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Thu 01 Oct
|Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
Homecoming and Going 逆留
Kristie Ko's short film about an apartment handed over between old friends on the day one leaves London and another arrives, screening in London as part of Hong Kong Film Festival UK. It plays inside Inherited Movements, many migrations, a shorts programme on leaving, returning and taking root made with Amnesty International UK, followed by an in-person discussion with the filmmakers. For anyone thinking about home, diaspora and what gets left behind.
Time & Location
01 Oct 2026, 18:15 – 20:30
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
About the event
Narrating Migration - HKFFUK X Amnesty International UK • Discussion
Homecoming and Going 逆留
Hong Kong, UK | 2025 | Colour | 19’
In Cantonese and English with Chinese and English subtitles
Dir.: Kristie Ko 高思約
An apartment is handed over between old friends. It is Emily and Vincent’s first day in London, and Megan’s last day before returning to Hong Kong. As Emily and Vincent start their new life, Megan bids farewell to the people and places she has grown to call home.
The film screens in London as part of Inherited Movements, many migrations:
Across generations, migration takes many forms: the quiet rooting of a plant, the courage to leave and return, the written word as a thread that binds people across distance and separation.
This programme traces experiences of migration across different times and places — people who arrived in Hong Kong, and those who later left it for the UK — allowing conversations around home and identity to unfold from narrative cinema into documentary and artist moving images.
Beginning with the perspectives of women filmmakers, we move across borders and geographies, following the ways in which people leave, return, adapt, and take root again.
Followed by in-person discussion with filmmakers.
Presented in partnership with Amnesty International UK(AIUK).
The programme also includes The First Photograph 第一張照片 (dir. Jess Lau Ching-wa 劉清華), as a bird that briefly perches 擇鳥記 (dir. Dorothy Cheung 張紫茵), Heart of the Lion 赤子獅心 (dir. Rosanna Lee 李學儀) and Tiger’s Head, Nail’s Tail: Yours Faithfully 虎頭鐵釘尾: 信 (dir. Serene Hui 許思樂).
Homecoming and Going also screens at Worcester Film Festival on 25 September 2026, ahead of this London date.
Find out more info or book your tickets on https://www.ica.art/films/hkff-inherited-movements-many-migrations-discussion
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