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Behind the gas masks of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, the often very young activists are just as diverse as the youths of the rest of the world. But they share a demand for democracy and freedom. They have the will and the courage to fight – and they can see that things are going in the wrong direction in the small island city, which officially has autonomy under China but is now tightening its grip and demanding that ‘troublemakers’ be put away or silenced. Amid the violent protests, we meet a 21-year-old student, a teenage couple and a new father.

Choosing between family, school and her dream, which will it be, will Fong return the school or step on the stage?

Angela Su’s fictional artist Rosie Leavers is the last remaining person to upload her consciousness to a video game. Contemplating during a pandemic year which also saw people’s resistance movements in many parts of the world, the work pinpoints the uncanny affinities between gaming and warfare strategies. They have mutually informed the infrastructure of both worlds since time immemorial when diplomatic conflicts played out on the battlefield of the 64 squares of a chess board to flight simulation technologies which were adapted to shape gaming experiences as we know it now. When the conflict is between the state and its people, she speculates that gaming strategies empower civilians in resistance movements to counter imperialism through its own operative logic. But once we upload our consciousness, are we able to return to the sensibilities and political motivation that inspired the revolution to begin with?

Changing times and cultural landscape lead to differences in musical taste. Ah Ning wrote Cantonese pop songs in the 1980s, and revels in the glory days of “good music”. The music scene changes, and he falls into oblivion. A piece of bad news leads to a brief reunion with his daughter Lok Kei after ten years of separation. Lok Kei is now a big fan of K-pop which Ah Ning despises and considers empty and repetitive. Just like in many generational conflicts, through their love for each other, Ah Ning and Lok Kei try to unravel all the hidden truths and misunderstandings in their limited time together.

After the early passing of mother, father and son grow apart as they mourn the loved one separately. When grandfather suffers a fall, the two devote their time to the care of grandfather. A glimpse of what the family used to be like resurfaces, and the once estranged relationship improves. Unfortunately, grandfather has another accident. As father is busy making ends meet, he has no choice but to send grandfather to a nursing home. Father and son are determined not to let this new challenge jeopardise their relationship again.

A newly-baked bun in a bakery tries to avoid getting eaten.

After their father's death, Wah and her older brother Jason inherited the small shop "Remembering". Inside "Remembering", there is an old, worn bulletin board covered with missing person notices and messages of longing accumulated over the years. One night, both of them encountered people in the city carrying memories and pain. Searching for the missing is just a process; perhaps the people we cannot find are simply living in a place happier than where we are.

Fong Hang and the witch first met in 1947 after WW II. She gave him a candy, and then he fell in love with her. In 1967, they went their separate ways, but still promised to meet each other every 10 years. The witch didn't grow old. She always looked like 20 when they met. But time was cruel to Fong Hang, He had suffered from losses and finally understood the pain of the witch’s immortality in 1997. In 2007, when the Queen’s Pier was taken down, the witch met Hang’s son, but he didn’t like the taste of the candy at all. An era had finally came to an end.

A story about how the daughters deal with a dad with Dementia.

Ho Bor, a former boxing champion is trying to regain his own place as a contender.

In 2019, Ching joined the Hong Kong protests and sought refuge in Taiwan after her brother Long was arrested. In the cold summer of 2024, she returned to Hong Kong to visit her mother and Long who was incarcerated, and proposed the idea of moving to Taiwan to live together.

In a quiet forest, a sign warns of radiation hazard. “Is this the past or the future?” muses the masked figure who appears like a kind of ghost in nuclear disaster areas. At a time when nuclear power may be re-emerging as an alternative to fossil fuels, this calmly observed and compelling tour takes us to places that may serve as a warning.

Lost Course chronicles a grassroots democratic movement in the southern Chinese village of Wukan. The villagers protest against the corrupt local officials before ousting them and organising elections of their own. However, after taking control of their destiny, the villagers find themselves beset by the same corruption and cynicism endemic. Following three main characters, Li reveals the complexities of their struggles, triumphs and setbacks from the inside.

Bai from Hong Kong takes a leisurely trip in Kaohsiung and meets a Japanese young man Hei there. Both are finding refuge in their own little world when the calmness of the water surface is shattered one day. They suddenly realise the world is not as large as they imagine; and their little world is not exactly that little.

Ching’s parents are retirees ready to leave for Taiwan where a new chapter awaits them. The only thing holding them back is their daughter’s hesitation to join them. Unbeknownst to them, Ching is stuck in an affair with a married man. She is constantly teetering between trust and distrust, clinging on unfulfilled promises instead of letting go. Life has presented a difficult crossroad to her as she weighs between acting for her own good and following what the heart desires.

Dea leaves rural Indonesia and her singing dreams to migrate to Hong Kong as a foreign domestic worker. The script is the result of a nine-months acting improv laboratory with a group of Indonesian women migrant domestic workers, who have been victims of domestic violence while working in Hong Kong.

The master trainer's business has developed into a conglomerate and is being developed in a community center in an impoverished area. The community center is ostensibly a non-profit volunteer organization, but in reality, it uses the elderly and infirm to help the organization to engage in criminal activities and make huge profits. A group of young volunteers from the center gather secretly in the basement every night, and the master trainer brainwashes them with the idea of hating the rich and making the world a better place by assassinating the rich and committing drug crimes for the organization, so that they can regain the goal of their lives and help the organization loyally.

A young woman, Miu Ling, who dreams of becoming a secret agent. One day she rescues an injured Agent Wing, who promises to make her his apprentice. From then on, her life is a roller-coaster of madcap adventures.

People in a red-brick-walled compound are barricaded by a group of mysterious men who threaten those in the compound day and night, telling them not to escape and act as if everything is normal. The people inside muse on the drastic changes in their lives, as their limits are constantly being tested and pushed. Some risk their lives trying to escape, while others lose their will and dwell in the surreal realm between dream and reality.

A short feature film by Stanley Kwan, bringing us back to the world of Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung in Rouge, with the new cast Cecilia Yip and Ng Siu Hin.

A man's life in three vignettes as he grapples with identity amidst tradition in Hong Kong's notorious Kowloon Walled City.

At a zhizha shop, paperservant dolls eagerly await their destiny of being sent to serve their masters in the underworld. They must be sent out within forty-nine days following their masters’ death, or end their unfulfilled existence as waste paper. Old Mr. Yeung, owner of the zhizha shop, is determined to keep the artisan trade alive. Yet with the old neighbourhood being redeveloped, the shop’s business dwindles along with the chance for the kind-hearted Lo-mui and Kam-lo, two paper dolls crafted by old Mr. Yeung, to find a master. The dolls hatch a plan to escape in a race against time before their demise.

A young boy in a dark room must face alone a mysterious threat.

In 2013, My Voice, My Life followed classes of students from three high schools for underprivileged kids and one school for the visually impaired as they embarked on a voyage of self-discovery through taking part in a musical production. Six years later, what kinds of lives are they leading now? My Voice, My Life Revisited goes in search of four of those students: Ah Bok, Coby, Sio Fan and Tsz Nok, charting their transformation and how they have grown over these past few years, as well as the challenges they are facing today.

Short film commissioned by the Hong Kong Police Force.

"Invited In" centers around an anxious and timid freshman named Annie, who finds herself mid pandemic realizing how isolated she has been her whole life. The feeling is heightened because of the pandemic which forces her to get out of her comfort zone and connect with someone. She makes her first “real” friend through social media with Emmy, the bright and “genuine” lifestyle influencer over Zooms until Annie is exposed to how artificial online friendships can be.

Love is like a flickering lamp whose shades and shadows conjure up images that unsettle the mind. Barista Dawn met her elite boyfriend at a café in Hong Kong’s financial district. At his surprise birthday party, Dawn finds herself out of place among her boyfriend’s privileged friends. Among the birthday presents is a gold designer lamp. As Dawn ponders its reflection, a nightmare begins to take form in her head. On the next day, Dawn encounters a mysterious woman who is her mirror image. Dawn decides to follow her.

The "In Memory of Leslie Cheung" online concert will take the night view of Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong as the stage. The opening video will kick off with Leslie Cheung's famous song "Star". Coupled with special effects production, Hong Kong with world-class night scenes is presented to the audience.

Bill Wong was a professional debt collector until he met the lovable Lok Hui, one of his debtors. Instead of doing what he usually does best, he decides to help Lok through her tough situations. They develop a mutual affection for each other and Bill’s gangster boss’s become aware of this situation, resulting in Bill getting caught between the rock and a hard place.

Danny gets locked out of the house. His mother is home, but he's reluctant to ring the doorbell.

What's on your menu? Ho and Fung explore the intracices of Chinese dessert as their friendship blossoms into romance. Their happiness, however, is short-lived. Feeling unaccepted by those around them, the couple embark on an increasingly perilous journey featuring hallucinations, jaywalking and unorthodox conversion therapy. Will their love triumph in the end?

In autumn 2019, at the peak of the anti-extradition law amendment bill movement, Yung and Yin meet on the streets. After the arrest of Yung, Yin finds herself in the awkward situation of visiting Yung’s home for the first time. Meeting the parents, Yin has to skip the usual polite chatter and put away Yung’s items before the court warrant arrives. In this austere and awkward first meeting, they talk about the absent son. The long night drags on as the shocked and worried parents are overwhelmed by the opposing political views, by relationships torn and healed, by their hopes and regrets. When dawn comes, what will become of Yung?

Ms Chan, a social worker who has just returned to work, receives her first case. She pays a visit to Jia, a single elderly who seems to have accidentally dialled the Care-on-Call Service. Jia has suspicious bruises on his face and Ms. Chan senses a possible family abuse situation. However, Jia’s attitude is unwelcoming and he sends her off right away. Since then, a series of peculiar events make Ms. Chan question her own sense of reality and sanity.

During the pandemic, the filmmaker’s son found himself stuck at home for a very long time. Ying Liang watched him cut out a portrait of Abbas Kiarostami from a book, and create a face mask on the face of the Iranian filmmaker. Liang observes how his son builds a ‘world’ on his bed, makes a paper airplane, and flies various places with his new friend Abbas Kiarostami. After spending the whole day flying, he falls asleep on that same bed with the family’s kitten. In his dreams, he uses the ‘magic’ he has learned from an online magic course to remove the face mask. With The World of Mindfulness, Chinese filmmaker Liang – who is now living in Hong Kong – creates a marvellously simple piece about the world of childhood, adding a touch of playful cinephilia.

Using immersive camera work and a heart-pounding soundtrack, Faceless takes us to the frontline of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong to meet four young people who risk their lives and fly in the face of absolute power.

A lonely man is hired to take care of the to-be-demolished Cheung Chau Cinema. He is greeted by a dog, two kids, and a mysterious granny who calls everyday. The film was shot in the ruin of Cheung Chau Cinema, locating in Cheung Chau, an island in Hong Kong. Before saying goodbye, he organises his own screening of The One-Armed Swordsman (1967) directed by Chang Cheh.

Ming often talks with the dolls, he meets a young lady who is going to leave Hong Kong. The young lady is determined to get a doll, Ming has decided to help her but failed.

Jesus match couples with red ropes, so they cannot separate with each other. However, the man thinks that she is not “the one”, who`s pregnant for 3 years. He decides to find his true love, instead to not follow Jesus`s arrangement anymore. It seems good at the beginning, but things did not went the way he think. Who is his “true love”? Does “true love” even exist?

Love is patient, love is kind. A couple of lovers got married after years of romantic relationship. Whenever they are confronting the ups and downs of their marriage, they cook for each other. With how much love comes how much hate, this cooking habit reflects their love for each other, but it also reveals the dark side of this relationship. FINE DINING showcases the 3rd, 5th and 7th year of their marriage, with three recipes of their favorite dishes.

Electrifying performances of hook-heavy rock and pop funk music.

“History is not just a matter of date”, said Chris Patten in his last speech as British Governor of Hong Kong, shortly before the United Kingdom handed administration of the province back to China in 1997. In DECAMERON, Rita Hui Nga Shu combines this speech and other historical sources with fiction and contemporary images. Her gripping documentary takes a critical look, for example, at the question of what Hong Kong actually is at this particular moment in time.

With the form of remote audio conversation for its main narrative, the essay film consists of four chapters, each of which has its own focus but is also interconnected with each other. Blending voice narratives in four languages, moving images and literary texts, the film is mainly made from home video collections created in the 1990s from both filmmakers’ families, with home videos shot in the 1960s by a Hong Kong family as interludes. The film not only unfolds how East Asian families created their own image with amateur filming devices but also tells stories of migration, travelling, growing and familial relationships.​

After the 2014 Umbrella Movement, Hong Kong Democrats divided into two groups with differing beliefs and protest methods. ‘Community March’ members, often labelled as leftards, focus on fearless community work and caring for minorities, despite not joining frontline protests. Senior journalists Lo King Wah and Kong King Chu highlight their dedication to community service and democratic ideals, showing how they persist in voicing concerns and promoting democracy despite political repression.

A lonely traffic warden falls in love with a mysterious delivery boy and found out they are sharing the unusualness of synesthesia. The mysterious delivery boy believes that all the five senses are intimately connected in one pattern, if he could find a person who shares the same pattern with him, he could fall into the other side of the reality. The traffic warden has to choose if she is going to take a leap of faith or staying comfortably in this lonely boring reality.

A Life in Six Chapters is S. Louisa Wei’s latest documentary, devoted to the writer Xiao Jun. It can be seen as part of a series of works beginning with Storm under the Sun on the Hu Feng Affair, and includes documentaries on Wang Shiwei, the cultural critic who became one of the first intellectuals to be purged by Mao in the Yan’an period; and the writer Xiao Hong, who after a six-year common-law marriage to Xiao Jun eloped to Hong Kong, where she died a tragically early death.

In Hong Kong, echoes of resistance and turmoil are sensitively captured on 16mm in this poetic rumination of public spaces and everyday life in a metropolis in upheaval.

A poetic exploration of the camera's gaze and a family's relationship with the filmmaker's mother.

“Elephant in Castle” is created within the context of two strange years, 2019 and 2020. The work expresses a constant change within Florence’s inner world, to express the emotional, aesthetic, and tactile responses that she has to Hong Kong, the city where she grew up. The film is both a reflection on the political and social changes in the city and an attempt to understand the relationship between city, place and the individual.

A poetic, experimental portrait of four Hong Kong women in London working to digitise records of the handover agreement between the United Kingdom and China. Impressionistic and precise, personal and expansive, Cheung's elegant, eloquent work decodes history and how politics are enacted.

A time and space that get mixed up, A brother and a sister, One who loves starting fire, Whereas the other loves extinguishing it, An unusual relationship.

Hong Kong. 2020. A young couple consider their future.

From April 3 to 6, 2021, RubberBand held the Ciao 2021 concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum for four consecutive days. Many of the band's classic songs, such as Guo Huo, "Song Against the Current," "Discovery," "You and Me" and "See You in the Future," were newly rearranged for the tour. Patrick Lui Jazz Orchestra and a cappella group AMuiXis were also invited to perform, creating new musical sparks for the concert. RubberBand especially wrote the new song Ciao to reflect the tour's theme of separation and reunion.

Ming, travels to Hong Kong with her mother to search for her younger brother, Aki, who left home with dreams of becoming a star, only to discover that Aki has become a male prostitute. A-Ming gradually leaves her hometown and becomes close with the people living in the dormitory for staff at an abandoned pharmaceutical factory. Through her interactions with them, she develops an inseparable brotherly bond. However, cold-hearted authorities invade the crumbling temporary paradise built on the ruins.

The film portrays the author's fear of how Hong Kong has changed and how she faces her emotions. It feels like the soul is broken into many pieces, but if we survive, depths of night will eventually pass.

"sub vid heap" is a visceral and compositional study on domination, shot a year after the birth of a first child. An exhausted ego and a needy id, the sensory and the lingual, desire and duty, horror and humility vie it out in a haunted hall. Captured at Headlands Center for the Arts, screams of a baby are muted out while the process of portraiture claims space for a body craving autonomy. Actions of pushing, vacuuming and rocking conjure the rickety bones of downtrodden ancestors, calling the laboring body from the periphery to the center, moving the rage through the body for joy to inhabit the space it vacates.