Chu Pak-Him

Perhaps we form our likings later in life, whereas our childhood memories shape what makes us feel at home. Yuan moves to Hong Kong with her mother from Hunan at the age of eight to reunite with her father. Everything in the city is dazzling and new to her. However, the family faces poverty and language barriers. Worse yet, her father, who is a drug addict, is temperamental and is often sent to prison, causing him to disappear from the family for long periods of time. This certainly is not the dream home Yuan has been looking forward to. All she wants is her younger sister to be reunited with them as soon as possible. Out of fear, the sisters try to please their father in their early years, but as soon as they reach adolescence, they start to resist and escape from him. However, even after they grow up and move away from him, Yuan realises that all the people she loves and treasures turn out to resemble her father in her childhood memories.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, an owner of a cleaning company meets a young mother and her daughter. Would their encounter save each other during the recession of Hong Kong's economy?

Adapted from a sensational real-life case in 2013, the intricate story begins when a young man partners with his friend to murder and dismember his parents. Pleading not guilty, the defense attorneys soon turn on each other, as the defendants play the devil and idiot game. Meanwhile, heated debates emerge inside the jury room, where nine jurors grapple with the truth.

When her “midnight gymnasium” program for wayward teens is under the threat of being defunded, social worker Yanki puts together a dodgeball team to save it. With the help of an unemployed, has-been star jock as the coach, the motley crew of teen girls learn that dodging from their problems can work temporarily, but they must learn to eventually stand back up and overcome their challenges.

Jointly presented by Hong Kong’s four renowned film companies - Sil-Metropole Organization, Emperor Motion Pictures, Media Asia Film and One Cool Film Production - Look Up is a Sil-Metropole Organization production produced by John Chong and co-directed by young filmmakers Daniel Chan, Tim Poon, Elvis Hau and Sunny Yip. The film runs through four Hong Kong Stories from 1997 to the present, to detail the days we have passed through these years.

One day, the Kowloon Emperor TSANG Man-choi pays a visit to OR Siu-yat, his guard dog of previous life and a current staff of the Community Improvement Bureau, with an incredible story and request. According to TSANG, the Bureau’s plan to redevelop To Kwa Wan will destroy an ancient seal and unleash a vengeful evil spirit, Princess Kwong Tak, who was murdered by TSANG’s ancestor 400 years ago. To save themselves OR must assist TSANG to destroy the evil spirit. In this rare gem of a martial arts/fantasy short film, the impossible battle between human and spirit is playfully visualised.

홍콩 국적의 영국군 군인이던 관차오는, 홍콩이 중국에 반환되면서 강제 전역을 하게 된다. 관차오는 전역 후 홍콩의 폭력조직에 가입해 생계를 잇지만, 경기불황으로 수입이 없는 데다 거액의 빚까지 있어 빈곤한 생활을 한다. 어느 날, 남아시아 출신의 만니가 조폭들을 피해 달아나다 우연히 관차오의 집에 숨어들고, 관차오는 돈을 받는 대가로 만니를 집에 숨겨준다. 만니는 관차오가 빚에 허덕이는 모습을 보고 자신이 가지고 있던 마약을 주며 빚을 갚으라고 하는데...

Ms Chan, a social worker who has just returned to work, receives her first case. She pays a visit to Jia, a single elderly who seems to have accidentally dialled the Care-on-Call Service. Jia has suspicious bruises on his face and Ms. Chan senses a possible family abuse situation. However, Jia’s attitude is unwelcoming and he sends her off right away. Since then, a series of peculiar events make Ms. Chan question her own sense of reality and sanity.

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?

홍콩 도심 곳곳에 나타난 원인불명의 좀비 떼. 사람들에게 무차별적으로 달려드는 좀비들로 인해 도시는 순식간에 아수라장으로 변한다. 평소 히어로를 꿈꾸던 열혈 청년 ‘산룽’과 ‘즈랑’은 생존율 0%, 사면초가의 상황에서 각자의 무기를 챙겨 필사의 사투를 준비하는데…