lives. How did they get through it? Reconstruction work is slow. Several years on, surrounding the site of the Fukushima nuclear incident, there remain many refuge-seeking residents whose homes are still in lockdown. In the streets, people are taking it to their own hands to save their communities. Psychologically and practically, how does one rebuild? Does the civil society's self-rescue mission conclude in recovering what was lost, or in reviving an even better community? In their eyes, what is "revival"? What is the meaning of "rebirth"? Our crew went all over the coastal areas of Fukushima, recording stories of residents each finding their own ways to save themselves.

From Hong Kong, with love! High School class president Wisdom taunts Hei, a fellow classmate, over Hei's hidden love for Ling, the campus queen. Ching, Hei's childhood friend, cannot stand these taunts and assists Hei to form a committee in the Student Union to oppose Wisdom for the position of class president...as well as the right to pursue Ling.

Lana faces an unplanned pregnancy and travels alone to LA to give birth, where she strikes an unlikely friendship with Mae, the owner of the Korean nail salon down the street.

On the small isle of Tap Mun, the ocean breeze gently lifts up strands of grey hair on Lai Lin-shau’s head. He quietly sings in the characteristic tones of the fisherman’s ballads. Seemingly without rules, the pitch and tones alternate and repeat themselves as if they were synchronising with the ocean waves. Lai is one of the few people alive who knows the fisherman’s ballads intimately. None of his children experienced the harsh and unforgiving life at sea. They are not even aware of his priceless knowledge of the ballads. As the fishing community shrinks, old fishermen found new ways of life on land. One performs and teaches the ballads to young children; another uses the ballads to spread her Christian faith. The ballads have become a spiritual harbour for these landed fishermen. But deaths come brutally. Lai loses his listeners and his memory of the ballads. A precious part of him is dying.

It is tough for stray animals to survive in the highly populated Hong Kong, and it is even tougher for mongrels - a breed that is shunned and despised by most. Helen is a volunteer in a dog shelter. She is having a good relationship with the mongrel Cha Siu. One day, Cha Siu causes some troubles which change its life. The manager of the dog shelter has to make a life-or-death decision to maintain the service of the shelter. As unjust as it may seem, the decision is effortless and easy for the manager to make, but the consequence that follows is beyond her wildest dream.

Working as the lowest denominator of the society, wandering about in the streets, sleeping in the filthiest corner of the city – living people who look like they are dead make their living in the darkest places and fondle in wastelands with their half-awaken dreams.

In late 2015, a group of high school students arranged a four-day exchange program between an international school and a local school in Hong Kong. The exchange was filmed by a team of students from both schools and developed into a 40-minute documentary titled, “One Education, Two Systems”. The aim of the project was to develop mutual understanding and appreciation between students at international schools and traditional local schools in Hong Kong and help bridge the divide in the education system. At the same time, the documentary also seeks to spark discussion on education-related topics, various disparities and other differences between the two systems (teaching styles, mental health, learning attitude, general atmosphere and competitiveness).

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.

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.

Woody, an average salaryman, is invited to go to Broken Dream Club every Thursday by his superior Michael. The club is a social meeting held for those who suffer from depression and are unable to fulfill their dream. Led by a bewitching therapist Lily, Woody encounters a group of eccentric people, for example, a football enthusiast who lost his legs, and of course, Michael, a single dad who raised his daughter only to lose her in a car accident. Woody finds it confusing whether to take a role as an outsider or to seek for relief like everyone else. The film constantly makes use of Brechtian effect to explore the interior of each character.

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.

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...

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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.

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.

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 1998, the island of Caspiar sinks, forcing all its inhabitants to flee and become refugees in places such as Hong Kong. Su’s fictional story about one such refugee unfolds through a seemingly stoic interview. The interviewee – a French-speaking white man – works as a domestic worker, a role that subverts colonial expectations of the white expatriate living in Hong Kong. The video concludes with a quotation from the famous “madeleine” passage in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, foregrounding the centrality of memory and recollection in the reimagination of places, identities and histories.

Requiem depicts now-elderly former communists reclaiming memories of their political participation, war, deportation, exile, and socialist dreams, in the form of song. In their youth, they were guerrilla fighters who took on the British in the jungles of Malaya (present-day Malaysia and Singapore) in the anti-colonial war of 1948-1960. Two versions of this work exist, single and double-channel video installation with sound. The double-channel version was shown as part of solo exhibitions in Hong Kong and New York. The single-channel version was shown at the Venice Biennale 2024 as part of The Disobedience Archive curated by Marco Scotini.