Sai Wan Ho Hong Kong Film Archive | !NSPIRE Series 2025: Integrating the Modern and the Traditional: Chinese Humanism and Hong Kong Cinema

Description

This programme is an exploration of how Chinese humanism informs the stories told by Hong Kong filmmakers and consumed by the people of Hong Kong and elsewhere. The exploration will be taken from four different perspectives: the interplay of moral values involving family and nation, the role of the educated sector known as literati, the development of gender relationship and the legal dimension. Three films will be screened in each category, two of them Hong Kong productions from different eras and one a foreign film serving as reference. A seminar will be conducted for each category to provide opportunities for exchanging ideas while a post-screening talk will be given after each film.

Chinese humanism will continue to evolve with time, as will Hong Kong cinema. And stories of the people, for the people and by the people (including those generated by AI) will continue to be told. See you at the movies!

Remarks:

It Was a Cold Winter Night, It So Happens to a Woman and The Adulteress
The quality of the image and sound of the screened version is short of ideal. We appreciate your understanding.

Chu Yuan
The quality of the image and sound of the screened version is short of ideal, and only a portion of the lyrics lacks English subtitles. We appreciate your understanding.

Bound by Chastity Rule
The quality of the image, sound and Chinese subtitle of the screened version is short of ideal. We appreciate your understanding.

2025/09/21SUN01:00PM - It Was a Cold Winter Night
  
2025/09/21SUN05:00PM - The Warlords
  
2025/09/27SAT02:00PM - The Wife's Confession (4K Restored Version)
  
2025/09/28SUN11:00AM - Chu Yuan
  
2025/09/28SUN03:00PM - The Golden Era
  
2025/10/04SAT02:00PM - The Book of Fish
  
2025/10/04SAT05:00PM - It So Happens to a Woman
  
2025/10/11SAT02:00PM - Sisters of the World Unite

2025/10/11SAT05:30PM - Bound by Chastity Rule
 
2025/10/12SUN11:00AM - The Adulteress
  
2025/10/12SUN03:00PM - Lawyer Lawyer
 
2025/10/25SAT02:00PM - Anatomy of a Murder (4K Restored Version)