The screening is part of the series Sinophone Cinemas.

This screening program features six young artists from Hong Kong whose creative practices embody the emerging perma-cinema movement. Inspired by permaculture, perma-cinema refers to a cinematic approach deeply rooted in sustainability—encompassing filmmaking, daily life, and community building. Set in the context of Hong Kong, an island-city shaped by border politics, neoliberal pressures, and cultural hybridity, perma-cinema also serves as a form of self-sustaining art, which acts to maintain one’s own autonomy of memory and affect against the societal inertia and isolation amid global and local upheavals.

The artists’ film and art practices are rooted in their own ways of cultivating sustainable and equitable living, such as practicing urban farming, village sojourns, running a community vegan restaurant, and various forms of cultural activism. Their gradual, resilient, and introspective endeavors reflect our era’s scarcest resource: hope. Far from fleeting optimism, but a “slow hope,” as German environmental historian Christof Mauch describes it—one forged through endurance of trauma, despair, and crisis. It is a communal, incremental narrative, distinct from the glare of technological futurism, yet a vital force in confronting planetary challenges.