Hong Kong
Shorts Programme 3

Part of the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, the programme presents six Hong Kong short films. In Foreign Bodies (dir. 黃靜頤), an everyday itch escalates into an outbreak caused by foreign bodies. I Put Ladybug into the Gun (dir. 胡芷瑩) follows three girls, a ladybug and a gun as they climb over a school fence late at night and enter a world of their own, doing absurd things to resist surveillance and control. Our Child (dir. 斯皞暘) unfolds on a Mid-Autumn reunion night, when a family eagerly awaits an unborn son; two women are bound by the same child and trapped by him, each facing the cost of tradition. Homecoming and Going (dir. 高思約) follows 阿堅, long based in London, as he prepares to return to Hong Kong and hands his home to 詠欣, who has just arrived with her fiancé 俊; the three wander through their final day together and say goodbye before setting off on separate paths. Blacky The Metal Arm Cat (dir. 何歷) follows a metal-armed black cat seeking revenge for his master, using traditional martial arts against enemies with alien technology amid the conflict between old and new eras. Brace for the Storm (dir. 陳穎文) is set on the eve of Mid-Autumn at an old seaside guesthouse, where 芳姐, an elderly employee unwilling to go home, and a work-study student from Hong Kong must work together through a typhoon to protect the crumbling shelter.