Discoveries from Hong Kong SAR China World Cinema

A young woman reminisces on the life of her mother years after her untimely death. “Searching for Her,” is an intimate exploration, told through old photographs and home videos, of a daughter coming to terms with a person she hardly knew. “For some reason I forgot you had emotions,” says the daughter, filmmaker Natalie A. Chao, in a present day hypothetical letter to her mother, “your own style, friends, a love life.” Her reflections form a moving tribute, a poetic re-evaluation of family history, memories, culture, love.

That night, a lady met a lovely beast, a gigantic slimy cheesy one.

Composed of material from the FBI Vault and the Jonestown Institute, this work consists of several sequences of monologues, confessions, and speeches by members and personalities of the United States and the Soviet Union. By juxtaposing this audio-visual archive with the video game Outlast 2, which was inspired by the 1978 Jonestown mass suicide, the film attempts to expose the abandonment of the quest for a Promised Land by Jonestown members. This abandonment, in the end, was also that of religious socialism.

Li Bing is a Buddhist nun who has worked for years to set up schools for local children in ethnically-Tibetan regions. In September 2016, she helped set up the Songhe Mani Tent School and hired two teachers, Gan Ge and Lhamo. The local incarnate Buddhist Lama has problem with their behaviors. In March 2017, as the new semester starts, the villagers come up with all sorts of excuses to demand that Lhamo be removed as teacher at the school. As Lhamo is forced to leave, Li Bing decides to remove Gan Ge too, as well as all the tents that serve as the school’s dormitory.

A two-channel video installation that uses the metaphor of birth to depict the process immigration (emigration): a daunting and disorienting experience that is nonetheless imbued with hope. Combining footage shot by the artist with his delightful animation work, the synchronized dual-channel videos are connected through a voiceover. The result is a subtle depiction of key junctures in human life.

The reconstruction of a cup of ice cream soda, an exploration of how ingredients can behave in different ways.

My granny is old, she suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, hardly remembers anything, hardly walks, hardly speaks. She even spits everywhere while eating. Granny becomes a "child", and her daughter becomes her "mother". She takes care of her, hoping that my granny will get better someday, just like a child will finally grow up. But people can only get older and older. Granny is too old, the only thing she can remember, is the date of her grandson's birthday, June 30th."

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.

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.

A stunning piece of imagined night cartography rendered in an intricately crafted digital filigree.

Tse Man Fu collapsed at home and his daughter filmed the entire process of him receiving treatment. This process also inspired the daughter to take a new look at her divorced parents, her stubborn grandmother and how their three-generation family has been coexisting.

Dear, Can I Give You a Hand? explores the erotic obsessions and existential panic of a senior citizen with a deadpan narration as touching as it is disturbing.

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.

Invisible Women follows the lives of three ethnic Indian women in Hong Kong. In the film, Cheung explores gender inequalities and looks at the lives of ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.

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

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.

A man in a wheelchair sits in a locked room. When cracks start to appear on the ceiling and it threatens to collapse, he tries to flee.

Essentially a remake of Robocop, with a less cohesive plot, a female Robocop, and more slapstick humor.