25th New York Asian Film Festival

July 10-26, 2026

U.S. Premiere

Unidentified Murder

UFO離奇命案

Made on almost no budget, the debut feature of writer-directors Kwok Ka-hei and Jack Lee is a darkly comic puzzle box. It starts with a group of children who once witnessed an alien abduction, an event that sensationalist media turned into a lasting legend. From there it gathers an influencer staging an elaborate prank on her boyfriend, a young actor caught in the middle of it, an extortion scheme that goes badly wrong, and one thoroughly fed-up motorcycle cop. Rather than march from point A to point B, the film keeps switching perspectives, each character handing over another piece of the puzzle. At the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards it won Best Screenplay and was named one of the year’s Films of Merit.

Directors: Kwok Ka Hei, Jack Lee Chun Kit
Producers: Kwok Ka Hei, Wong Tak Chun, Fung Wai Sze
Screenwriters: Kwok Ka Hei, Jack Lee Chun Kit, Ho Siu Hong, Choi Ka Hang Devon
Cast: Ling Man Lung, Renci Yeung, Ronald Lam, Peter Chan (Chan Charm Man Peter), Kenny Wong
Languages: Cantonese with Traditional Chinese and English subtitles
2025; 87 min.; DCP
Country: Hong Kong

SCHEDULE:

Saturday July 25, 7:00pm
SVA Theatre