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Rex Ren Xia

Directing

Biography

Ren's graduation short film "Even Ants Strive For Survival" won Best Director at the 11th Fresh Wave Festival and the Gold Award at the 23rd ifva Awards. His debut feature "May You Stay Forever Young" won the NETPAC Award at the 58th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and was nominated for Best New Director and Best Film Editing at the Golden Horse Awards.

Known For

A Life of Papers
N/A

Based on a real case, A Life of Papers tells the story of the 82-year-old Chu, a “cardboard granny” who makes her living by collecting waste cardboard boxes and selling them to recyclers at as low as HK$1 per kilogram. Under-privileged and oppressed, Chu almost consistently runs into conflicts with the merciless law enforcers, as well as the blood-thirsty press. The film also depicts her bonding with two other persons: a 10-year-old AD/HD kid and Ling, her long-time crippled mate whom everyone believes to be her husband but what lies behind is a Platonic relationship of secret intimacy and loving care. Chu’s story also affects the young soul of the ambitious and fame-driven reporter, Heidi.

A Life of Papers

A Sunny Day
6.0

Hong Kong, at the height of the protests. A young woman visits her father, whom she has not seen for a while. Her plan is to have lunch with him before the Umbrella Movement reaches a critical juncture. Celebrated, committed filmmaker Ying Liang contributed with a beautiful moving short with an special angle asking: Where do we live, and what is citizenship?

A Sunny Day

2016
The Ripple
N/A

Security guard Cheung is a loving father who takes good care of his children. As his kids grow older, they have their own lives and that leaves Chueng feeling lonely. He displaces his fatherly love onto his colleague Sheung's young children instead. This innocent act, however, makes his daughter suspect that Cheung and Sheung are having an affair and a small incident risks being blown out of scale.

The Ripple

2010
Acadana Dreaming
N/A

Phone Made Good Film No.4

Acadana Dreaming

2022
Drifting
N/A

Fai, a ten-year-old boy who is a new immigrant from mainland China, he lives in a narrow suite with his mother and his step-father.

Drifting

2011
Even Ants Strive for Survival
6.7

The film is set in a future when the central government attempts to replace every citizen’s name with numbers. In such a social upheaval, Ma Yi cares nothing but cancels an auto-masturbating machine. While Ma Yi doesn’t violate the law, he is however arrested and interrogated by the police.

Even Ants Strive for Survival

2017
May You Stay Forever Young
6.0

In June 2019, YY is one of many young people who join the Anti-Extradition Law protests. She announces that she will commit suicide as a radical method to make the Hong Kong government respond to their demands. A group of fellow protestors must race against time to find her before it is too late. After an emotionally exhausting hunt, Lai is found at the top of a building preparing to jump off...

May You Stay Forever Young

2022
9032024
4.0

Sequel of “Even Ants Strive for Survival” (2017). To earn money for his ailing father's medical expenses, Ma Second needs to attend a job interview. The process is constantly haunted by past experiences, like a nightmare, which he responds to with intense, frantic behavior. Viewers concerned about Hong Kong politics will easily understand Ma Second's anxiety and see the director's strong self-expression.

9032024

2022
Mrs. Pong
5.0

Her name’s Pong, Mrs. Pong. At first glance, she’s a meek, middle-aged woman, pleasantly plump and perfectly harmless. Yet as circumstances demand it, she’s not your ordinary mother, nor a long-suffering widow for that matter. Her missions? To pull her son out of peril while standing up to bullies and saving homes from being uprooted and demolished in the name of urban renewal. Mrs. Pong effortlessly transforms from an armchair survivalist to a fearless heroine hell-bent on her mission, trading punches and kicks for frying pans and woks, awakening a rebellious spirit that wars against exploitation and oppression in a system tilted towards the rich and powerful.

Mrs. Pong

2013
To The Other Side
N/A

Phone Made Good Film No.6

To The Other Side

2022
Queen of Spades, Queen of Hearts
N/A

Diane want to get rid of her relationship with Anthony, however her flatmate Joan doesn’t agree with her.

Queen of Spades, Queen of Hearts

2022
Something About Us
7.0

Director Ren's grandmother suffered from depression during the Cultural Revolution as her husband was jailed and tortured. Although the Cultural Revolution ended almost half a century ago, the trauma left behind still affects three generations of this family.

Something About Us

2025
Wake in Sunshine
N/A

A lonely girl thinks about her past with her boyfriend.

Wake in Sunshine

2022