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I·CARE Film Festival – Once Upon Our Times

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I·CARE Film Festival Programme Leaflet

I·CARE Film Festival Poster

Date:

6 Mar 2017 - 30 Mar 2017

Time:

Please refer to each screening details

Venue:

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Enquiries:

3943 8621

Event Details:

The lights dim. The screen starts glowing. Words fade in. 2017 This year, in retrospect, would have faded away into the mists of time as with any other year; this March, historic changes are due to happen in Hong Kong, and yet, all the tumult would eventually fade out, bygones would be gone. Time flows like a river. Memories, whether deep or shallow, last no longer than footprints in the snow. Thankfully we have film – a medium that distills time into art and leaves records of bygone ages in both dainty and heavy strokes.

Titled “Once Upon Our Times”, this year’s I·CARE Film Festival takes us on a trip down memory lane to revisit all the past eras as captured on celluloid. Comrades, Almost a Love Story (1996, Peter Chan), our opening film, chronicled the drifting romance of two average Joes as the change of Hong Kong’s sovereignty was nearing. Two decades fleeted by, but Hong Kong remains close to our hearts as always. Made in Hong Kong (1997, Fruit Chan) and Mad World (2017, Wong Chun) tell the Hong Kong Story from two different times. How to keep memories alive in the fast-changing world? Documentary movie Vanished Archives (2014, Connie Lo) traces the past fifty years and makes it clear that film not only entertains, it inspires and cares just as much. Life is impermanent. However, blessed ones like us can still sit comfortably and immerse ourselves in the boundless imagination of two master directors – Three Times (2005, Hou Hsiao-hsien from Taiwan) and Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke from Mainland China).

In four successive weeks, we play a fine selection of films and talk with teachers about their favourites. This March is going to be both long and short. If you do agree with the saying that life is but a dream, join our overnight screening of the Before Trilogy which took nine long years to make. Let’s recall the movies we’ve seen and the eras we’ve pondered in this particular semester.