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Refused to play by the unspoken rules, former model Julie starts her own classy thirst trap modeling business with the hope to make a breakthrough. Things don't go as planned as a nude scandal breaks out. Overwhelmed by betrayal, unexpected gains and losses, Julie begins to rethink her business and her future.
Entry to the Nikon Film Festival yearly contest to make a film on a given topic in less than 2min20. This year's topic was "the number 13". Synopsis: Alex suffers from triskaidekaphobia, an intense and irrational fear of the number 13. Will he be able to overcome his anxiety triggered by the simple sight of the number 13?
Lee Wai Shing’s short film focuses on family in response to Huang Canran’s poem ‘So Close’, narrating a son’s journey to visit his mother in North Point
Three gangsters were hired by a businessman. They originally planned to carry out a fake robbery so that the businessman could successfully defraud a huge amount of insurance money. It is a very simple task, but it turned into a death catastrophe that affected the whole world. The gangster boss (played by Sam Gor) is a decisive, ruthless and vengeful man. He leads two subordinates, one is loyal and calm (Abi), and the other is very lustful and neurotic (Apo). It seemed to be a simple fake robbery, but because (Apo) killed the businessman driver by mistake, the whole plan was ruined. The businessman then planned to set up an ambush and arrange for multiple killers to kill the three people, but he was annihilated by the boss instead. Later, The boss planned to settle a score with a businessman, but he found a suspicious doctor outside the office door.
Chu collaborated with young dancers and choreographers to explore prolific Hong Kong poet Yam Gong’s “Daily Life” (1987), which describes the nightmarish experience of falling seriously ill.
Facing the demolition of their worlds, 24 year-old musician Jack roams his city for one final look as he prepares for their inevitable farewell, seeking an answer and meaning to his departure from this world.
Since his release from prison, Sweet Potato has been content to run a little business with a meager income by the sea, disregarding the advice of others to the contrary.
A unique whale named 52Hz vocalizes at a frequency significantly higher than the typical calls of most whale species. It is believed that other whales cannot hear their calls, leading 52Hz to be described as the ‘world’s loneliest whale’. Pau poetically connects this unique whale to the stories of a sex worker, a YouTuber, and school bullying.
Depicting Ka-ho Hung’s story and growth since his debut in 2018.
Translating and encapsulating the director's personal childhood experiences as well as past lived experiences, You build a home in my mind comprises of playground rides, the everyday scenery outside the window of the artist's studio, and unique, special objects recalled from memories—weaving together a melody that lures the viewers to roam and wander. As the boat navigates between reality and imagination, resembling a journey of constant loss and persistent search, the scenes become slightly different when they reappear, these scenes alluding to the repetitiveness and uncertainty of life.
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.
A chronicle of the grassroots effort to save the iconic State Theatre in North Point from demolition. This evocative documentary is also a deep dive into the eye-opening story of Harry Odell, the theatre’s founder and Hong Kong’s first impresario, who brought Xavier Cugat, Isaac Stern, and other legendary musical figures to the city. Rich with local history, and possessing a surprising connection to local singer Hins Cheung, the story of the State Theatre and Harry Odell is a celebration of Hong Kong’s dynamic culture and indomitable spirit.
Produced during the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover from Great Britain to Mainland China in the wake of cataclysmic regional changes, Simon Liu’s dizzying, claustrophobic Let’s Talk captures the anxiety of an uncertain future.
Just Like Snakes is a reinterpretation of the popular Chinese folklore The Legend of the White Snake. In the traditional story, a white snake transforms into a woman and falls in love with a man. When a monk discovers their transgressive romance, he punishes the snake by imprisoning her in a pagoda. This tale has been celebrated across Asia for centuries, evolving to reflect the changing morals of each era. Commissioned by CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile) in Hong Kong, Just Like Snakes responds to the city’s first Chinese musical based on the same legend, created by the iconic Chinese diva Rebecca Pan. Through music and dance, the film questions the limitations of story archetypes. Revisiting the folklore as a metaphor for contemporary society, it proposes: now that the pagoda—representing restrictive societal constructs—has collapsed, how might we observe and adapt to a shift in paradigms that calls for new orders in our world today?
Ting's hometown was far away, but now she had made her home on Nam Kok Road (meaning "The Southern End") in Kowloon City. Ting wanted to go around and know the area. The various trivial things she saw on the streets invoked many inner thoughts and monologues in her. When the night came, she wrote down “words about staying”. While she was wandering on the street, she walked past countless walls of silence where time had left marks on.
One ordinary Sunday, the husband woke up from sleep, had lunch with his wife at noon, the wife went out in the afternoon, the husband fell asleep again, a director came to see him... In this ordinary day, the husband, wife, and director look like they care about and communicate with each other, but they are actually talking to themselves, and the most important thing is the end, the wife asks the husband to get up to eat. So is this husband's experience a dream or a reality?
Who lost their memory? Why did you forget your story? Where is my hometown? Home Kong is an 8-minute short film comprising only 3 drone shots. A tale of 2 cities. A co-production between Hong Kong and Taiwan.
During his studies in Edinburgh in 2021, filmmaker Fredie Chan experienced a protest by the locals to fight for their housing rights, as developers are discovered to be converting empty lots and unused old buildings into new international students flats, rather than resolving severe housing shortage for the locals. From the perspective of a Hongkonger, who is no stranger to housing problems, the documentary follows a group of local grassroots housing advocates, attempting to investigate the crisis, connecting the dots between global and local. Screened with the director’s previous film Beautiful Life, about an Indonesian girl who left her homeland to work as a domestic helper for a financially unstable grassroot family in Hong Kong.
Many things happen under the wall, and many people always talk with the wall just like Charlie Brown. This story is talking about the relationship of the wall, city, memory and history.
“Defoam” is an animation depicting the main character entering the laundry shop with an impulse to wash the memories away but the act lead them to a void realm where they came to a realisation on the proposition of knowing thyself.
This is a set of pre-show animations commissioned by M+ Museum. Inspired by Shek Kip Mei Park, Shatin's cycling track and M+ Museum, this work captures Hong Kong's unique cityscape.
Chiu, a lonely teenager, always feels disconnected from school and home. One day, she comes across a poor stray cat on the street and takes it home for a decent bath. Unfortunately, the cat dies at her home eventually. However, its death unexpectedly brings her the long-awaited attention she has longed for through social media, leaving her feeling content.
Heart Murmurs is a poetic dialogue between the filmmaker and Dean, a young man living in Hong Kong. In reflecting on his experience living with a congenital disability and HIV during the first years of the COVID pandemic, Dean expresses his sense of self in the face of regular medical challenges.
During the epidemic of COVID-19, many people are facing the crisis of unemployment. Internet enterprises suffer heavy losses and decide to fire millions of programmers. And these companies use the word "Graduation" instead of "Layoff".
Will they meet again, or is it already the end?
We cannot escape from bureaucracy in life as well as in death. Quickie promises his grandma to handle the forced removal of his great-grand aunt’s niche. But without the ancestor’s identity documents, Quickie cannot apply for public columbarium niches. On the other hand, grandma refuses to have the evicted ashes brought home for fear of bad luck. As he struggles with bureaucratic red tape, Quickie thinks of one inventive solution after another to find a temporary home for the ashes. The story is a biting commentary on ridiculous public policies rendered in vibrant, energetic colours and groan-inducing jokes to highlight the absurdity of the situation.
In August 2016, one year after graduation, Albert returned to New Asia College to end his life. Ching-yi and Raymond met because of Albert’s passing, and organized his funeral together with some other friends. Six years later, they occasionally get together to chat about this forever young, handsome, and stylish friend.
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.
A little girl called Beibei goes to the seaside every day to gaze into the boundless sea, hoping to one day see her father return. Everything changes when she finds a seashell with a message from him engraved on it. From then on, she starts a journey with her dad from the sea to the universe.
In the artist's first solo return to Bangkok, they navigate the unfamiliar within the familiar. Through technological fantasies of an alternate self left unexplored in Hong Kong, they interrogate artificial intelligence in search of answers. By observing and emulating local youth culture, they reflect on lifestyle, belief, and their evolving understanding of identity.
Appearance, hormone, sex appeal. When we are tired of everything about these, all we want to do is break, demolish, and destroy. With crazy cut-out animation, this film is trying to release us with the strong beat of the song and search for revenge in a chaotic but unique world.
When a group of four children discovers a mysterious phenomenon in the form of a claw machine that can grant wishes, they start to play around with it, unaware that everything comes at a steep price.
A quiet study of an afternoon. In the soft light of Room 1914, the film captures the gentle rhythms of a family: the hum of a fan, the pouring of water, and the dignity of daily labor. A poetic observation of life's textures.
<(Welcome to) The Planet of Orchids> is a cinematic anthology exploring the fascinating lives of orchids and their intricate relationships with neighbouring species. In this film, orchids are portrayed as indigenous beings who have thrived despite humans' indiscriminate colonization of ecosystems. Orchids take centre stage as protagonists, unfolding their unique or ordinary narratives from a plant-centred viewpoint. As such, the diverse and multidimensional dynamics of the transhuman community, which all ecosystem members belong, are revealed, and human audiences finally encounter 'Planet Orchid'.
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.
With the arrival of an outsider, a peasant woman in rural China begins to sense the repressive, patriarchal bindings of her fate. A fruit tree fights to bloom. The Funeral of Spring is a deeply symbolic, intimate and languidly pastoral exploration of a woman’s sense of self in an environment devoid of female autonomy.
As Christmas 2021 neared, democracy symbols vanished from Hong Kong campuses. This visual diary reflects one person's quiet, selective witness at City University over three months.
Sounds turn into abstract images creating a tightly connected audiovisual experience.
Colors explores the bright and vibrant colors in the Central neighborhood. A glimpse of tension was found between the concrete and lines.
Hong Kong horror film.
Artist Jolene Mok contrasts the movements of Hong Kong’s sparrows with different forms of local transport in response to Hong Fu’s poem ‘Suppose a Few Birds Fly By'
A minimalist study of nature's expiration. The film isolates a butterfly's final moments against the city's mechanical heartbeat. Through high-contrast imaging, it observes the collision between life and industrial entropy.
A lively world under a microscope where different microorganisms are born, mating and decaying.
A musically synchronised film that draws inspiration from the Portuguese word, “verão” (summer). Rising temperatures within a digital domain, yielding errors, crashes, glitches, and malfunctions.
I like to sneak pictures of ladies with mobile phone, yet I have never imagined that the lady will appear before my eyes in such an inconceivable way.