The 30th ifva Awards
Youth Group Finalist Showcase
I’m LATE?!?!
Astraeus Ho
Hong Kong / 01'12'' / No Dialogue and Subtitles
A one minute short film where the main character finds themselves late for school.
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I’m LATE?!?!
Astraeus Ho
Feel My Empty Soul
Nicole Wong
Hong Kong / 15'24'' / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
At forty, social worker Chan Sing Hei has had his passion eroded by the relentless grind of reality. In a carpark, he meets Hei, a sixteen-year-old clutching a bunch of keys, stubbornly searching for a "nonexistent exit" he believes it will bring freedom...
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Feel My Empty Soul
Nicole Wong
Shadow
Chung Ka Ka
Hong Kong / 06'10'' / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
On an ordinary school day, Yin skips class to look for Hei, who is resting at home, in order to confide in him about his own delusions.
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Shadow
Chung Ka Ka
Nurture
Kyra Lam
Hong Kong / 13'45'' / In Cantonese, English, Indonesian with Chinese and English subtitles
When a global pandemic shuts Hong Kong’s borders, hundreds of thousands of foreign domestic workers are stranded far from home. Among them is Sonia, a strong-willed Indonesian domestic worker whose world is shattered when she learns that her mother has died. Unable to return home, she takes it upon herself to organize the funeral from afar, piecing together a final farewell through a livestream thousands of miles away...
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Nurture
Kyra Lam
Golden Haze
Ashley Kwok
Hong Kong / 11'00'' / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
"What I’ve always been chasing after, was not more than a thin layer of Golden Haze. However, I have never once realised, what lies beyond the shining mirage."
A top student, haunted by the pressure to succeed, finds her rigid equilibrium disrupted when she stumbles into unexpected journeys and quiet moments of self realisation through external circumstances...
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Golden Haze
Ashley Kwok
