Affection

Five shorts reveal a fictional Hong Kong in 2025, depicting a dystopian city where residents and activists face crackdowns under iron-fisted rule.

The film tells the story of how Hong Kong rice farmers use their crops to pour time and strength into connecting Hong Kong people and their land. To stand up to the challenges Hong Kong nature offered, the farmers put effort into farming their own rice and spread their contribution in agriculture in order to enable Hongkongers to taste the rice from the very soil they stand on. The countless stories behind a bowl of local rice, which embeds the inseparable relationship between the land and its people, are told through this film.

The documentary offers a glimpse into the life of a farmer who worked in the fields with his father when he was young. After spending time in the city as an adult, he returns to the countryside to take over the family’s business and learns the essence of making a living from the land.

Once gang member Tai revitalizes his life by running a laundry shop in an old district. The quiet man finally leading the ordinary life his dead wife longed for. However, he encounters a gangster bullying the remaining residents of an old apartment building. Is he going to turn a blind eye for the unjust? This film is supported by The Joseph Lau Luen Hung Charitable Trust and presented by the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers.