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Ambiguous TBC

Sun 3 Nov, 3.30pm

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Director: Fong Chun Kit

Cast: Lau Shau Ching, Yiyi Zhao

Duration: 98 mins

Certificate: TBC


Outside a kindergarten, a chance encounter over a mobile screenshot connects middle-aged Chan Chi Yung with Wang Xia, a housewife. Their ordinary lives continue while their children have fun together in the playground. They chat about this and that as waves of emotions surface.


Playwright Matthew Cheng focuses on minute details that challenge the precarious boundary between love lost and found. Ambiguous won Best Original Script at the 30th Hong Kong Drama Awards and the 2023 Shanghai One Drama Awards.


With English subtitles.


Global Stage on Screen is a new season bringing 10 selected stage works from Asia to cinemas in the UK. The programme includes classics well-known to western audiences presented with an Eastern interpretation, alongside original stories drawn from the rich and vibrant Chinese artistic culture.

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Sun 3 Nov

3.30pm

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