Hong Kong Baptist University Academy of Film

Japanese band Aomori Hensou is the only thing that makes Mei Bo feels alive in this mundane city until she meets Lily, her new neighbour. It happens that Lily is also a huge fan of the band so they start to get along with each other like twin sisters. They wander around the city, from second-hand CD shops, to goldfish market, and other secret spots that nobody knows. Lily eventually gets tired of the excitement from Mei Bo and starts exploring the city on her own. One day Lily appears at the door of Mei Bo’s home together with the news of the break up announcement of their favourite band, but there is only an empty room left in front of her.

In Lei Gu Town in Sichuan, Xu who lost his wife during the 2008 earthquake is ready to get married again. His hesitation arises when he sees that his teenage daughter Shan is not yet ready to move on. Shan goes for a walk to landslide dam for a moment of solitude. The dam was formed when landslide debris fell and destroyed a whole village. It is an aftermath of the quake, yet it is at the same time a beautiful scenery. Perhaps not all things brought by a disaster are negative, Shan wonders.

A beautifully shot film tours you around the peaceful Kwu Tung, with a hint of sadness and helplessness. The story takes place in the near future when the North East New Territories New Development Plan soon starts, with a few residents still reluctant to leave their home. Vani’s grandfather suffering from Alzheimer's disease is one of them. She goes to visit him with a hidden agenda – to find the land deed and hopefully help him move to a new home. However, the more she digs into the past, the more she finds out about the “undisclosed facts”. Lun Fung Temple is not only an icon of protection to the village, but also a key to the mysteries.

Ho Bor, a former boxing champion is trying to regain his own place as a contender.

The night when Ling almost get killed leaves her with the supernatural power – the power to witness the counting down of every single life around her, from years, days, minutes to the last second. Betrayed by friends, emotionally abandoned by blood-tied mother, she at the same time realises that there is only two days left for her. Ling decides to wait for her last moment alone on the rooftop where she encounters a man who attempts to kill himself. A series of happenings teaches Ling on life, friendship and death, a lesson which may be a little bit too late to learn.

If existence precedes essence, then everything is meaningless. “Perceive as you see, believe not what you perceive, then accept what you see as they are.” A girl who died is reborn without memory and embarks on a journey to explore the meaning of life.

It is always a lesson on communication between father and son, especially when they are having different points of view on life and death. Hung Fat raises up his son by running his coffin shop. However, his son Chun Wai is a doctor. They are detached to each other. Chun Wai does not understand why his father is so insisted to maintain the old shop. Until one day, Chun Wai inherits the coffin shop, then he understands the important of the shop to the neighbourhood. No matter how the society and environment changes, the meaning of life and death is the eternal lesson which we all have to understand.

Shenyang, in deep winter snow. Two promising 12-year-old Beijing opera students, Dong (‘winter’ in Chinese) and Nuannuan (literally meaning ‘warmth’) are practising their stage moves diligently and fervently in order to secure their place in an upcoming performance in the capital. Nuannuan has a crush on Dong but Dong is lost in a daze – of a muted longing for his dead mother and a nameless affection for the girl’s young aunt – which unfolds in the juxtaposing scenes of a lone balloon drifting away and a colourful kite soaring into the sky. The train is soon to leave for Beijing, a fond farewell has been bided. Dong has to make his journey, with or without Nuannuan.

Mainland student Yi Yao comes to study in this busy city. Before her roommate arrives, she is all alone staying in a rented apartment of an old tenement building. Unfamiliar with everything, she tries hard to explore around only finding that the neighbours are noisy, weird and unhelpful; especially after the man living opposite to her getting killed. Being hungry and helpless, she locks up herself in the flat and acts strangely. Can anyone help her? Through a series of mysteries, social issues like Mainland students flocking to Hong Kong, overcrowding living area and indifferent neighbours are covered in the short film.

A young girl who is a victim of deep-faked porn meets a wage slave young man who creates virtual lover "Angel A" – a budding love story of two lonely souls caught between illusion and reality.

Married secondary school teacher Hei Man appears to have a happy marriage which merely is a broken dream. Being a victim of domestic and sexual violence, her emotions are reaching their tipping point with nowhere to explode. One day she encounters Chun Heng, a student whose only indulgence is making his own art pieces. Attracted by his passion for art, Hei Man seduces him to develop a sexual relationship with her. He completely falls for Hei Man, while she is only replaying all torture tricks which she suffers in her marriage on him. Chun Heng is desperate for her love, so he makes a decision that would change both their lives.

Arisa, a female A.I. programmed by Yosuke, was actualised accidentally. Arisa knows that Yosuke turns into a coward when facing Yuki, the classmate he fancies, so she makes plans for him. Arisa is infected with computer virus and Yosuke fails to recover, so he decides to accomplish his love battle with his own hand.

An ordinary middle-aged man accidentally finds a "door of will" that leads him into a dream world, and he travels into the dreams of citizens of this world. He gradually discovers that he is actually a warrior, fighting on behalf of these citizens against the lord of dark and retrieving seeds of their dreams.

Jinzi wins a huge cash prize, yet loses everything in the process.

The conflicts between two generations, between the urban and the rural are intensively examined. When a grandfather and his grandchild experience loss concurrently, they realize the older generation’s protection of the ancestral land and the youth’s defense of the city are cut from the same cloth. Decades have passed, but the people of Hong Kong still do not have an answer for their rootlessness.

The film tells the story of a friendship between a girl, Jane, and a boy, Mike, who wander around an arcade in an urban village, fighting together against the worries of growing up in a depressing environment.

A film student channels feelings for his roommate into a romance screenplay, but as fantasy and reality blur, he confronts imagination’s limits and emotional cost.

Xiaojing, a bright 16-year-old girl, longs to escape her small town and suffocating home, develops a fascination for Yixin—a stylish, intelligent tutor who returns from the big city after losing her job.

After her mother went to Hong Kong to work, the little girl Jin Ling lived with her mother-in-law and brother in a rural area of Guangdong. Her mother rarely appeared in the screen, but she seemed to “fill” Jin Ling’s life.

Ma and his friends trace a sea monster from a fairy tale they heard on the floating island.