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Forever 17

2019 Movie Drama

While same sex marriage is broadly celebrated in Europe and North America, Hong Kong reminded as a metropolis where such basic social security is missing for the queer communities. Dedicated to the Hong Kong queer icon, Ellen Loo, who committed suicide in 2018, and starting from the moment where Ricky come out to his family, Forever 17 explore an imaginable future for the queer community, through love and acceptance, betrayal and forgiveness, pain and recovery, death and survival, inheritance and eternity, and honouring a life long commitments.

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7.8 FILM

Despite the pandemic sending most industries into recession, debt-ridden wedding planner Dominic (Dayo WONG) gets a miraculous chance to turn things around when a funeral planner retires and passes the baton to him. His creative gimmicks for funerals help his business find unexpected success, but Dominic’s biggest obstacle is winning the approval of respected and sternly traditional Taoist priest, Master Man (Michael HUI). After some unordinary funerals, Dominic gradually understands Master Man’s code of ethics and the meaning behind each farewell.

The Last Dance

2024 Drama
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FILM

The Umbrella Movement rocked the entire city of Hong Kong and rewrote the lives of many. After taking part in the Movement, the daughter of a middle-age couple decided to look for a Burmese girl in exile at Thailand due to political persecution. The couple’s world shattered when their daughter’s flight went missing. Grief-stricken but undeterred, the couple followed their daughter’s plan in searching for the elusive Burmese girl. Their journey reveals different paths to cope with grief and to reach closure.

Turbulence

2015 Drama
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All Christians are blessed by the grace of God—and in some cases, their evils are sanctioned. Devoted churchgoers Grace and her mother live together. Out of Christian charity, they often take in teenagers without parental care. Their latest ward is Ching Yi, a young girl suffering from domestic violence. Brought into their home by Pastor Leung, Ching Yi is treated like a sibling by Grace, who enthusiastically shares her faith to the aloof house guest. Grace’s faith is shaken, however, when she accidentally discovers a secret between Ching Yi and Pastor Leung. When the church disguises vile and unspeakable deeds as the will of God, Grace decides to take matters into her own hands.

Grace

2020 Drama
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Secondary school teacher Mr. Leung meets his student Emily in a classroom after school to talk about her behavioural problems. He is subsequently arrested on Emily’s allegation of sexual assault. Before the trial takes place, Mr. Leung’s colleagues have already decided on his guilt. The school is anxious to brush the matter aside to save its reputation. Ms. Chan has known Mr. Leung for many years and is the only person who believes in his innocence, yet she is criticised and chastised by the others for supporting Mr. Leung. Under pressure from all sides, Ms. Chan hesitates to serve as Mr. Leung’s character witness.

Character Witness

2021 Drama
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What is love in the time of Coronavirus, when people are separated in both space and time? Wing returns to Hong Kong from Taiwan upon learning that her estranged father is dying in a hospital but she has to undergo quarantine in a hotel. Talking to her father through the screen, Wing realises she can never forgive this old man who abandoned the family many years ago, while the other man, her husband, seems very far away in Taiwan. Isolated in the tiny hotel room, Wing battles alone with the diseases of body and mind, caused by old and new grievances.

Let the Dust Settle

2023 Drama
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Chun and Jane are siblings. They were very close as children, but after Jane graduated and started working, while Chun stayed at school for his PhD and spent most of his time in the dorm, they gradually drifted apart. One morning, Jane receives news that her brother has committed suicide. While handling his affairs, she discovers that he had already bought insurance, suggesting he had planned this for some time. To find out the reason behind his death, Jane uses his computer and starts messaging his friends on social media, slowly rediscovering the brother she once knew. In the end, Jane realizes that her search for answers was not only for her brother—and the culprit was never just one person.

The Book of Disquiet

2018 Drama
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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.

In Praise of Teachers

2017 Drama
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There are two kinds of loneliness: The sense of isolation in society which people experience from time to time, and the loneliness in searching for the meaning of life. A young man and an old man suffer the same pangs of emotions not uncommon in the city. They live across the corridor as neighbours but remain strangers, facing the absurdity of life with no means to escape. The vibrant city continues day and night, fuelled by the nameless people living within.

Two Kinds Of Loneliness

2019 Drama
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FILM

In a small town, the funeral of a matriarch brings about the reunion of family members, many returning to the village after leading new lives elsewhere, some no longer speaking the language of the native land. With the passage of time, the big clan becomes fragmented as members, like other modern Chinese in mainland China, face changes in lives, ideals, and family structures. The occasion becomes a hot ground for deals and negotiations that are inevitable amid the rapid development of China, where family members prosper while relationships become calculated. Still, a funeral procession amid an impending storm requires them, already down different paths, to walk together.

Walk with the Storm

2022 Family

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