Lunar New Year at the BFI

The BFI Southbank’s Lunar New Year film season returns in 2025, with a programme of three films that have been selected by Focus Hong Kong. The big draw is the UK premiere of True Love, for Once in My Life. Produced by acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Fruit Chan, screenwriter Siu Koon-ho’s directorial debut is a nuanced drama tracing the lifelong relationship between a couple stuck in a failed marriage. Also on the bill is All Shall Be Well, a moving portrait of a group of older friends in Hong Kong’s queer community that tackles the injustices faced by a bereaved elderly lesbian and a 40th-anniversary screening of Tsui Hark’s timeless 1930s-set rom-com Shanghai Blues.