The film has earned recognition at the 60th Golden Horse Awards for Best New Director and the Audience Choice Award, and its box office has just hit HKD 26 million in Hong Kong. It tackles the sensitive issues of student suicides in Hong Kong and prevailing family traumas. “Time Still Turns the Pages” is a deeply resonant work exploring family, trauma, and mental health.
Read MoreThe film that has swept Hong Kong’s box offices, and is making an impact as it tours in various film festivals, is arriving in North America! While the screenplay is based on a local story, the themes and emotions of this riveting film are relevant to any community in the world right now: journalism, aging, housing, caring for those in need, and maintaining hope and truth are all under constant threat.
Read MoreDiscover the cinematic magic of Hong Kong cinema in Montreal as we recap the 'Making Waves - Navigators of Hong Kong Cinema' festival. Renowned directors and actors, engaging Q&A sessions, and the allure of six captivating films: Over My Dead Body《死屍死時四十四》, Lonely Eighteen《我們的十八歲》, In Broad Daylight《白日之下》, Deliverance《源生罪》, Lost Love《流水落花》, and The Narrow Road《窄路微塵》marked this unique event.
Read MoreMy Heavenly City explores what a heavenly city is through the lens of the relationships between parents and child, husband and wife, and a caregiver for a child with mental illness. This movie is for anyone dealing with life’s challenges, trials and tribulations. Its objective is to encourage audiences watching the movie to reflect and grow.
Read MoreCan one stray from the path paved by fate? When a deranged fortune teller crosses path with a born psychopath who is destined to commit murder, the fortune teller uses every trick in feng shui and metaphysics to change fate. What is the price to pay for defying the forces of destiny?
一切皆是命, 半點不由人？喪心嗜血青年遇上命理病狂, 一場對抗天命的命案隨即展開, 風水術數、中西玄學, 以劫解劫, 以毒攻毒, 每一着終究是人定勝天還是命運使然, 逆天而行的後果又會否不堪設想？
Read MoreThe movie looks into how a couple rediscovers the feeling of parenthood by fostering children aVer the painful loss of their own child. A married couple, Chan Tin Mei (Sammi) and Ho Bun (Alan), lost their three-year-old son to a congenital heart disease. S,ll in pain over the loss, Mei resists having another child. One day, Mei finds out that they can become a foster family. Her desolate heart finds sustenance from possibly regaining the feeling of being a mother.
Read MoreFor 4 years, Cheuk crossed the globe, travelling to 13 countries, venturing behind kitchen doors to feature the journeys of 15 émigrés he found in each place. From Madagascar to Israel, from Brazil to South Africa, the real-life stories he uncovered along the way were more riveting than any work of fiction could ever be. Some were running from war, many from political oppression, a few from religious persecution; some were highly educated; some were farmers — yet all were forced to pick up a wok and a spatula — not because they loved Chinese food, but out of necessity.
Read MoreThe stars were out on the red carpet at the Hong Kong Culture Centre on April 16th to celebrate the victorious year of Hong Kong Films and films in Asia that we just witnessed. In Canada and North America, there has been a noticeable surge in interest in Asian films which have placed them into official theatre box offices across the country. Throughout the last two decades, there have been films playing now and then at select theatres such as Cineplex, but it was a sparse trend and sometimes films were only shown at a specific single location such as in Markham, where there is a large Asian population.
Read MoreRemembering Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and his music for the film The Last Emperor. A reflective piece that ties into the inspirational year that Fete Chinoise platform started.
Read MoreIt has been a big week for many Asian actors around the world as awards season wraps up. The same weekend that Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian person to win the Best Actress Award at the Academy Awards, Ke Huy Quan winning Best Supporting Actor, and Everything Everywhere All at Once winning Best Picture, across the ocean, the Asian Film Awards took place in Hong Kong. Acting Legend Tony Leung was honoured with Best Actor for his portrayal of Nam Kong (one of the four great sergeants of the 1960s) in Director Philip Yung's Where the Wind Blows.
Read More‘Meng’ is the Chinese word for ‘dream’ and ‘Er’ means ‘child.’ Meng’er Zhang’s Chinese name could be seen as a self-fulfilling prophecy, for this Hollywood star has already realized so much of what most can only dream of. With a playful childlikeness and lack of pretension that melts the hearts of everyone she meets… …
Read More"Everything has led to this." This is the quote and billboard image of the year it seems... and has been widely shared by Jamie Lee Curtis on social media several times recently with all the victories and shiny hardware that the film Everything, Everywhere All at One is taking home!
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