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Four young people plan a heist to fight back against rich boomers, only to be caught in a wealthy church’s money laundering conspiracy.

Wolf, born into a deaf family, embraces sign language with confidence despite obstacles in life; Sophie, having received a cochlear implant at a young age, continuously strives to be seen as "normal" despite having a "deaf accent." Alan, with a cochlear implant like Sophie, is capable of both spoken language and sign language; he advocates for diverse modes of communication within the deaf community. Bound by love and friendship, the three embark on a self-discovering journey that is not without its moments of pain.

On, a primary school boy, seeks guidance from a Chinese chess scammer, who sets up endgames in the park. The two lonely souls find solace in their mentorship as they lie their ways out.

"Postcolonial Queen" is a video poem and collage film that satirizes Hong Kong's complex identity through dance, city visuals, and a reenactment of Queen Elizabeth II's visit. It captures nostalgic memories shaped by colonial history, using bamboo scaffolding to represent societal changes and mirrors to reflect surface-level modernity, hinting at deeper identity questions. The narrative weaves together collective memories and personal stories, contrasting the historical event of the queen's visit with a young woman's reflections on her past relationship. This intermingling of narratives invites viewers to explore the fluidity of identity and the evolving essence of Hong Kong amid tensions between progress and tradition.

Freud once said dreams are disguised fulfilments of repressed wishes. Some recurring dreams may have awakened the unfulfilled desires buried deep inside one’s heart. Ceci has passed away at a young age. At night, when her soul wanders and encounters sleepers deep in their thoughts, she will enter their dreams and listen to their hearts. One night, she meets Kate, who is bothered by mundane matters. She finds Kate’s dreams familiar. As she recalls fragments of her memories, can past regrets between the two of them be fulfilled in dreams? The film connects the dimensions of dreams and reality with the girls’ delicate emotions and sings an elegy of lost youth.

After the death of her father, theater actress Nisay returns to her hometown and reconnects with her former lover, Thida. On stage, their love finds its fullest expression but in life, they must navigate bittersweet goodbyes

Two 16-year-old girls, Qian and Vicky, are torn between the lines of friendship and romance, unsure where they truly stand, as they rehearse for a love drama in summer holiday. Before the school starts, the secret kissing plot is exposed and their show is banned. Yet, it unfolds Qian’s courage that she decides to make a bold move on the first school day.

For every emigration wave, there is always a wave of return to Hong Kong. Leaving and returning seem to be the beginning of the journey for rootless Hong Kongers. Perhaps Hong Kongers are destined to wander in a cycle of uncertainty. Emily and her fiancé Vincent immigrate to the UK with hopes of starting a new life. They will take over the home of Megan, an old classmate who has lived there for several years and decided to return to Hong Kong. The three friends roam around London and will bid farewell to each other after spending the day together. It is goodbye but it is also the start of a new journey. The director uses this film to express her own feelings after going through the same journey. She carefully inserts daily life details to show the cultural differences and reflects on the faint sadness of exchanging fates.

The short film captures the memory of an apartment and its surroundings: a young adult man lives his daily life, a journalist interviews a retired novelist who grapples with the idea of the end of the world, and two young boys searching for portals. Three storylines intertwine as the film progresses.

The Creative Camp Ninja team presents another masterpiece - a brand-new sequel with the original cast making a comeback despite their disadvantages! The ultimate villain makes a powerful appearance. Will the duo be able to complete their mission this time?

Chow Kam Wing’s intricate, suspenseful neo-noir charts an unlikely bond between grizzled veteran Tai Bo and rising star Kuku So—he a mysterious rescuer, she a teenager running away from her mother’s abusive partner.

Pan lives two lives. During the day he is the son of a traditional Hong Kong family. But at night he transforms into the unapologetic drag queen Pansze Diva entertaining the underground of the city. Ultimately looking for acceptance by their parents, what does a death in the family change?

A young man, Jian, travels from Hong Kong to Liuzhou in China to visit his aging father who runs a spicy noodles shop with his caregiver and occasional noodle cook, Ah Ping. She fears that Jian will eventually take over the eatery but is unaware that he can only taste sweet, sour and bitter flavours but not hot spicy chili peppers, a crucial ingredient in his father’s signature dish. When Jian reconnects with his childhood friend, now a striking woman working at the local market, their passionate encounter reawakens his senses restoring his ability to taste hot peppers.

Three women from different generations in Macao face pivotal moments in their lives, while struggling to protect their best friends - three magical balloons.

Man and Yee met and fell in love with each other more than ten years ago, but they broke up because of their youth and arrogance. When they met again after many years, Man was obsessed with Yee, and was willing to give up his rambunctious life and keep his feet on the ground. Yee's father is suffering from dementia. Yee has to take care of her father, and her work is also very unsatisfactory. The heavy pressure makes her also develop symptoms of dementia. Man has not been able to find a job because of his low education. Can they stay together in adversity? How to find a way out of the predicament?

Cheung Chau, once a fishing village in Hong Kong, has transformed into a tourist spot. Ri-Tai, a food stall run by A-Cheung, reflects local life, absurdities, and societal realities. A-Cheung spends his days playing games with customers like Plumpy, forming bonds that transcend generations. However, the onset of COVID-19 disrupts this sense of community, leaving the island deserted and questioning whether Ri-Tai's simple way of life will vanish.

Director Ren's grandmother suffered from depression during the Cultural Revolution as her husband was jailed and tortured. Although the Cultural Revolution ended almost half a century ago, the trauma left behind still affects three generations of this family.

Ching became the laughingstock on the Internet. In order to let her mother experience her own predicament, she sought help from the Rescue Office, vowing to make it her goal to play a prank on her mother.

A Hong Kong father and Chinese daughter live in different regions and speak different languages. With their identity and lifestyle antithetical to each other, family members who are supposed to be the closest are actually the most unfamiliar. CHAN Wing-keung, an elderly man who lives alone, is a security guard at a Kwun Tong park. One day, he accompanies his daughter Tsz-shan, who comes from Chinese Mainland, to renew her ID card and open a bank account in Hong Kong. They return home and go for a walk at the park where Wing-keung works. Faced with the gap between them, they are hesitant to speak and can only beat around the bush without making a move. The film gazes at the Hong Kong’s cityscape while ruminating sea changes between father and daughter with its shifting aspect ratio. Once again, Hong Kong Film Award-winning actor Tai Bo acts out the loneliness of elderly in a surehanded performance.

Undercover officer Ho joins forces with his new partner, Leung Yuk Chuen, to infiltrate a gang involved in heroin trafficking. However, they repeatedly encounter unexpected events and find themselves trapped in desperate situations…

Berlin, known for its freedom and inclusiveness of diverse subcultures, is a safe haven for many displaced people. But urban life may not provide the best living conditions. Idealistic traveller Moon struggles to find accommodation in Berlin but receives a helping hand from Anna, who is also a Hong Konger anxious about her unstable life. They temporarily stay at the 15-person co-living facility named Hausprojekt ‘K28’. However, this group of migrants—some have experienced social unrest back home and others just want to experience life in a foreign country—are facing eviction. Two women with very different personalities share what they have and face the hardships of life together. The Berlin-based director uses her perspective as an Asian woman to explore the clash between humanism and gentrification. Featuring Golden Horse nominee Elizabeth TANG and artist Sammi MAK in leading roles, the film deromanticises the situation of Hong Kongers living in a foreign land.

Love is a long road with moments of separation and reunion. Even an experienced driver must remember safety first and keep the clutch in check to avoid repeating the same mistakes in love. CHAN, a middle-aged man with several different types of driver’s license, is dissatisfied with young hearse driver Zi-ling’s driving skills, so he takes over the position. Two people who lost their better halves embark on a journey of life and death, healing, guilt, and letting go. The film depicts this road trip romance through a series of analogies related to modes of transportation, filling the screen with scenery on the roads of Hong Kong. The film, with its ambitious production scale, also charts the social changes of Hong Kong since the turn of the century.

Family pains and abdominal cramps—anyone can allow their body to endure the turbulent intrusion alone. After living in Norway for years, Ling brings her foreign boyfriend home to Hong Kong. The family reunion is seemingly harmonious yet unspoken rifts and resentment will be revealed through family therapy. Will it end in reconciliation or a split-up? Bobby YU Shuk-pui, winner of Best Director at the 17th Fresh Wave, brings her family’s story to the silver screen. With real-life family members appearing on screen, the film examines intergenerational conflict through the lens of the young. With scenes of conversational therapy shot like direct cinema and shifting between fiction and reality through switching aspect ratios, the film faithfully and naturally presents the emotional vortex among family members.

In March 1972, Rebecca Pan self-financed the production of the first ever Mandarin musical, Pai Niang Niang and performed for 60 times at Princess Theatre, Tsim Sha Tsui. This is not only a piece of history of Hong Kong art and culture, but also the most important milestone of Rebecca’s oeuvre. This work used the Broadway musical model to adapt the famous Chinese myth Legend of the White Snake. Bringing together Eastern and Western theatrical styles, the production combined Chinese traditional music, dance, costume and stage design with modern Western concepts. Despite this bold attempt, the resulting work was ahead of its time and was not a commercial success. Also, it was thought to have not been captured on film and faded into obscurity. In April 2023, however, a partial film record of the performance was miraculously discovered. The restored surviving footage has become the finale of this documentary, Pai Niang Niang: The Last Osmanthus Blossom.

Hau was sleeping soundly when suddenly he found himself unable to move. Struggling to open his eyes, he saw a woman in red pressing down on him…

In the last summer before embarking on her journey to study abroad, eighteen-year-old Chen Xi returns to her hometown to bid farewell to the familiar fishing village that holds so many memories. Standing before the vast ocean, Chen Xi finds herself caught in a whirlwind of emotions. The sea, a symbol of freedom, also feels like an invisible cage. Everything she once cherished now seems as insignificant as grains of sand in the face of her growing maturity.

For many, home is a refuge and a sanctuary; for stray animals, however, a loving home remains a distant dream. From 2019 to 2023, director Au Cheuk-man followed the non-profit organisation Paws Guardian on their harrowing missions to rescue and rehome stray animals – many of whom were abandoned, abused, or tortured. The result is a heartrending collection of stories on survival and resilience, highlighting the brutal realities faced by stray animals: of the 40 stray dogs featured in this documentary, only four ultimately found new homes.

Ryu is travelling by car but suddenly he enters a black hole and is taken to the future of Neo Macao.

Super ancient creatures, tempting devils, greedy human, women's fixed fate. A fairy tale or a prophecy? Wake up. It's your time.

Beard Stone has always been troubled by love, thinking that being big and strong would win him the beauty’s heart. However, he only works out to escape loneliness, emptiness, and coldness. Will the arrival of Bed Sister change Beard Stone’s fate?

Lucky Chan is an anxious real estate agent who is never lucky. Caught between nightmares and daydreams, he found his boner dry up on him.

To retrieve his stolen egg waffle, Cowboy unknowingly boards a tram that transports him from 1980s Hong Kong to 2025.

Yue is a focus puller who suffers from eye floaters. On set, he sees his ex-girlfriend Ting Yu through the monitor. She leads him on a search for a meteor shower that will never appear. In the end, Yue begins to see the reality beyond the frame.

"We founded footages with found footages as a found footage" claims the Eurasian collective Pastinaca Videotapes Plantation, composed by anonymous filmmakers. They are rescuing and re-creating an abandoned Chinese "Neican", an old and rare VCR tape, a format now almost extinct everywhere. Such is the case with this political-tourist documentary about Western Cyprus, blossomed of their fertile, unique and mysterious cultivation, perhaps intending to find refreshing insights into the past for present complexities.

Waking up on time. Starting work on time. Leaving the office on time. Having meals on time. Going to sleep on time. He works in a micro space station on a tiny moon orbiting a mega planet, day after day, night after night. Is it real? Is it life? He never thinks about questions like these until she shows up. She wants to disrupt his routine. She tries to short-circuit him. Why does she want to do that? Can she succeed in saving him from this loop?

After the anti-immigration riots occurred in the UK in early August 2024, far-right called to attack 100 places, such as immigration centres, across the country on 7th Aug. The leftist urged to stand up against racism to show solidarity with communities. I joined one of the counter-protests. I jot down what I saw with my camera and reflected from the perspective of a former activist.

Single-gender schools allow few chances for campus romance. Will inter-school activities provide the right opportunity? Ryan is both eager and afraid of mingling with the opposite sex after studying in an all-boys school for years. One day his friend Jayden makes him join a mixed choir formed with an all-girls school. There, he meets the enthusiastic singer Carol. Unexpectedly, Cupid’s arrow carries more than love itself. Ryan will also have to face life lessons such as a test of friendship and the unfairness of the school system. The film’s manga-like style and humourous scenes establish perfect comic timing. The innocence and ignorance of youth come alive while the ending suddenly turns into an anti-climax that reveals the bitterness of growing up amidst shattered ideals.

As a bird that briefly perches is a cinematic diary that weaves together the filmmaker’s sentiments about homeland with reference to the geology of Hong Kong; an analogy between human nature and greenhouse gardening; and her reflections on the choice of living abroad as she studies the everyday life of migrant farmers and their adaptation on foreign soil, reinterpreting agricultural processes and the migration of species. The work explores the implications of rooting, re-rooting and growing as the artist contemplates on the evolving dynamics between land and human.

As a reclusive writer works at home, he notices a mysterious figure watching him from outside his window, only to discover that the stranger is an identical doppelgänger who has come to confront him.

A cultural worker turned farmer extols the healing power of nature, a sea-diving model tackles marine pollution, a wildlife buff practises ‘wellness photography’, and a real estate agent channels his love of birds into paintings.

A documentary director, with Aunt Po Wah’s 70-year-old photo, searches Saigon but finds only memories. Her stories of family and longing shared in Teochew, China, intertwine with Vietnam’s present, casting him adrift in a dreamlike reality.

This playful, expansive trilogy explores the artist’s evolving relationship with Hong Kong as the city undergoes its own upheavals. Reworking the visual language of Asian futurism, some scenes are shot on lush 16mm, immersing viewers in swoony Cantopop and late-night neon; other scenes move away from the nostalgic, stylised world of Wong Kar Wai. Working with actor Ching Ching Ho, Lam deconstructs the fictions of Hong Kong’s screen archive and her own attempts to capture memories of a disappearing homeland. This moving reflection on artmaking in the diaspora draws on collective memories to imagine possible futures.

Zhu Yudi’s almost painfully riveting debut feature chronicles the life of a gambler—the filmmaker’s own father—as he casts his family into spiraling debt with each new “can’t fail” investment in Chinese building construction. Zhu’s documentary project holds the promise of forgiveness and reconciliation, but as his father’s estrangement from his wife and sons grows increasingly acrimonious and desperate, one is left wondering about the countless other families who have become casualties of China’s real estate bubble.

Jackie and Fat are best pal. They crashed a stranger’s memorial service and caused a commotion by using a recording device that could read people’s mind and alter their emotion.

Folding together a mediated memory of a Hong Kong thoroughfare, missives to an imprisoned acquaintance, and an artist’s subversive street art, Chan Hau Chun’s Map of Traces is at once precise and slippery in its exploration of presence and absence.

Kelly accidentally discovered from the dashcam that her husband, Jim, was cheating on her. She took her daughter and car away, but she was still hesitant about getting a divorce. To make a living, Kelly became a ridesharing driver. However, she received several complaints from passengers about her poor driving skills, and she fell into financial difficulties due to mounting tickets. Just when she was about to give up, a few encounters with various passengers made her reconsider her decision. While Jim pursued reconciliation, Kelly faced the choice: to give Jim another chance or continue to raise her daughter alone.

The Incredible family helps their powerless younger sister prepare for her first-grade admission interview, using telepathy to tackle the challenges. Unexpectedly, their efforts only make things worse.