Chinese Film Collection

Title: Fu Bo
Director: Wong Ching Po, Lee Kung Lok
Starring: Eric Tsang, Anthony Wong, Liu Kai Chi, Paulyn Sun, Hugo Ng, Cheung Tung Joe
Fubo lifts the veil of a seldom heard of, much less spoken about profession - that of mortuary assistants, (euphemistically referred to as 'Uncle Fu') whose job is to undertake handling, dissection and cleaning up of corpses on behalf of forensic scientists. It has three narrative strands, about three agents of death, who never meet, yet affect each other's lives: a mortuary assistant, a triad assassin and a Portugese chef who cooks for death row convicts. For a film that takes place chiefly in a morgue, it confounds genre expectations gleaned from horror-thrillers like Nightwatch. While offering a voyeuristic keyhole to peer into the most repulsive and morbid details of death, it contemplates the philosophical significance of life and Destiny.

Title: Ho Yuk (Let's Love Hong Kong)
Director: Yau Ching
Starring: Wong Chung Ching, Erica Lam, Colette Koo, Maria Cordero, Wella Cheung
Hong Kong. Sometime in the future. Three women's lives quietly intersect. The city is dark and grubby - a cacophonous clash of technology, neon, cheap houses, sex and food. Drifter Zero sells sex toys, and just about everything else. 'Home' is a deserted movie theatre she shares with other squatters. Across town, Nicole is a powerful, businesswoman who is plagued by restlessness. She relieves only through nightly sessions with a sexy woman on the interactive porn website: 'Let's Love'. Chan Kwok Chan is Nicole's cyber-stripper sex toy. Isolated by choice, Chan regularly visits a female prostitute for sex, but cannot connect with anyone in her own life. Acclaimed short film-maker Yau Ching makes a bold impression with her debut feature in this intriguing story about three women whose lives quietly intersect. Ho Yuk (Let's Love Hong Kong) is a love poem to a vibrant buttough-as-nails living city.

Title: Butterfly
Director: Yan Yan Mak
Starring: Josie Ho, Tian Yuan, Eric Kot, Isabel Chan, Joman Chiang
Like a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis, Flavia finds her lesbian passion reawakened after a chance encounter with a carefree and spirited singer/songwriter. A shattering new film from award-winning director Yan Yan Mak (Gege, 2001), Butterfly alternates between the past and the present, juxtaposing a romance to a rebellious human rights activist in 1989 with her current struggles as a wife and mother. Fronted by a brave and sympathetic performance by Josie Ho, the film dares to challenge the institutions of family and marriage while championing individual rights for all Hong Kongers, gays and lesbians included. Opening Film at Venice Film Festival Critics Week.