The screening on 15 August will be introduced by Ching Wong, curator of Forever Foreigner: The Films of Clara Law film series.

Autumn Moon, winner of the Golden Leopard at the 1992 Locarno Film Festival, is the fourth film in Clara Law’s loose 'emigration series,' following They Say the Moon is Fuller Here (1985), The Other Half and the Other Half (1988), and Farewell China (1990). Written by Law’s longtime collaborator and partner Eddie Fong, the film is a poetic meditation on identity, belonging, and the elusive idea of home, while reflecting Law’s distinctive transnational sensibility through its interplay of languages, cultures, and perspectives.

Set in a city marked by departure and transition, Autumn Moon centres on Pui-wai, a 15-year-old girl awaiting emigration to Canada, and Tokio, a drifting Japanese tourist. Through a series of shared meals and conversations, the two develop a quiet bond that eases their mutual sense of loneliness and displacement. Capturing the uncertainty and emotional dislocation of Hong Kong’s emigration wave before 1997, the film also foreshadows Law and Fong’s own move to Australia just two years later.

Supported by the Hong Kong Economic Trade Office London.

Cast:
Pui-Wai Li, Masatoshi Nagase