The Hong Kong Film Festival UK is returning from 25 September to 4 October in London with a newly launched Experimental & Expanded strand, which spotlights works that reimagine the possibilities of moving image art through an experimental lens, with a particular focus on collective memory as well as personal recollection.

- City Like Water + Reading & Discussion
29 Sept  (Tue)  •  18:00  •  Close-Up
A programme of experimental artists’ moving image in response to Dorothy Tse’s novel City Like Water, in which the daily absurdities of Hong Kong’s socio-political transformation metamorphose into surrealist imagery.

- I Heard That They Are Not Going to See Each Other Anymore
30 Sept (Wed)  •  18:30  •  ICA
The UK premiere of Ka Ki Wong’s first feature. The film transforms the streets of Taipei into a kaleidoscopic lucid dream, probing the relationship between connection, memory, and pain through the intertwined stories of her characters, whom the filmmaker interviews, leaving us unsure whether the answers are coming from the actors themselves or from the characters they play.

- Remanence: The (Un)erasable - Moving Image + Lecture Performance
3 Oct (Sat)  •  18:30  •  ICA
A programme of experimental documentary, artists’ moving image and lecture performance explores voices as both fragile and impossible to fully erase. It features the UK premiere of Rico Wong's Compact Disc, the winner of the CPH:DOX 2026 New:Vision Award.

The festival will also present the early experimental shorts by Mary Stephen, its filmmaker in focus this year, at the ICA on 26 September.

Full programme and tickets → hkff.uk