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BEFORE THE BOX GETS EMPTIED

By Sze-Wai HO

FRESH WAVE FILM FESTIVAL LIMITED - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline / FIN / FEST

Drama - Completed 2023

A Golden Horse awarded short film focus on a pair of primary school friends part ways under the Hong Kong immigration wave.

Festivals
& Awards

Golden Horse Awards 2023

Best Live Action Short Film

Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival 2023

Local Competition: Fresh Wave Award and Best Cinematography

ifva Awards 2024

Open Category: Gold Award

South Taiwan Film Festival 2024

Official Selection: In Competition

Singapore Chinese Film Festival 2024

Official Selection

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Drama, Children's, Female director
- Countries
- HONG KONG (CHINA)
- Languages
- CANTONESE
- Duration
- 30 mn
- Director(s)
- Sze-Wai HO
- Writer(s)
- Sze-Wai HO
- Cast
- Siu-Kit TANG, Ching-Kin LING
- Producer(s)
- Wing-Tung SHEW
- Synopsis
- For sixth grader Marco, the minutiae of life revolve around taking the light rail with his best friend Chris and their Beyblade battles. But just like the Beyblades that spin in unpredictable directions, Chris is embarking on a different life path. Before Chris’s departure, they continue to linger around the neighbourhood playing with friends, uncertain about the future and how to say farewell. Tuen Mun, through the director’s lens, is slightly tinged with melancholy, resembling both a maze and a playground. In a child’s imaginative and innocent perspective, the film makes poignant observations on the anxieties of the adult world during the pandemic and how people deal with inevitable losses.