Next Stop, Somewhere 別來無恙 (other cities)

Manchester

17 Jan 2026 (Sat), 3.30pm, HOME Manchester

Malaysia | 2025 | Colour | 87’ | In Cantonese, Mandarin and Vietnamese with Chinese and English subtitles

Dir.: James Lee 李添興

Cast: Anthony Wong 黃秋生, Kendra Sow 蘇凱璇, Angel Lee 李雪, Mike Chuah 蔡煒祥

Whether caused by the rising cost of living or our tumultuous political environments, many of us across Europe and Asia are bound by the desire to emigrate and seek greener pastures in another country. But what are the emotional costs of such a move?

In Next Stop, Somewhere, filmmakers James Lee and Jeremiah Foo explore the personal struggles of emigration in all their intimacy and complexity through two parallel stories of separation and connection: Huang (Anthony Wong), a Hong Kong actor enduring a two-week hotel quarantine upon relocating to Taiwan, and Kim (Kendra Sow), a Vietnamese woman navigating challenging new relationships as she arrives in Malaysia for an arranged marriage.

Framed with the sensitivity of an Edward Yang film, an unusually tight aspect ratio, and a beautiful use of colour, Next Stop, Somewhere is a tender exploration of diasporic experience and what happens when our longing to escape confronts the realities of emigration.