Your World, Without Me(HKAFF 2019)

With his nostalgic youth romances Wong Ka Yan and When Sun Meets Moon, Benny Lau has emerged as one of Hong Kong’s most promising new filmmakers in recent years. For his third film, the director brings his flair for telling fresh-faced, pure-hearted stories of serendipitous love to the new setting of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan. Free-spirited Bu grew up in the small town of Moxi at the foot of Mt. Gongga. He meets traveler Luo Yao by chance, and the two grow closer while taking in the region’s breathtaking scenery together. Before parting ways, they set the fanciful dream of building a cabin under the stars.