Join us for Carrie Shen’s short film screening followed by a fun director Q&A session in person!

Join the Hong Kong Community Hub for an afternoon of short films and conversation with Carrie Shen, a Hong Kong-born, London-based writer and filmmaker whose work explores memory, displacement, belonging, relationships and loss.

The screening brings together four of Shen’s short films made across different stages of her creative practice:

Fun Fair (2026)

Lucas and Lily can only meet in the afterlife. Bound to different places, their brief reunions depend on the return of a travelling fair. When Lucas offers Lily the chance to take his place, the possibility of returning to Hong Kong forces them to confront love, separation and what it means to let someone go.

Playground (2026)

On the eve of her departure from the UK, Mavis pulls her friend Cassie into one final night of chaos. A coming-of-age story about friendship, loss and the traces people leave behind.

In Your Shoe (2024)

A story of unspoken desire and unrequited love, following a group of friends whose feelings remain just out of reach. The film asks whether love necessarily depends on being together.

White White (2024)

After the disappearance of his girlfriend, recent immigrant Jiu turns his attention to her white potted plant. As the plant slowly withers, the film reflects on grief, solitude, abandonment and emotional stagnation through a restrained visual style.

Following the screening, Carrie will join us for an in-person discussion and audience Q&A, reflecting on her filmmaking practice, migration and diaspora, and the relationship between personal memory and collective experience.

About Carrie Shen

Born in Hong Kong and based in London, Carrie Shen is a writer and filmmaker working across narrative film, documentary, fiction and performance art. Her work explores identity, memory, displacement and belonging through intimate stories of relationships, loss and separation.

Her narrative short White White screened at the 2024 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and the 2025 Paris Hong Kong Film Festival, while Playground premiered at the 2026 Paris Hong Kong Film Festival. Her documentary Short Story Long was selected for the 2023 Hong Kong Film Festival UK.

Both White White and Playground were adapted from stories in her debut short-story collection, forthcoming in Taiwan in 2026. Her filmmaking is characterised by a restrained visual language and an interest in the relationship between personal memory and collective experience, particularly in the context of migration and diaspora.

Programme

3:00 pm – Welcome and introduction

3:10 pm – Short-film screening

Approx. 4:20 pm – Conversation with Carrie Shen and audience Q&A

5:00 pm – Event ends

Programme timings are approximate.

Presented by

Hong Kong Community Hub at the University of Sheffield

The Hong Kong Community Hub creates opportunities for communities to engage with Hong Kong culture, cinema, art and diasporic experience through screenings, exhibitions, talks, workshops and other public events.

Website: hkcommunityhub.org.uk

Instagram: @hkcommunityhub

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