Kaki Sham

In 1970s Hong Kong, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) was formed to bring down the corruption syndicate led by British government officials. One of its top investigators is Senior Investigator Lau Kai-Yuen, who brought down countless corrupted officials. Just as he thought stability and prosperity are within reach, a new era of greed and riches takes him into a new battlefield of corruption.

Throughout his life, CHEUNG Tak-hung is obsessed with creating his own cloud. After an untimely cardiac attack, CHEUNG wakes up and finds himself onboard a flight of the Afterlife Airline, and learns that the destination depends on the testimonies of the witnesses, who will determine whether CHEUNG has led a meaningful life. Will CHEUNG be able to find someone who approves of his life as a cloudmaker and send him to the realm of eternal bliss? With cloud as an allusion to dream/life, the thought-provoking short features a strong cast including CHU Pak-hong, Kaki SHAM and Candice YU On-on, against a fantastic set design reminiscent of Michel GONDRY’s dreamscapes.

A driver who has ties with criminals follows certain principles and distinguishes himself from the “bad guys”. But just as the unanticipated carrots found in the usual “Today’s Special”, this night’s mission is made special when a young woman is seemingly in grave danger. Trying his best to avert the crisis through a night’s battle of car chases and fist fights, he arrives at the totally unexpected destination of futility. Appropriating the most popular elements of Hong Kong genre cinema: triads, street fights and car chases, Tiger YAU’s first drama short cooks up a visually rich bowl of “Today’s Special”.

A loving mother makes a death pact with a spirit by sacrificing her life to save her child. Years later, he grows up and is bullied whilst studying in medical school, resulting in his death. Reunited in death as vengeful spirits, mother and son open up a hell hole to those who had wronged them.

This anthology film features a triplet of horror stories starring up-and-coming actors and popular local Youtubers. When a film crew is haunted by paranormal activities, the director decides to cast her to play a ghost; When a taxi driver takes his girlfriend to a party room to get it on, a horny ghost adds spice to the proceedings; When a wandering ghost refuses to leave a soon-to-be-gentrified mall, the tenants concoct a plan to send her off.

Mei-fung was once a top artiste manager but she quit when she got pregnant. After years of living as a housewife, distance has grown between her and her husband. The fact that her 17-year-old son Hin is about to study abroad prompts her to re-enter the entertainment world. A chance encounter with Ching, a delivery boy at a local cafe, leads her to a talented singer. With her connections and his raw talent, the public soon falls in love with him. But while her career flourishes, her son Hin only sees a caring mother turning into a career-driven stranger. When their family falls apart and Ching arrives on the scene, a rivalry develops between Hin and Ching.

A 28-year-old I.T. geek suddenly finds himself the object of affection for five attractive women within the same year. The quintet share virtually no similar traits except one quirky thing: they all live in remote corners of Hong Kong.

A pair of lovers, one of whom is a humanoid, go to a robot repair shop hoping to have their relationship mended by the mechanic. On his advice, the human owner Jackie agrees to an irreversible upgrade for Tammy, her humanoid soulmate. However, the results are not as expected. Tammy meets Anima, a fellow humanoid, setting in motion a series of events in a tango between the intangible sense of love, the harsh reality of possession, and the price of independence.

Based on true event, the story starts with Ka Chun (Chiu Sin Hang), an ordinary white-collar, storms the city by leaking over 3,000 photos of part-time-girlfriends (PTGF). After a series of unfortunate love, Ka Chun decides to seek relationships with PTGF and soon becomes a master on YouTube admired by thousands of netizens, namely “Score of 100”. A life turning point emerges when Ka Chun finds out that the girl Tsz Shun (Larine Tang) he has a crush on is also a PTGF. How would they overcome the hardship and survive in the cruel world of internet?

A producer convinces some young creators of horror props to set up a 'haunted house' and use it as a film set. The building is an old haunted film studio: 30 years earlier an actor in a clown costume went mad and killed himself and his lover in a fire. But by communicating with the ghosts, the kids discover that the real story of what happened is quite different... A passionate, vintage-styled homage to the Hong Kong horror comedies of yesteryear.

It's a love story between a Hong Kong girl and an Indian boy, set in Hong Kong. It encapsulates the drama of conflicts caused by racial discrimination as well as differences in social-cultural, lifestyle, and family values. At the same time, it combines the emotions of tears, joy, and humor with song and dance.

Story follows Guy and Heidi five years into their relationship and faced with a serious dilemma: Whether or not it is time to marry and form a family. They're equally in love, and their relationship is going strong. But while Heidi is ready to settle down and believes that marriage is proof of one’s everlasting love, Guy holds the belief that marrying Heidi will result in him being tied down to a woman that he will one day grow distant from. Heidi consults her girlfriends for advice, and Guy consults the guys. What follows is an outright battle of the sexes, as Heidi plots devious ways of getting pregnant—with marriage as an end goal—as quickly as possible, and Guy schemes up a handful of contraceptive counter-strategies.

Just when a middle-aged aspiring bus driver thinks she and her 7-year boyfriend are headed to the altar, she learns that he is involved with another woman. A year later, she receives invitation to their wedding banquet, where she accidentally foils the plan of that woman’s ex-boyfriend to reveal her as a cheater and a swindler. These two jilted lovers decide to join forces and come up with a plan to take revenge on the alleged con woman.

How much difference does one second make? Can it be the difference between life and death? A loser single father learns that lesson the hard way when he becomes gifted with the power of seeing one second into the future. When his ability is exposed, a boxing buff persuades him to use his power in the boxing ring. After reviving Hong Kong’s vampire genre as the co-director of Vampire Cleanup Department, Chiu Sin-hang (also the lead vocalist of local band ToNick) combines the boxing genre with a refreshing dash of fantasia in his thrilling solo directorial effort.

30대 중반의 퐁은 오랜 연인이자 웨딩사진작가인 에드워드와 오래된 만큼 복잡한 관계를 이어가고 있다. 결혼을 앞둔 사람들이 주로 찾는 홍콩 프린스 에드워드역 인근에 있는 골든 플라자를 배경으로, 결혼식을 준비하는 퐁의 고군분투를 통해 결혼과 행복의 의미를 현실감 있게 담아낸 영화. 홍콩영화개발펀드가 론칭한 신인감독 장편지원프로그램에 선정된 첫 번째 프로젝트이자 TV드라마작가로 활동하던 노리스 웡의 데뷔작으로, 금마장영화제를 통해 큰 주목을 받았다.

One day, young finance whiz Finn meets happy-go-lucky girl Bo by chance. Though they live in different worlds, fate keeps pulling them together. Soon, the Prince Charming and Cinderella-esque pair embark on a grand romantic adventure.

아버지가 세상을 떠난 후, 홍콩에 사는 딸 루수는 대만과 중국에 지금껏 있는 줄도 몰랐던 이복자매들이 있다는 사실을 알게 된다. 아버지가 남긴 빚을 갚기 위해 그녀는 자매들과 함께 아버지의 마라탕 식당을 운영하기로 한다. 대만에 살던 동생은 엄마와의 관계에 시달리고, 중국에서 온 패셔니스타 동생은 결혼하라는 할머니의 압박을 피하려 애쓴다. 한편 루수는 새로운 관계를 시작하기 위해 전 남자친구와 관계를 끊어 내고자 노력한다.

Lo Man Tat is a short-term contract teacher in Ma Sau College who barely manages to keep his job after five years of dealing with under-achieving students to scrape a living, constantly being alienated by his colleagues and dressed-down by his superiors. Making matters worse for him is newly-appointed Principal Leung who has introduced a strict evaluation system in which contract teachers who underperform will face elimination. How will Mr Lo and his students rise up to the challenge?

세상이 말하는 행복한 삶의 조건을 하나하나 채워 나가던 시우만. 남부럽지 않은 직업, 스펙 좋은 남자와 결혼까지, 모든 것이 완벽할 것만 같았다. 그러나 첫날밤(初夜)… 성적 관계에 대한 두려움은 첫날밤부터 남편과의 사이를 갈라 놓는다. 결혼 생활도, 직장 생활도 뜻대로 되지 않던 시우만은 열정적인 셰프 지아하오와의 진정한 첫날밤을 통해 억압 받았던 식욕과 성욕을 온전한 자신의 것으로 찾아간다.

어느 날 밤, 남자에게 걸려온 전화 한통. 바로 그의 어릴 적 친구가 죽었다는 비보였다. 동창생의 죽음은 중년 남성의 삶을 바꾸는 신호탄이 된다.

The financial analysis of a Chinese IT firm has been stolen, and a senior executive at the investment bank that wrote it must pay a ransom before the confidential report is released to the public. However, eyebrows are raised when the thieves ask for a surprisingly low amount for the ransom. What are the thieves really after?

편견과 낙인 때문에 일반학교로 이직을 못하고 있는 특수학교 음악교사 츠이, 일류 학교에서 뒤처지며 대학입시 때문에 고민하는 학생 조이, 매일 빈둥거리며 3등급 학교에 다니는 반항 청소년 카호의 이야기이다. 음악공연 지도를 맡게 된 츠이는 업무와 사생활 사이에서 줄타기를 하는 동시에 꾹 참고 공연을 진행하게 생겼다. 조이는 높은 성적을 위해 방과 후 음악활동에 자원하고, 카호는 퇴학을 당하지 않으려면 어느 특수학교의 뮤지컬을 보러 가야 한다. 아무 의미가 없다고 생각한 뮤지컬에 참여하게 된 세 사람은 꿈과 목표를 찾는 자아탐구의 여정을 떠나게 되는데… (2018년 제14회 제천국제음악영화제)

Four telecom employees begrudgingly join the company’s dragon boat team to help keep them immune from encroaching layoffs only to discover themselves.

포기하기엔 어리고 도전하기엔 너무 커버린 스물 아홉, 그리고, 반길수도 밀어낼 수도 없는 ‘곧’ 서른. 폭풍 커리어, 꽤 예쁜 외모, 번듯한 직장, 안정적인 연애. 근데, ‘서른’이 여자의 ‘끝’이라고? 아니, 내가 괜찮다는데! 왜 늬들이 지X이야?! …잠깐, 근데 나 정말 괜찮은 거 맞지? 29+1 냉정과 열정 사이에 선 너무 다른 두 여자, 과연 곧 다가올 우리의 서른은 안녕할 수 있을까?

After a bar brawl with an off-duty cop, aspiring thug Fan (Neo Yau, Fire Lee’s gonzo Robbery) is sentenced to three months in juvenile detention like Hong Kong’s Sha Tsui Detention Center, which practices military-style rehabilitation. Insults and abuse are core tenets of the treatment, carried out by the bored, jaded staff, where an occasional true believer lingers among the guards...

The average person’s head has up to 100,000 hairs. Each strand may be unique in length and texture but they are said to bear our memories of sorrow and worry. Neighbors come to the old shop “Barber’s Time” to part with both their hair and bad memories. Although Cantonese style haircutting is on the slippery slope to extinction, barber shop owner Hoi-chuen wishes for his son Cheung-fat to manage the shop. Aspiring to be a writer like J. D. Salinger instead, Cheung-fat takes over “Barber’s Time” when his father had an accident. Just like his father, Cheung-fat develops rapport with the customers and provides guidance. His own life also turns around when a runaway girl comes to the shop. A magical heartwarming tale of community support and kindness, the short features Kaki Shum from the film “Weeds of Fire”.

They are frozen in place, stagnating without any direction. Around them, things change rapidly.

80년대 홍콩 최초의 청소년 아구팀의 이야기를 다룬 드라마

“Ambivalence means… nothing has happened, but you remember everything.” Another coming-of-age story about youngsters who are always desperate for but also afraid of falling in love, director Heiward Mak (High Noon, Ex, Diva) continues to examine the ambivalence of youthful love like an autopsy in this episodic adventure among a group of twenty-something. These characters might be a bunch of losers in love who are searching for self-esteem and recognition, but what make these intertwining tales relevant today are not just the pain and longing, but also the bittersweet memories and emotional growth of Hong Kong’s post-90s generation.

꿈에 취해 현실을 보지 못하는 여성, 폐교에서의 소름 끼치는 숨바꼭질, 그리고 우산에 얽힌 기괴한 사연. 이 세 가지 이야기가 도시 속 생생한 괴담의 세계를 담아낸다. 이승과 저승, 인간과 귀신이 어우러진 섬뜩한 공포 영화.

When an accident temporarily robs her of her voice, Diva J flees to a small deserted village to heal both her mental and physical wounds. Her life changes when she meets and falls in love with the blind Hu Ming, who inspires her to make a comeback. But, in her absence, a new diva has risen. R has become an overnight sensation that everyone sees as the main contender for J's crown. Yet, their successes have come at a high price. J is secretly pining for a forbidden love that seems destined to wither, and R has found that the road to stardom is littered with estranged friends and painful break-ups. But in the midst of this, both divas rise to find their own voice.

High Noon was Sham Ka-ki's breakthrough in acting. At the age of eighteen, he directed his debut documentary short film, Life Must Go On. The film documents and exudes the joy of youth through cinematic images that observe Sham’s surroundings and his quotidian life in a stiff housing estate. In this short film, he questions the meaning of life, but finds answers to and proof of happiness from friends and family.

High Noon was Sham Ka-ki's breakthrough in acting. At the age of eighteen, he directed his debut documentary short film, Life Must Go On. The film documents and exudes the joy of youth through cinematic images that observe Sham’s surroundings and his quotidian life in a stiff housing estate. In this short film, he questions the meaning of life, but finds answers to and proof of happiness from friends and family.

The Hong Kong chapter of Eric Tsang's "Growing-up Trilogy" bears testimony to the saying: "The kindness of the gods is manifested in allowing young people to embark on life unprepared." Heiward Mak, the 23-year-old director whom people in the inner circle repute to be the next shining star of Hong Kong cinema, crafts a string of vignettes about seven young people about to sit for a major public exam. Clever, humorous, angry and dangerous, this is the Cruel Stories of Youth for the Me Generation of this century of globalization and mediocrity