Cineworks is proud to present ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ช๐ถ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป, a free retrospective screening of five short films by filmmaker Sam Luk.
๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ (2020, 8:46 minutes)
A woman's soul traverses the sea of time.
๐๐ฏ๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ (2015, 14:51 minutes)
James, a sensitive young artist, is torn between nostalgia for his childhood and a longing for success in modern society. Modified memories of his lost love as a child are clashed with scenes from his current infatuation with an unfaithful businesswoman.
๐๐ช๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ (2024, 14:52 minutes)
A poet's muse calls on his inner child to save their relationship.
๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด: implications of self-harm and suicide, alcohol use.
๐๐ช๐ด๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ, ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฅ๐ข๐บ (2020, 7:03 minutes)
Samwise and Stevie grew up with homelessness in BC and Nova Scotia. Ianos is a gender-queer Greek. Kwaku is a single father who came from extreme poverty and famine.
๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด: Alcohol and drug use.
๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐บ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต (2015, 16:55 minutes)
Heartbroken from his previous relationship, Sam suddenly finds new hope when he meets a kind and beautiful stranger on the bus.
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๐๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐น๐
Tuesday, July 15th, 2025, at 6:30 pm (doors at 6).
The Black Box Studio at Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society at 1131 Howe Street. Max capacity for 40 people. Metered parking is available on the street, and several parking lots are located nearby.
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๐๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ด๐๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐๐
Born in Hong Kong, writer-director Sam Luk has been contributing to the Canadian film industry since 2009. He focuses on making narrative films about inner landscapes, exploring the poetic nature of memory and the imagination under the mutability of spacetime and identity. His first short film, INVINCIBLE SPRING, was inducted into the permanent film catalogue at ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation in Nicosia, Cyprus. His second short film, YOU ARE MY PRESENT, was screened at Maremetraggio in 2016 and picked up distribution to Amazon Prime through Hewes Pictures. The rest of his work is now distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. Sam is also credited as a finishing editor for the broadcast series THE WILD CANADIAN YEAR produced by CBCโs THE NATURE OF THINGS and the animated feature film WINDOW HORSES produced by the NFB. In 2021, one of Sam's dramatic feature scripts was shortlisted at the Whistler Film Festival Screenwriterโs Lab. In 2024, Sam received production funding from Canada Council for the Arts for his first feature project as writer-director.
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