Making Waves - Navigators of Hong Kong Cinema 2025

Café owner Nin’s mundane but contented life is shattered forever when his fifteen-year-old son Ming slashes his mother and younger sister to death one evening. Diagnosed with acute schizophrenia, Ming is remanded to a psychiatric prison indefinitely until full recovery. Aside from visiting his son twice a month, Nin continues to lead a pedestrian existence, while memories of his wife, daughter, and son keep flooding into his head. As time passes, Nin gives up on understanding the cause of the tragedy. All he wishes for is that one day, Ming — the only family member he has left, yet also the one who destroyed it — may return home again.

In 2012, Andre Blumberg set out to complete all four of Hong Kong’s major long-distance trails—totaling 298km and 14,500m of elevation gain—in just four days. This solo feat became the Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge, one of the toughest ultramarathons in the world. Set against the backdrop of the 2021 edition, the film traces the event’s origin, exploring the mental and physical journeys of its participants as they battle exhaustion, isolation, and the clock over an unsupported 72-hour race. Through moments of humor and heartbreak, Four Trails captures the indomitable human spirit.

Suk-jing recently welcomes a baby daughter into her ordinary life, which, to her surprise, will never be the same again. She is soon stressed-out taking care of the baby 24/7, while her husband never proactively takes part in it. Conflicts with in-laws, postpartum bodily changes, affected work performance are straws piling up on her back... After long nights of nursing in loneliness, where will the break of day lead her?

Tai, the owner of a struggling internet café, recruits a past esports star Solo, his daughter Fay, and former actor Octo to create the “Happy Hour” team and compete for a major esports prize in Hong Kong. Mild violence and comedic adult humor | Recommended for 12+

That summer, young Ha Man Huen (Natalie Hsu) and young So Sing Wah (Ian Chan) crossed paths through a shared love of music, wondering just how far this love could take them. Years later, musician So (Ekin Cheng) unexpectedly encounters his first love Ha (Cecilia Choi) during the lowest point in his life. Struck by how much he has changed, ailing Ha decides to give him a parting gift, hoping this journey will reignite his life.

In 1996, Financial Secretary Simon Fan implemented a container inspection exemption policy, inadvertently causing a catastrophic fire at the Kwai Chung Terminal, killing his firefighter wife. His brother-in-law, Kit Li, blamed him ever since. Ten years later, a recycling plant fire reveals a deadly radiation leak. Forced to put aside their differences, the two join forces to lead the fire brigade deep into danger, confronting political corruption and racing against time to carry out a high-stakes demolition to prevent the city’s destruction.