Genre - Independent/Experimental
Butterfly. Flavia (Josie Ho) is a schoolteacher at an all-girls school, married to the nice and low key Mark (Eric Kot), and has a one-year old daughter. The only trouble is, she is gay, and once she meets the free spirited... » MORE
Dare Ya!. A documentary about the Cantonese hip-hop group LMF (LazyMuthaFuckahs, for the uninitiated). Bandmember talking heads tell us why they love getting high and playing video games while the documentary utterly fails to provide any context as to why we should... » MORE
Fall In Love Too Easily. Why is it there are so many masturbation scenes in independent productions? Perhaps because the masturbatory nature of the entire enterprise is so much more readily apparent. In mainstream cinema, masturbation is played strictly for comedy. In the indys, it... » MORE
Heroes in Love. Three short stories by new directors, all dealing in some way about love. The first by Wing Shya tells the story of a lesbian who kidnaps a girl and holds her in her bedroom above a shoestore in the hopes... » MORE
Leaving in Sorrow. I enjoy watching independent Hong Kong productions, but admittedly, they are rarely good. Because of low budgets, their technical accomplishments are necessarily limited. Their only strength then lies in selecting interesting subject matter and scripting appropriately. LEAVING IN SORROW has... » MORE
Life after Life. George Lam is a well-to-do technology and astrology whiz who gets hired by businessman Patrick Tse to design a Fashion Show like no other. He picks Flora Cheung as the lead model, and decides on some creepy old wooden puppets... » MORE
Life and Times of Wu Zhong Xian, The. An adaptation of a stage play by Mok Chiu Yu, who also stars. Basically, this is a taped performance of the play, a one-man show, and not so much a show as a lecture. Mok Chiu Yu is sort of... » MORE
Neon Goddesses. A slice-of-life documentary about three girls who have migrated to Beijing to try their luck and earn some money. We don't get to learn very much about these women, both because of the short running time (46 minutes) and because... » MORE
Butterfly. Flavia (Josie Ho) is a schoolteacher at an all-girls school, married to the nice and low key Mark (Eric Kot), and has a one-year old daughter. The only trouble is, she is gay, and once she meets the free spirited... » MORE
Dare Ya!. A documentary about the Cantonese hip-hop group LMF (LazyMuthaFuckahs, for the uninitiated). Bandmember talking heads tell us why they love getting high and playing video games while the documentary utterly fails to provide any context as to why we should... » MORE
Fall In Love Too Easily. Why is it there are so many masturbation scenes in independent productions? Perhaps because the masturbatory nature of the entire enterprise is so much more readily apparent. In mainstream cinema, masturbation is played strictly for comedy. In the indys, it... » MORE
Heroes in Love. Three short stories by new directors, all dealing in some way about love. The first by Wing Shya tells the story of a lesbian who kidnaps a girl and holds her in her bedroom above a shoestore in the hopes... » MORE
Leaving in Sorrow. I enjoy watching independent Hong Kong productions, but admittedly, they are rarely good. Because of low budgets, their technical accomplishments are necessarily limited. Their only strength then lies in selecting interesting subject matter and scripting appropriately. LEAVING IN SORROW has... » MORE
Life after Life. George Lam is a well-to-do technology and astrology whiz who gets hired by businessman Patrick Tse to design a Fashion Show like no other. He picks Flora Cheung as the lead model, and decides on some creepy old wooden puppets... » MORE
Life and Times of Wu Zhong Xian, The. An adaptation of a stage play by Mok Chiu Yu, who also stars. Basically, this is a taped performance of the play, a one-man show, and not so much a show as a lecture. Mok Chiu Yu is sort of... » MORE
Neon Goddesses. A slice-of-life documentary about three girls who have migrated to Beijing to try their luck and earn some money. We don't get to learn very much about these women, both because of the short running time (46 minutes) and because... » MORE