Leave it to the Hong Kong film industry to create a feature-length charity PSA that corrals nearly every known local star (Jackie Chan! Louis Koo! Tony Leung Ka-fai! Eric Tsang!) to send a strong message about the role artists should play in times of crisis—and to generate proceeds to support those affected by COVID-19.

One of the major films of the Hong Kong New Wave, Ann Hui’s Boat People is a work of indelible humanity and searing political resonance. Invited to document the progress of postwar Vietnamese society, a Japanese photojournalist (George Lam) initially finds a picture-perfect image of communist contentment.

Three inmates band together to plot a desperate escape. A gang leader doesn’t want to miss his estranged daughter’s wedding; a small-time hood with a good heart must donate an organ to save his dying mother; an altruistic executive who was framed by his partner strives to set the record straight.

If you think real estate prices are high in New York, just wait’ll you see the claustrophobic spaces and sky-high rents in Hong Kong, where things are so bad for the underclasses, they’re actually starting to cohabitate with the dead.

This all-star version of King Hu’s classic Dragon Inn, shadow directed and produced by Tsui Hark, is the apex of Hong Kong wuxia cinema. Unmissable.

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With the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, Chinese soldiers in the British Forces were left to fend for themselves. One of them, Chiu (Hong Kong veteran actor Gordon Lam Ka Tung in another indelible role), has found a precarious living in the underworld.

2021 Variety Star Asia Award: Gordon Lam Ka Tung

This amiable, intimate portrait of legendary filmmaker Ann Hui, the NYAFF 2021 Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, celebrates the life, career, and independent spirit of a brilliant, pioneering artist who is also the ultimate Hong Konger.

An instant urban-noir classic, Soi Cheang’s dystopian genre thriller fairly throbs with transgression.

2021 Variety Star Asia Award: Gordon Lam Ka Tung

Known as the “One-Second Wonder,” Chow Tin-yan could see things a moment before they happened, and as a child he enjoyed brief celebrity for his gift.

Completed shortly before director Benny Chan’s untimely death in August 2020, his final work, RAGING FIRE, is an explosive action film the likes of which you get to see only once in a blue moon; it stars the inimitable Donnie Yen as Shan, a by-the-book cop whose past returns to haunt him. After a sting operation goes disastrously awry, Shan finds himself pitted against Ngo (Nicholas Tse), a former protégé who has turned criminal mastermind and is out for revenge. Centerpiece presentation and International Premiere

Stephy Tang, NYAFF 2018 Rising Star Asia awardee, shines in this dark psychological thriller about the power of the past to warp the present.

The second chapter in Ann Hui’s “Vietnamese trilogy” opens with the arrival in Hong Kong harbor of the title character, Woo Viet (Chow Yun-fat, in a role that anticipates his evolution into action hero).

A once-legendary hitman from the ‘60s is today reduced to working as a noodle chef.

This spirited quasi-sequel to the infectious 2013 hit The Way We Dance has all the right moves—and much to say about the preservation of subcultures as they’re confronted by the forces of capitalism.

Zero to Hero follows the true story of Hong Kong’s Paralympic gold medalist So Wa Wai and the incredible events and people behind his success.