Date: 12 May 2018 (Sat)
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Edinburgh Place, Central
（Map: https://goo.gl/maps/RWq1HFz4v6Q2）

Free admission, you are welcome to bring your own mats.

Within Within

Sharon Liu
3′ 29" / In English with Chinese and English subtitles

“There are many things we cannot choose in life, no one can choose their parents. You have to learn to love them before knowing them.”
My graduation film is about my personal feelings to Hong Kong and its complicated relationship with China. It expresses what I really want to say and feel at the age of 23, that I love not just my birth place Hong Kong but my country as well.

17th ifva Awards Animation Category Gold Award

To Liv(e)

Evans Chan
Hong Kong / 1992 / Col / 106’ / In Cantonese and English with Chinese and English subtitles
Cast: Lindzay Chan, Josephine Koo, Anthony Wong

Of Evans Chan’s directorial debut, long considered an underground classic, The Hollywood Reporter wrote: “To Liv(e) was inspired by actress Liv Ullmann’s 1990 visit to Hong Kong, where she decried the forced deportation of Vietnamese refugees. This, coupled with the Tiananmen Square crackdown the year before, contributes to a dark cloud of apprehension over the British colony… With a painter's eye in capturing the bohemian fringe of the Hong Kong art scene, and the mature voice of a seasoned filmmaker, Chan examines love, family, and the fate of Hong Kong, and the culture clash between East and West with equal depth and assurance.”

Best Actress & Best Supporting Actress Award, 29th Taiwan Golden Horse Awards
Best Actress Award, Portugal Sinatra Festival 1991
Special Jury Prize, Singapore Film Festival 1991

Hong Kong’s grassroots often take centre stage in Fruit Chan’s films, from the “1997 Trilogy” to The Midnight After. Urban spaces, inhabited by these people, appears as if a character in his films. The latest edition of Jockey Club ifva Everywhere – People Cinema, which always bring alternative cinematic experiences in public spaces, will be screening Fruit Chan’s Little Cheung in Tamar Park. Enjoy a film filled with Hong Kong sentiment facing the Victoria Harbour, which is also iconic to Hong Kong.

DATE : 2 Mar 2018 (Fri)
TIME : 7:30pm
VENUE : Tamar Park (MTR Admiralty Station Exit A)
（Map: https://goo.gl/maps/qgMUoKcdaeN2）

Free admission, you are welcome to bring your own mats.

Little Cheung

Fruit Chan
Hong Kong / 1999 / Col / 118’ / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles

The eight-year-old Little Cheung often delivers takeaway for his family’s restaurant, and gets along so well with customers from all walks of life. Ah Fan, an illegal immigrant of the same age as Cheung, is declined for job at the restaurant, but Cheung befriends her. The two kids start their urban adventure from Hong Kong’s old district to Tsim Sha Tsui. Cheung runs away from family after he was punished for asking about his lost brother, and Ah Fan faces deportation owing her illegal status…

Little Cheung is the final episode of director Fruit Chan’s “1997 Trilogy”, and is also his love letter to Hong Kong. In the film, Cheung and Ah Fan shout to the harbour off Tsim Sha Tsui, “Hong Kong is ours!” Twenty years later, when we, in Tamar Park, hear their voices uttered from right across the Victoria Harbour, will we have an epiphany about our city?

Silver Leopard, 53rd Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
Best Original Screenplay, 37th Golden Horse Awards, Taiwan
Seven Nominations, 19th Hong Kong Film Awards

“City Memories”

Ngau Tau Kok industrial district, busy traffic and people in daylight, is conquered by young souls with indie music in the air at night. A hit-and-run robbery at the Sha Tin Shing Mun Riverfront prior the sharing bike boom, turns out to be a prelude for a pathetic youth from the Northern district. Before sunset, three unusual brothers and sister are having their happy moments at the yet jolly and lively Sai Wan Swimming Shed and Sai Wan Pier. While films depict city lives, streets record daily routines. Who would have expected that films would serve as the ultimate record for our disappearing cityscape? Three groups of young local creative talents tell three different Hong Kong stories. Join us under the starlight at Wood Road, witness the unique local landscape composed by the liveliness of ordinary Hong Kong people.

DATE : 27 Jan 2018 (Sat)
TIME : 7:30pm
VENUE : Wood Road, Wan Chai (staircase next to St. Joseph's Primary School)

Free admission, you are welcome to bring your own mats.

Let’s Leave Together
(The 21st ifva Awards Open Category – Jury Recommendation)
Lau Sai-wing / Col / 15' 09"/ In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles

A rendezvous at midnight Ngau Tau Kok, the ringtone of My Little Airport brings two people together. They talk and walk, and come up with the idea of traveling together. It is the mundane happenings which tears them apart. Leaving the city could be both an escape and a solution.

iPhone Thieves
(The 21st ifva Awards Open Category – Jury Recommendation)
Wong Chi-pong Louis / Col / 25' 00" / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles

The iPhone thief just robbed an old man yet, the thief, with his quiet angst and look of desperation, feels like a victim himself in this sordid look at the underbelly of the city. Both guilt-ridden over the robbery and desperate for money, the thief is sinking fast into the quicksand of treachery when being lured into smuggling iPhones across the border with tragic outcome.

Fish in Puddle
(The 22nd ifva Awards Open Category – Special Mention)
Wong Suk-nga / Col / 18' 30" / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles

A story about mutual dependence and love. 15-year-old Wing lives with two foster siblings in an old lady’s apartment. To reunite with his father, Wing saves money by all means. Likewise, Wing’s brother believes in returning to his mother’s shelter while Wing’s elder sister, who has mild intellectual disability, feels distant relating to her own parents.

DATE : 4 November 2017 (Sat)
TIME : 7:30pm
VENUE : Edinburgh Place, Central

Free admission

Ordinary Heroes (1999/128’/ In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitle)

Director: Ann Hui
Cast: Lee Kang-sheng, Anthony Wong Chau-sang, Rachel Lee Lai-chun, Tse Kwan-ho

Synopsis:
Tung takes care of Sow, the woman whom he falls in love with, and helps her to recall her lost memories: losing her entire family in a catastrophic fire at the Yau Ma Tei Typhoon Shelter, her childhood friends Tung, Father Kam etc, and, Yau, a man whom her affection totally belongs to but also the man who gives all forlornness to her......

This time, Jockey Club ifva Everywhere-People Cinema will be held at Edinburgh Place, letting the audience to get back to the original site of the Queen’s Pier, experiencing what the characters fought for in the past. To show her caring for the society, Director Ann Hui filmed Ordinary Heroes in 1999 to record the life and despair of Hong Kong people in the 70s and 80s. As said by Father Kam in the film, “People who suffer must strive to make themselves stronger. Though there is not much we can fight for, at least I can show them my support and my confidence in them.” Being in a place bearing such an important history of Hong Kong, as audience, how can we respond to what we are facing now?

19th Hong Kong Film Awards (Best Film)
36th The Golden Horse Awards (Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Leading Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Makeup & Costume Design).

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