Hong Kong Shorts
This theme block brings together films that cast an anachronistic light on the city of Hong Kong during its transitional phase between two regimes and cultures.
In Free to Choose (2023) by Bahar Noorizadeh, a businessman travels to the year 2047 to borrow money from his older self in a desperate attempt to save his company during the 1997 financial crisis. Room 404 (2024) by Elysa Wendi and Wai Shing Lee is set in a Hong Kong hotel room where time seems mysteriously suspended. In An Asian Ghost Story (2023), Bo Wang explores the peculiar history of the hair trade in Hong Kong during the Cold War.
- 15 September
- 12:45
- Kijkhuis, Cinema 2
A speculative sci-fi journey through neoliberalism’s promises and failures, where time travel becomes a metaphor for credit, access, and the cost of economic freedom.
A haunting meditation on Hong Kong’s role in Cold War trade, where human hair becomes a ghostly link between imperial histories, migration, and spectral memory.
ERROR: ROOM 404 A POTENTIAL THREAT – the courage and doubt of artists continuing to create in uncertain times, resisting the rising media control in Hong Kong.
