SPARE QUEENS

Join HIFF for a special screening event with 2026 Hong Kong Honoree Actress Stephy Tang in attendance for a post-screening discussion. Once fierce rivals in Hong Kong’s competitive bowling scene, Bik Kwan and Yin Ching took very different paths: one relied on relentless determination, the other on natural talent, until a scandal drove them apart. More than a decade later, Bik Kwan (Stephy Tang) is managing a struggling women’s bowling team on the verge of dissolution. After discovering a promising young player, she realizes that saving the team may require help from the one person she never wanted to see again—her former rival Yin Ching (Chrissie Chau). Forced back onto the same lane, the two women must confront old grudges, buried history, and the disappointments that reshaped their lives. Directed by Tommy Tom, SPARE QUEENS transforms bowling’s notoriously difficult 7–10 split into a spirited metaphor for second chances, as two former champions discover that picking up life’s toughest spare might require trusting each other one more time.