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Become a memberHong Kong | 2026 | 131’ | Colour | In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles Dir.: Philip Yung Cast: Elaine Jin, Chung Suet-Ying, Edan Lui, Jiro Lee, Harriet Yeung There are few better entry points into the heart-warming world of contemporary Lunar New Year comedies than The Snowball on a Sunny Day, one of the hits that gave the Hong Kong box office a surge this spring. Every year, Muiday (Elaine Jin) asks her granddaughter Sunnie (Chung Suet-ying) to buy the same ticket for the Lunar New Year lottery. This time, overwhelmed by her job on a chaotic film set, Sunnie can’t get one in time and is shocked to see her grandmother’s numbers win the draw. Seeing the ‘win’ as a way of keeping her strained family together, Sunnie pretends she bought the ticket as instructed and has to maintain the illusion of their new millionaire lifestyle. With a star-studded cast led by Elaine Jin (Yi Yi, A Brighter Summer Day), the film is a love-letter to filmmaking and a perceptive satire of family life in the rapidly changing environment of 2020s Hong Kong. Followed by online Q&A with Philip Yung and Chung Suet-ying. Cantonese audio description available. Headsets available from the box office. Please email to [email protected] if you need them. About Hong Kong Film Festival UK Hong Kong Film Festival UK returns for its fourth edition from 25 September to 4 October in London, presenting reflective and shape-shifting cinema from Hong Kong, the wider Asian diaspora and beyond, marking the start of a more year-round festival. This year’s programme foregrounds diaspora as agency — behind the camera, on screen and between communities. Across contemporary and historical cinema, artists’ moving image and interdisciplinary art practices, the festival moves through questions of migration, colonisation, activism and gender. Together, these works reshape ideas of memory and community. Website: www.hkff.uk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HKFF.UK Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hkff.unitedkingdom/ X: https://x.com/hkff_UK
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