The Film Programmes Office focuses on the cultivation and promotion of film culture in Hong Kong. In 2005, the office organised a variety of film and video programmes, workshops and seminars, which were very well received. The programmes enabled local audiences to appreciate cinematic art from all over the globe, and to experience diversified cultural activities.

Highlights included the International Children's Film Carnival, the Microwave International Media Art Festival and the 34^th French Cinepanorama. World classics were showcased in the Repertory Cinema series, namely Alain Resnais — Traveling in Time, Shen Fu and Shui Hua — China in the Past and British New Wave of the 60s. Other thematic programmes included French Cinema: From Classic to Contemporary, Cityscape in Films, The War Against Japanese Aggression — History and Memories, Early Hong Kong — Japan Co-Productions, Yellow Willow in the Frost: Films of Anna May Wong and Inspired by Jean Cocteau. To celebrate the Centennial Year of Chinese cinema, special programmes including a retrospective on Sun Yu, Pearl River Delta: Movie • Culture • Life, and the Chinese Film Panorama were organised.

	The Pearl River Delta: Movie • Culture • Life exhibition at the Hong Kong Film Archive.

To support major local film events, venue sponsorship was provided for the annual Hong Kong International Film Festival and the Hong Kong Film Awards Presentation Ceremony. Funding support was also given to the Hong Kong Arts Centre for the annual Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards in encouraging creative independent productions of short film and video by young film and video makers.