Country: Hong Kong
Language: Cantonese
Subtitle: English
Award 1 win (Best Screenplay)

Pearl (Karena Lam) has quietly fallen in love with her boss Tom (Ekin Cheng), whos married with a family. When the story begins, Tom asks Pearl to interview for another job. Wounded, Pearl demands that Tom terminate her. The gauntlet has been thrown down. This is in fact the finale of Pearl and Toms relationship, in this movie which is told in eight scenes retrospectively.

Hong Kongs best woman screenwriter Ivy Ho (JULY RHAPSODY) makes her directorial debut with CLAUSTROPHOBIA, using eight scenes and multiple characters to explore the complications and the irony of workplace romance and politics. In a space as small, crowded and claustrophobic as the office, love doesnt grow - it incubates and breeds, like a virus.