Guests visit the Exhibition on Green Deck featuring a PolyU-initiated innovative solution
to problems in the Cross Harbour Tunnel vicinity, e.g., poor air quality and connectivity.
Looking from a different view
Shifting the focus to film, cinema lovers flocked to Innovation Tower throughout the Festival to attend the “Meaningful Cinema” series. The first screening was of German director Valentin Thurn’s documentary Taste the Waste, linking back to the concerns embodied in the Festival’s opening event. Thurin portrays food waste as a global problem, asserting that “the food thrown away in Europe and North America would be enough to feed all the hungry people in the world three times over”.
Other documentaries screened at the Festival touched on subjects closer to home. Ekopolis, directed by Anna-Karin Grönroos, documents the dream of a Finnish professor and a Chinese businessman to relieve China’s potential housing shortage by building a utopian, technologically advanced city. In Web Junkie, a group of Chinese teenagers tries to get away from their technology habit by checking into a rehab clinic for web addiction. Also screened during the Festival were short films by Hong Kong directors that had been entered into the 14th annual Venice Biennale film festival.
