Programme 9:
Stunning Creativity and Fantasy
12/3 (Thu) | 114’ | 7:30pm | agnès b. CINEMA (Upper Basement, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai)
Free Admission | With after-screening discussion

我愛水龍頭

Wong Ching-po / Col / 43’00” / In Cantonese with no subtitles
The 3rd ifva Awards – Drama Category Gold Award
 

At the age of electronic gadgets, people get lost in the cyber media. They place their trust in objects around them but pull away from human beings at the same time. She is indulged in water tab to an extent that she’d rather trade the whole world for the tab.

The Hole

Leong Suet-yan Cherry / Col / 2’47” / No dialogue and subtitles
The 13th ifva Awards – Animation Category Gold Award
 

Once upon a time, Big Eye discovers a hole in the sky. He is curious about what lies behind this hole, but most people just do not care. Someone says it is a dangerous place. Someone says it is where God lives. Someone says it is a wonderland. Eventually Big Eye decides to go to this mysterious place to find the real answer…

The Colour is Green

Au Wah-hei, Lee Wing-cheung / Col / 15’00” / In Cantonese with no subtitles
The 3rd ifva Awards – Youth Category Gold Award

It all started with a chance encounter at the beach. People and things keep shifting, changing in time, the only constant is the necklace…Also, the green world of youth, wonder and hope!

Nightmare

Cheung Ka-to, Law Wai-lok / Col / 10’00” / No dialogue and subtitles
The 9th ifva Awards – Youth Category Gold Award
 

We cannot leave this world with worldly treasure. Only nightmares follow us. Awakened from a nightmare, a high school student encounters a series of terrible incidents. The directors have borrowed a lot of ingredients from mainstream horrors. Manipulating these essentials, this independent video is tailored. From the plot to details, as well as in the sound effects, we can see many familiar elements.

The Window

Tsang Fung-chi Kevin / Col / 5’00” / No dialogue and subtitles
The 4th ifva Awards – Grand Prize, Animation Category Gold Award 

How to escape the world in which imaginations are being prohibited?

Panic In Short Film

Lai Kin-ho Ronald / Col / 16’30” / In Cantonese with no subtitles
The 7th ifva Awards – Youth Category Gold Award
 

The main character has morbid fear of cockroaches. Whenever he sees them, he is thrown into agony and has to flee. This time, facing again his greatest feat, he vows to overcome it. However, in his inner battle to free himself, he stumbles against a wall: his runaway imagination.

The 8th

Jervis Suen / Col / 21’40” / In Cantonese with English subtitles
The 11th ifva Awards – Open Category Gold Award
 

Creation of the world took GOD six days. In the 7th day, Adam and Eve were given birth to live in a paradise on earth however it did not end there. So in the 8th day, GOD created LOVE to salvage the humanity