Offer is available for booking Festival Programme via "Advance Booking Form" on or before 6pm on 1 February 2018 (Thu). You can enjoy 20% discount (HK$52) for each purchase of ticket at standard price (HK$65). Tickets are available on a first-come-first-served basis.

Programme 1 | 9/3 (Fri) | 7:45pm | Hong Kong Arts Centre Cinema | Hong Kong | 113’ | HK$ 65/35* | With after-screening discussion

Programme 2 | 10/3 (Sat) | 7:45pm | Hong Kong Arts Centre Cinema | Hong Kong | 114’ | HK$ 65/35* | With after-screening discussion


Everyone has his or her own story. We have those marginalised, those oppressed, those aspiring for future, those flying high and diving deep for their own beliefs… But no matter how much you yearn for the outside world, you still need to face your inner self, with utmost honesty.

10/3 (Sat) | 3:30pm | Hong Kong Arts Centre Cinema | Hong Kong | 54’ | HK$ 65/35* | With after-screening discussion

Hong Kong youths bid farewell to their carefree childhood perhaps a little too early. Studies, exams and their own pursuits outside the academics bring about stress as intense as those adults are facing. First-hand experience in issues about family, romance, death… are all hastening their coming-of-age.

17/3 (Sat) | 2:00pm | Hong Kong Arts Centre Cinema | Hong Kong | 69’ | HK$ 65/35* | With after-screening discussion

For the first time the Animation Category of the ifva Awards accepts entries from all over Asia, resulting in an unprecedented diversity: from imaginative fictions to real-life stories about family and society, from abstract to concrete, from ancient setting to modern context… All different contents and forms offer an animated world that blends the real and the imagined.

16/3 (Fri) | 7:15pm | Hong Kong Arts Centre Cinema | Hong Kong | 180’ | HK$ 65/35* | With after-screening discussion

Film as a world language, a clear message delivered by the ten entries of this year’s Asian New Force Category. From the empowerment and daily life of foreign workers in Taiwan, to the two works about (un)heard voices as metaphors from Thai and Lebanon directors, and followed by two very unusual cross-species relationships from Japan… Films now not only serve as the medium for stories, but also the medium for issues that worth our attention beyond different boundaries.

6/3 (Tue) - 20/3 (Tue) | 12nn-8pm | Pao Galleries | Free Admission

Starting from personal perceptions, identities and experiences, or departing from the natural or urban environment, or touching upon the topical Fin-Tech, or going back to the nature of a certain medium with a thorough understanding thereof… Familiar issues are defamiliarised by media, and artists push the boundaries of media through never-before attempt.