Green Ray

Green Ray is the miracle where you perceive the love of film.

We Are a Young & Creative
Film Organisation

Green Ray is a film organisation based in London, England, founded in 2025. We regularly curate independent film screenings, publish film reviews, keep abreast of industry developments, and report on international film festivals to create more beneficial dialogues between Chinese and British filmmakers and audiences.

Last Activities

Pride in Ordinary Times

Traditional Chinese queer cinema centers on marginalization, stigma and trauma. Departing from such narratives, Pride in Ordinary Times gathers transnational short films to explore queer everyday life, intimacy and self-becoming. It redefines queer pride as quiet, authentic daily happiness instead of mere resistance and struggle.

Spring Quartet: Bitter Sweet Ballad (2023)

This screening event will be held at King's College London from 15:00 to 17:30 on Saturday, June 13 and Saturday, June 20, 2026. Ticket link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spring-quartet-screening-of-bitter-sweet-ballad-2023-tickets-1991516645898

Broken Puzzles

First Public Programming——Broken Puzzle, which was held on May 4, 2025 to May 11, 2025.

Pride in Ordinary Times

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For Features

Review of The Unbroken: Struck Matches and Things Ignited by Mistake

Review of The Unbroken: Struck Matches and Things Ignited by Mistake & The lit match and what was mistakenly ignited This is a film about matches. Sukanta Bhattacharya, a Bengali poet, wrote a poem titled Deshlai Kathi. A single matchstick is not enough to burn anything down, yet it carries fire, embodying the tiniest yet most resolute will of a human being. The story of Adamya (The Unbroken) stems directly from this poem. Twenty-three-year-old Palash is a left-wing revolutio

海里

Jun 24

Film Review of Macho Dancer: Neon Lights, Bubbles and Cheap Kisses

Film Review of Macho Dancer: Neon Lights, Bubbles and Cheap Kisses Neon Lights, Bubbles and Cheap Kisses We tend to equate the body with desire and nudity with seduction. Yet in the desperate struggle for survival in Manila depicted in the film Macho Dancer, the body is the only asset, the only means of expression, and the only form of resistance available to people from the lower social strata. The film lays bare the sordid and seedy nature of the male stripper industry with

莞安

Jun 21

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Film Criticism

We produce rigorous and critically engaged writing on both contemporary cinema and rediscovered classics. With close attention to form, context, and cultural resonance, we situate films within broader artistic, political, and historical frameworks.

What We Do

Film Curation

We curate thematic screening programmes with a focus on Sinophone and Asian cinema. Through these programmes, we aim to amplify emerging voices and introduce their work to wider audiences in the UK, fostering cross-cultural dialogue and engagement.

Film Promotion

By connecting their work with festivals, screening platforms, and cultural institutions, we develop a film sales and circulation strategy to support the visibility of emerging filmmakers, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds.

Rino Lu

Founder and Director

Rino is a film critic, curator, and film practitioner working across international cinema and transnational film culture. He writes bilingually in Chinese and English, with work published in numerous international outlets. His practice operates at the intersection of criticism, festival circulation, and Asian diasporic cinema.

Siran Cai

Co-Founder

Siran is an independent film producer and curator based in London. Her creative work focuses on diverse human stories, with a particular emphasis on gender issues and marginalized perspectives. Through her engagement with film festivals and cinema, she hopes to bring marginalized narratives into the public sphere and make them part of broader social dialogue.