In the Spectrum of Love

In the Spectrum of Love

August 16 & 23, 2025

STArt Film Studio presents In the Spectrum of Love, a touring showcase of four iconic Chinese-language films. Across six cities, we invite you to rediscover these unforgettable portraits of intimacy, distance, silence, and resilience.

In the Spectrum of Love: Happy Together

1997 | 96 min. | Wong Kar-Wai

August 16, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Ho Po-Wing and Lai Yiu-Fai are a gay couple from Hong Kong with a turbulent relationship marked by frequent separations and reconciliations. They visit Argentina together but break up after they become lost while traveling to visit the Iguazu Falls.

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In the Spectrum of Love: Vive L'Amour

1994 | 118 min. | Tsai Ming-liang

August 16, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Focusing on three city folk who unknowingly share the same apartment. A promiscuous real estate agent, her current lover and a homeless man who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.

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In the Spectrum of Love: All Shall Be Well

2024 | 93 min. | Ray Yeung

August 23, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Angie and Pat have been together for over four decades but after Pat's unexpected death, Angie finds herself at the mercy of Pat's family as she struggles to retain her dignity and the home that both had shared for over thirty years.

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In the Spectrum of Love: Lan Yu

2001 | 86 min. | Stanley Kwan

August 23, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Beijing, 1988. On the cusp of middle age, Chen Handong (Hu Jun) has known little but success all his life. The eldest son of a senior government bureaucrat, he heads a fast-growing trading company and plays as hard as he works. Few know that Handong's tastes run more to boys than girls. Chen develops a relationship with a young boy named Lan Yu (Ye Liu) that goes farther than he ever wanted it to.

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