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Hong Kong Film Festival: DEADLINE

At the hyper-competitive Enshan school, students are kept in line by state-of-the-art AI surveillance technology and iSmart, a nationwide tech initiative that tracks performance and attendance. In the days before the elite school’s final exams, order descends into chaos when an anonymous note predicts the suicide of an unnamed student.

Join us for the UK premiere of this latest film by acclaimed director Kiwi Chow – award-winning filmmaker of Ten Years and box office smash Beyond the Dream. Unavailable to watch in Hong Kong itself, Deadline is an Orwellian thriller about a near future where the connected worlds of AI technology, education, and authoritarian governments leave little space for freedom and humanity to flourish.

In collaboration with cinematographer Danny Szeto Yat-lui, Chow has made his most artistically ambitious work yet. Enshan’s hallways are transformed in Deadline’s dystopian, sci-fi world to offer a stark warning of how a system can corrupt even those with the best intentions.

Film distributed in the UK by DOVC.

Followed by an online Q&A with Kiwi Chow.

Content warning: Themes of suicide and self-harm.

Hong Kong Film Festival UK

Hong Kong Film Festival: DEADLINE

  • Runtime: 118 minutes
  • Director: Kiwi Chow
  • Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, UK
  • Year: 2025
  • Film

Event Key:

  • SO Sold Out
  • PP Pink Palace
  • SP Special Event
  • CM Classic Matinee
  • QA Q+A / Discussion
  • FF Family Flicks
  • HoH Hard of Hearing
  • RS Relaxed Screening
  • CB Carers + Baby
  • NoAds No Ads or Trailers
  • RF Rio Forever