13 - 28 September 2025
Hong Kong Film Festival UK returns for its third edition from 12–28 September in London, presenting reflective, boundary-shifting cinema from Hong Kong and the ESEA diaspora.
This year’s programme foregrounds transient and transitioning identities, exploring perspectives on migration, activism, marginalised communities, and gender, highlighting also the creative lens of women filmmakers. From dynamic contemporary works to intimate personal narratives, the festival centres voices that challenge, navigate, and reimagine belonging. Supported by the BFI.
Hong Kong Film Festival UK returns for its third edition from 12–28 September in London, presenting reflective, boundary-shifting cinema from Hong Kong and the ESEA diaspora.
This year’s programme foregrounds transient and transitioning identities, exploring perspectives on migration, activism, marginalised communities, and gender, highlighting also the creative lens of women filmmakers. From dynamic contemporary works to intimate personal narratives, the festival centres voices that challenge, navigate, and reimagine belonging. Supported by the BFI.
Programme
Saturday 13 September, 6.30pm
Shorts Programme: Afterimage + Q&A
Wounds healing, scars left behind. Years have gathered since collective trauma, and heads are simultaneously looking forwards while looking back. Reconciliation is a many-faced monster - is it just a typhoon, or just by chance that these are the colours chosen to represent it all? Alienated and rootless, we persist onwards, pondering between worlds.
20 - 28 September
Forever Foreigner: The Films of Clara Law
Clara Law is often introduced as part of the ‘Hong Kong New Wave,’ although she refuses to be defined by territorial labels, a form of categorisation she continually challenges throughout her body of works. Born in Macau, raised in Hong Kong, and now based in Melbourne, Law—like many of her characters—is perpetually in motion, crossing national borders and cultural boundaries, making the sense of displacement in diaspora a recurring theme in both her life and work.
Tuesday 23 September, 6.30pm
UK PREMIERE
Queerpanorama
A gay man takes up a multitude of personas: an actor, a scientist, a teacher, an architect. His identity is constantly evolving - all impersonations, as he becomes his previous lover in the next casual encounter. He reimagines the lives of these intimate strangers, stringing together a new version of himself from their homes, spaces, and brief stories, wondering if this is the only way he can truly be himself.
Saturday 13 September, 6.30pm
Shorts Programme: Afterimage + Q&A
Wounds healing, scars left behind. Years have gathered since collective trauma, and heads are simultaneously looking forwards while looking back. Reconciliation is a many-faced monster - is it just a typhoon, or just by chance that these are the colours chosen to represent it all? Alienated and rootless, we persist onwards, pondering between worlds.
20 - 28 September
Forever Foreigner: The Films of Clara Law
Clara Law is often introduced as part of the ‘Hong Kong New Wave,’ although she refuses to be defined by territorial labels, a form of categorisation she continually challenges throughout her body of works. Born in Macau, raised in Hong Kong, and now based in Melbourne, Law—like many of her characters—is perpetually in motion, crossing national borders and cultural boundaries, making the sense of displacement in diaspora a recurring theme in both her life and work.
Tuesday 23 September, 6.30pm
UK PREMIERE
Queerpanorama
A gay man takes up a multitude of personas: an actor, a scientist, a teacher, an architect. His identity is constantly evolving - all impersonations, as he becomes his previous lover in the next casual encounter. He reimagines the lives of these intimate strangers, stringing together a new version of himself from their homes, spaces, and brief stories, wondering if this is the only way he can truly be himself.
no. 236848.