The Snowball on a Sunny Day 金多寶
Repositioning (in) Hong Kong Cinema • UK Premiere • Q&A • AD
3 Oct 2026 (Sat) • 14:00 • Ritzy Picturehouse
Hong Kong | 2026 | Colour | 131’
In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
Dir.: Philip Yung 翁子光
Cast: Elaine Jin 金燕玲, Chung Suet-Ying 鍾雪瑩, Edan Lui 呂爵安, Jiro Lee 李尚正, Harriet Yeung 楊詩敏
There are few better entry points into the heart-warming world of contemporary Lunar New Year comedies than The Snowball on a Sunny Day, one of the hits that gave the Hong Kong box office a surge this spring.
Every year, Muiday (Elaine Jin) asks her granddaughter Sunnie (Chung Suet-ying) to buy the same ticket for the Lunar New Year lottery. This time, overwhelmed by her job on a chaotic film set, Sunnie can’t get one in time and is shocked to see her grandmother’s numbers win the draw. Seeing the ‘win’ as a way of keeping her strained family together, Sunnie pretends she bought the ticket as instructed and has to maintain the illusion of their new millionaire lifestyle.
With a star-studded cast led by Elaine Jin (Yi Yi, A Brighter Summer Day), the film is a love-letter to filmmaking and a perceptive satire of family life in the rapidly changing environment of 2020s Hong Kong.
Followed by online Q&A with Philip Yung and Chung Suet-ying.
Cantonese audio description available. Please email info@hkff.uk to reserve a headset.
