PART I: 25.8.2019 (Sun) R.S.V.P.: http://bit.ly/2T9OqDy

• Movie Screening: 《Tomorrow》/ 3:30pm – 5:30pm
• Location: Qube (2/f, Block A)
• Trailer: http://bit.ly/2KML0TE

[Synopsis]

With humanity threatened by the collapse of ecosystems, journalist and NGO director Cyril Dion and actor and filmmaker Mélanie Laurent head out across the world, with a small film crew, in search of a solution that can save their children. Based on the most successful experiments in all sectors (agriculture, energy, housing, economics, education…) they are going to attempt to write a new story about what could happen in the future. Only by elaborating this vision will enough of the planet’s inhabitants be enlisted to build a new society; just like what the dream of “progress” inspired in the 20th century. TOMORROW received Best Documentary Film at the César Awards.

Director & Cast: Cyril Dion, Mélanie Laurent
Duration: 120 mins
Category: IIA
Language: French, English (Chinese & English subtitles)

• 《Tomorrow》Post-screening Sharing: 5:30pm – 6:30pm
• Location: Qube (2/f, Block A)
• Speaker: Kevin Cheung
• Moderator: Joycelyn Choi

[About Speaker ]

Kevin Cheung
Trained as a product designer in the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kevin is devoted in upcycled-product development. He believes that designers have the ability and responsibility to protect the environment while creating new products, striving to achieve a sustainable balance between nature, the economy and our society. Kevin also hosts upcycling workshops where he encourages participants to make more and shop less.

[About Moderator]

Joycelyn Choi
Joycelyn is General Manager of arthouse TV channel MOViE MOViE, which she launched in 2012, together with its cinema in 2017, and OTT service in 2018. In addition to publishing bimonthly film culture magazine MMM, she is the curator of interdisciplinary film festival LIFE IS ART, and advises on numerous local film and animation projects. Joycelyn previously worked for TVB, Hong Kong Arts Centre, and PCCW NowTV. She also self-financed and published a personal book project “ON THE ROAD: memories, love and things that matter” in 2015.

PART II: 31.8.2019 (Sat) R.S.V.P.: http://bit.ly/2T9OqDy

• Movie Screening: 《Life, Animated》/ 1:30pm – 3:02pm
• Location: Qube (2/f, Block A)
• Trailer: http://bit.ly/30ar0AE

[Synopsis]

At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind ceased to speak, disappearing into autism with apparently no way out. Almost four years passed and the only stimuli that engaged Owen were Disney films. Then one day, his father donned a puppet—lago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin—and asked, “What’s it like to be you?” And poof! Owen replied, with dialogue from the movie. Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found in Disney animation a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world. Winner of Sundance Film Festival – Directing Award (Documentary) and Oscar nominee for Best Documentary.

Director: Roger Ross Williams
Cast: Owen Suskind, Cornelia Suskind, Walter Suskind, Ron Suskind
Duration: 92 mins
Category: I
Language: English (Chinese Subtitle)

• 《Life, Animated》Post-screening Sharing: 3:05pm – 4:05pm
• Location: Qube (2/f, Block A)
• Speakers: Patricia Choi, Thomas Li (Little Albert)
• Moderator: Joycelyn Choi

[About Speakers]

Patricia Choi
Patricia Choi is an interior architect and design educator. She is the founder of the creative residence Wontonmeen and co-founder of design collective Yuen Yeung.

Dr. Thomas Li (Little Albert)
Thomas Li Cheuk Wing is a private psychiatrist who lived and trained in Australia before returning to Hong Kong. Out of the different specialties in medicine his interest is in psychiatry, in particular psychoanalysis. He found his love of music whilst a university student. After deciding to stay in medicine, he continued music making as his self-therapy. Over the last 10 years, he has been producing and playing his brand of Cantonese rap songs, sharing them online and in various live settings.

[About Moderator]

Joycelyn Choi
Joycelyn is General Manager of arthouse TV channel MOViE MOViE, which she launched in 2012, together with its cinema in 2017, and OTT service in 2018. In addition to publishing bimonthly film culture magazine MMM, she is the curator of interdisciplinary film festival LIFE IS ART, and advises on numerous local film and animation projects. Joycelyn previously worked for TVB, Hong Kong Arts Centre, and PCCW NowTV. She also self-financed and published a personal book project “ON THE ROAD: memories, love and things that matter” in 2015.

[15 mins Break]

• Movie Screening: 《Sepideh》/ 4:20pm – 5:50pm
• Location: Qube (2/f, Block A)
• Trailer: http://bit.ly/2Z6BOhZ

[Synopsis]

Sepideh wants to become an astronaut. She spends her nights exploring the secrets of the universe, while her family will do anything to keep her on the ground. The expectations for a young Iranian woman are very different from Sepideh’s ambitions, and her plans to go to university are in danger. But Sepideh holds on to her dreams, teaming up with the world’s first female space tourist, Anousheh Ansari, to fight to make them come true. In competition of the World Cinema Documentary, Sundance Film Festival.

Director: Berit Madsen
Cast: Sepideh Hooshyar
Duration: 88 mins
Category: I
Language: Persian (Chinese and English Subtitles)

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