Asian Independent Cinema Showcase 2025: Vancouver Premiere of K Family Affairs and Virtual Conversation with Director Arum Nam

Join director Arum Nam in her journey that delves into her parents' integral roles in shaping Korea's democratization. Her award-winning documentary K Family Affairs uses their family history as a lens to examine the broader political landscape of the country. Director Arum Nam will share her filmmaking experience with the audience in the virtual post-screening conversation

[Media] AICS 2025 features indie documentary shorts from Taiwan on diverse identities

Central News Agency

從香港到世界的藝術旅程 From Hong Kong to the World Through the Eyes of Artists

幾位來自香港的藝術家及文化工作者分享他們在加拿大的創作歷程，面對環境轉變的挑戰與啟發，並探討在藝術創作及發表的過程中如何游走於不同文化、記憶、語言及身份之間。

[News] The opening of the 2025 Asian Independent Cinema Showcase drew over a hundred audience members and local media attention from Pancouver, OmniTV Cantonese, and Singtao Canada.

The Vancouver premiere of Kissing the Ground You've Walked On and Conversation with Macau filmmaker Hong Heng-Fai was successfully held in UBC Robson Square on 6 February 2025.

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[Newsletters] The HKSI March 2025 Update is out!

[Media] 2025 Asian Independent Cinema Showcase draws over a hundred audience members with the Vancouver premier of a work by Macau indie filmmaker Hong Heng-Fai

Sing Tao Canada

[Newsletters] The HKSI February 2025 Update is out!

[Media] AICS co-curator Jimmy Lo introduces the 2025 program of the UBC Asian Independent Cinema Showcase

OmniTV Cantonese

[Media] HKSI AICS second edition will open with screening of Kissing the Ground You Walked On and virtual conversation with director Hong Heng-fai

Pancouver

[Publications] Survey study on Hong Kong residents recently arrived in Canada (second wave): Preliminary report

Check out this preliminary report by HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Miu Chung Yan

[Media] HKSI AICS and the Cinematheque have teamed up on a six-part retrospective on a prominent Second Wave Hong Kong filmmaker Clara Law

Pancouver

[Newsletters] The HKSI January 2025 Update is out!

Asian Independent Cinema Showcase

A UBC-based film festival to foster community, cultivate media literacy and cross-cultural understanding; and give voices to independent stories told by Asian filmmakers.

[Newsletters] The HKSI December 2024 Update is out!

[Media] HKSI Convenor Dr. Helena Wu speaks with Fairchild TV about the Jade Music Festival 2024 and the panel talk with singer-songwriters Serrini and Enno Cheng

Fairchild TV interview broadcasted on 9 November 2024

[Newsletters] The HKSI November 2024 Update is out!

Check out the HKSI November 2024 Update and this month's event.

[Newsletters] The HKSI October 2024 Update is out!

Check out the HKSI October 2024 Update and this month's event.

[Media] HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Miu Chung Yan on launch the second survey on recently arrived/returned Hong Kong residents in Canada

Omni TV (Toronto)

[Research] Survey Study (Second Wave) on Hong Kong Residents Recently Arrived in Canada

HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Miu Chung Yan (Social Work) is conducting Survey Study (Second Wave) on Hong Kong Residents Recently Arrived in Canada.

[Media] HKSI Faculty Associate Dr. Miu Chung Yan on the well-being on recently arrived/returned Hong Kong residents in Canada

Omni TV (Toronto)

[Interviews] HKSI Faculty Associate Dr Leo Shin on alchemizing history

[Media] HKSI Literary HK will welcome the award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter Dr. King Fai (Ben) Wong to speak after the screening of Liu Yichang: 1918

Pancouver

[Newsletters] The HKSI September 2024 Update is out!

Check out the HKSI September 2024 Update and this month's event.

[Awards] HKSI Convenor Dr. Helena Wu received Public Engagement Award 2024

Winter Courses

Check out these Hong Kong–related courses offered in the winter of 2024

[Annual Newsletters] The 8th edition of Intersections is out!

Check out the eighth edition of Intersections, the annual newsletter of the UBC HKSI.

[Publications] Hong Kong’s Digital Literary Field: Serialisation, Adaptation, and Readership

Check out this chapter from the book Digital China by HKSI Co-Convenor Dr. Helena Wu

2023/2024 Program

A series of film screenings, seminars, conversations, and associated events to explore the sharing of experience and the production of knowledge in Hong Kong, Canada, and beyond.