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The Last Dance Explores Family, Faith and the Limits of Taoism
Anselm Chan’s third feature is a meditation on life, death, religion and personal freedom...
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Cha Guo Stories, Part IV: The Dragon Fruit Farm
An organic farm in Kwu Tung lives in harmony with the seasons, but change is on the horizon...
A New Kind of Hong Kong Action Film
Writer-director Chan Tai-lee has made a reluctant action film that blends family drama with a crucial part of Hong Kong film’s DNA...
Cha Guo Stories, Part III: A Saw Mill That Built Hong Kong
Chi Kee Wood Mill moved around the city before ending up in Kwu Tung – and now it is facing relocation yet again...
Hong Kong Girls Rebel: Riley Yip’s New Feature
When director Riley Yip Yuk-ying was doing auditions for her feature debut, Blossoms Under Somewhere (寄了一整個春天), she remembers actor Sheena Chan Shu-yan being perplexed. “[She] asked me, ‘Why am I taking these off here?’” recalls Yip. In the scene, a character strips off her underwear and dances around an elite girls’ school assembly hall, proudly […]...
Before the 1980s, There Was Another Golden Era of Hong Kong Film
The story of Cathay Studios, also known as MP&GI, which helped make Hong Kong into the Chinese Hollywood...
Hong Kong Film is Back in Action
Twin filmmakers Albert and Herbert Leung are bucking drama trend in local films by embracing old-school action...
Love Lies: Ho Miu-ki’s Unlikely Romantic Drama
Dating app fraud makes for an unconventional romance in this new film starring Sandra Ng...
Hong Kong’s Cold War Movie Era: How Ideology Shaped Entertainment
A new retrospective of films made by Hong Kong’s so-called left-wing or patriotic studios reveals the ideological underpinnings of the movie industry...
Cha Guo Stories, Part II: A Great-Grandmother’s Quietly Remarkable Life
A 96-year-old Hakka woman tells us about a long life of hardship, joy and the pleasure of a tight-knit rural community...
Cha Guo Stories, Part I: Meet the Concrete Master Who Helped Build Hong Kong
From his small rural workshop, Kanny Au helped supply crucial material to some of Hong Kong’s biggest construction projects ...
A Borderless Vision of Hong Kong Film
Director Jonathan Li has no problem taking the Hong Kong out of Hong Kong cinema...
Hong Kong Cinema is Not Dead. How? A New Independent Model
Faced by a brain drain and less profitable film industry, Hong Kong filmmakers are turning to innovative approaches...
The Kowloon Walled City Comes to Life in A Surprise Action Hit
Soi Cheang's new blockbuster feels simultaneously contemporary and old-school in a way that evokes the best of Hong Kong film...
Explore the Magic of Cinematic Qipao
Curator and designer Edith Cheung brings a collection of on-screen qipao, or cheongsam, to the Hong Kong Film Archive...
All is Not Well in This Family LGBTQ+ Drama
Ray Yeung’s latest feature examines the double tragedy faced by Hongkongers who lose their same-sex partners...
Moon Shot: A Feature Debut Captures the Life of a Hunanese Migrant to Hong Kong
Sasha Chuk never planned to be a filmmaker, but her semi-autobiographical debut is generating plenty of buzz...
In Her New Documentary “Winter Chants,” Jessey Tsang Goes Home
Sai Kung’s Ho Chung Village once again features in filmmaker Jessey Tsang’s latest work...
“Table for Six” is Back With a Chinese New Year Sequel
Romantic entanglements and family drama return in a follow-up to what should have been a lunar new year blockbuster ...
A New Documentary Shows How Chinatown is Fighting Back
North America’s historic Chinatowns are not just resisting demise, they are plotting a course towards a more resilient future...
Changing the Game: Art and Design on Screen
MOViE MOViE partners with Business of Design Week for the return of its curated Life is Art programme ...
Filmmaker Nick Cheuk Confronts Suicide in Hong Kong
Time Still Turns the Pages offers a nuanced take on depression in a city that struggles with mental health...
In Broad Daylight: A New Film Examines the Work of Hong Kong Journalists
Lawrence Kan Kwan-chun’s latest feature follows in the vein of Spotlight, All the Presidents’ Men and Silenced...
This Filmmaker Wants to Haunt You
Nate Ki is doing his part to revitalise Hong Kong’s art horror traditions in one of the year’s best debuts...
Hong Kong’s LGBTQ+ Film Fest is Back – Here’s What to Watch
The 34th Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival is back in full form, and just in the nick of time...
A Film That Sounds Like Hong Kong
Amos Why’s latest feature, Everyphone Everywhere, turns the camera on our love-hate relationship with our phones...
Young at Heart: A Film Fest for Kids
Proving you’re never too old for a good time at the movies with the family, KIFF and KIFF Carnival return to stoke film appreciation in Hong Kong’s youngest minds...
Anthony Pun Wants One More Chance
The cinematographer-turned-director landed Chow Yun-fat to play a gambling addict who must take care of his autistic son...
Kongkee Reimagines an Ancient Poet in Cyberpunk Hong Kong
Hong Kong artist Kongkee weaves Chinese history and science fiction in an immersive exhibition now on show in Chicago ...
Hong Kong’s Neon Shines On in Anastasia Tsang’s Film Debut
A Light Never Goes Out rides the wave of Hong Kong’s cinematic renaissance with a thoughtful look at everything represented by neon heritage...
Underrated Director Cheang Pou-soi: In His Own Words
Cheang Pou-soi is one of Hong Kong’s most vital filmmakers. Why do so few people know his name?...
Forgotten Hong Kong Icon: Painting Movie Posters by Hand
A billboard painter looks back at a trade that once enlivened the streets of Hong Kong...
Ka Sing-fung’s Lost Love
The journalist turned filmmaker turns his minimalist cinematic gaze to a family that fosters differently abled children...
Voices of a Generation: “To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self”
Hong Kong New Wave giant Mabel Cheung returns to the screen with a decade-in-the-making chronicle that confirms we should never underestimate a young woman...
Portrait of a City: The Narrow Road
Lam Sum together with Wong Hin-yan, his school chum and composer, makes his debut with a pandemic-era drama that refuses to be grim or dreary...
Even Covid Can’t Kill Hong Kong Film: What to Watch This Autumn
At the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and beyond, it's a good season for local film...
Why Hong Kong’s Most Controversial LGBTQ+ Filmmaker is Retiring
After diving into filmmaking 16 years ago, self-taught director Scud has produced a unique body of work. So why is he leaving it behind?...
Mama’s Affair: Kearen Pang’s New Film is More Than Just Buzzy
Playwright and filmmaker Kearen Pang wades straight into the mainstream with a little help from Cantopop phenomenon MIRROR for her second feature film...
Far, Far Away: A New Kind of Hong Kong Rom-Com
Amos Why's latest film is a small production filmed early in the pandemic – but its portrayal of the city rings true...
Septet: A Messy, Ambitious Reflection of Hong Kong
After years of delays, Johnnie To’s anthology brings together some of Hong Kong’s greatest filmmakers to offer seven slices of city life...