With the Victoria Harbour as the backdrop, the Jockey Club ifva Everywhere People’s Cinema – Open-air Screening will be presenting Father and Son directed by Allen Fong. The film depicts the daily happenings between father and son, and with its delicate and down-to-earth style, won him Best Picture and Best Director at the 1st Hong Kong Film Awards. Snacks will be provided and local indie band New Youth Barbershop is invited to perform before the screening.

Date: 4 December 2015 (Fri)
Time: 8:15 pm
Venue: Hong Kong Cultural Centre Piazza

Father and Son
1981 / colour / In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles / 93'00"
Director: Allen Fong
Synoosis: Law San-muk lives in a wooden squatter area with his family of seven. He works as a clerk in a business house, and is often bullied because he was uneducated. Therefore he does whatever he can to nurture his only son Ka-hing, hoping that he could mobilise upward in the society. However, Ka-hing is only fascinated by cinema, and eventually is kicked out of school, which makes his father furious, unsurprisingly. One day Ka-hing meets orphan Ng Siu-chung, and finds that they share the passion for cinema, so he invites Ka-hing to make experimental films at home…


Allen Fong, like other Hong Kong New Wave Cinema directors Johnny To, Tsui Hark and Ann Hui, started his career with making TV programmes before switching to film. He directed a few episodes of Below the Lion Rock for RTHK, and Father and Son (1981) was his directorial debut for the big screen. The film depicts the daily happenings between father and son, and with its delicate and down-to-earth style, won him Best Picture and Best Director at the 1st Hong Kong Film Awards. Allen Fong is especially good at illustrating the proximity of characters situated in a modern society. A film expressing his own genuine concern for humanity, Father and Son appears to ifva as an obvious choice for the inaugural screening of People’s Cinema.

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