As an integral part of the M+ Museum, M+ Cinema celebrates the richness of visual culture on screen.
M+ Cinema will lift its curtain this June. A centrepiece of M+’s Moving Image Centre, M+ Cinema comprises three houses with 180 seats, 60 seats, and 40 seats and will feature a wide range of moving image works, including feature films, documentaries, experimental cinema, video art, restored classics, and newly discovered or rarely seen films.
Helmed by world-renowned architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, the three cinema houses feature seats by Italian furniture maker Poltrona Frau and are furnished in distinct purple, green, and blue colour fabrics by Danish design company Kvadrat. Equipped with digital and analogue 16mm and 35mm projection facilities and a Dolby 7.1 sound system, films will be screened as closely as possible to their original formats.
The inaugural cinematic edition offers a new take on Hong Kong cinema and the international avant-garde scene, featuring thematically curated programmes, premieres of restored classics, documentaries on art, M+ collection works, and other special screenings.
Highlights include the thematic programme titled Hong Kong: The Establishing, which celebrates the city's illustrious cinematic heritage and its iconic urban landscape through the lens of its filmmakers. To celebrate the opening, the 4K restored versions of Days of Being Wild (1990) by Wong Kar Wai and Xiao Wu (1998) by Jia Zhangke will also have their Hong Kong premieres.
