The Chinese Independent Film Foundation (CIFF) is a
not-for-profit screen culture organisation dedicated
to showcasing new and old art-house Chinese-language
cinema across Australia. Founded in Narrm/Melbourne,
CIFF works with collaborators across mainland China,
Hong Kong and Taiwan to present films that
rarely receive theatrical release locally.


THREE SUMMERS
三個夏天 (1992)  Directed by Lawrence Ah Mon 劉國昌 (Hong Kong) 
Program:  Focus on Tony Leung Chiu-WaiSet over the course of three years, Lawrence Ah Mon 劉國昌’s film follows a group of teenagers navigating school, work and the uncertain future that awaits them. Tony Leung Chiu-wai 梁朝偉 plays a gentle but grounded mentor figure whose presence threads through their lives, offering guidance, humour and hard truths. The film moves between street-level realism and tender intimacy, capturing the texture of adolescence with specificity and emotional clarity.
January, 2026

Past event.
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Level 3, 139 Franklin Street, Melbourne

CIFF acknowledges the Traditional Owners of
the unceded land on which we work and create,
the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong
peoples, and the wider Kulin Nations.