ImagineLand 2026: Movie Under the Stars

These screenings, curated by the Hong Kong Film Archive, are part of the Hong Kong Pop Culture Festival 2026 programme ImagineLand.

Last Song For You (2024)

Dir/Scr: Jill Leung
Prod Cos: Mei Ah, Film Development Fund, Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency (CCIDA)
Cast: Ekin Cheng, Natalie Hsu, Ian Chan, Cecilia Choi
2024 | Colour | Cantonese | Chi & Eng Subtitles | 106min

That summer, young Ha Man Huen (Natalie Hsu) and young So Sing Wah (Ian Chan) crossed paths through a shared love of music, wondering just how far this love could take them.

Years later, musician So (Ekin Cheng) unexpectedly encounters his first love Ha (Cecilia Choi), in a hospital during troughs of their lives. Struck by how much he has changed, ailing Ha decides to send him to a journey as a parting gift, hoping this will reignite his life.

Courtesy of Mei Ah Entertainment Group Limited

Fly Me to Polaris (1999)

Dir: Jingle Ma
Scrs: Lo Chi-leung, Yeung Sin-ling
Prod Cos: Golden Harvest, Deltamac, Sil-Metropole
Cast: Richie Jen, Cecilia Cheung, William So Wing-hong, Eric Tsang
1999 | Colour | Cantonese | Chinese Subtitles | 93min

Onion is a young man, blind and dumb, working as an audiotape typist in a hospital. Despite his misfortune, Onion faces life cheerfully. Onion lives in the staff quarters of the hospital. He is crazy about a nurse Autumn living two floors below him. Autumn, though young and beautiful, is an introvert and is quite uncomfortable in handing the courtship of various young men.  She is far more at ease when she confides in the blind Onion.

One day, Onion is hit by a car.  He finds himself suddenly beamed to a dreamy environment and is able to see and speak again.  A young agent dressed in black tells Onion that he was killed on earth and is now in transit to Polaris, as human beings live and die on earth, then go to Polaris to lead a slightly more sophisticated form of existence then die on Polaris and go to lead a yet more sophisticated form of existence in Vega, and the journey continues through galaxies, always onwards and upwards.

The agent tells Onion that he happens to be the 60 billionth human being who dies on earth. Every time the number hits 10 billion, the person will be granted a wish. Onion is overjoyed and wishes to return to earth as he wants to be with Autumn. The agent can only allow Onion to return to earth for five days. During these five days, he will be able to see and speak, but will have the appearance of a different person so that no one will recognize him. Nor will he be able to let people know who he really is and all this jazz about Polaris. Onion accepts the rules and is beamed back to earth……

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