A stage director's farewell production turns vicious when his movie-star ex muscles into the lead role. Keane T.K. Wong's screwball debut, mentored by Derek Yee, stars Stephen Fung and Myolie Wu.
A stage director's farewell production turns vicious when his movie-star ex muscles into the lead role. Keane T.K. Wong's screwball debut, mentored by Derek Yee, stars Stephen Fung and Myolie Wu.
Intro and Q&A with Screen International Rising Star Asia Award Recipient Angela Yuen and director Keane TK Wong
A Hong Kong housewife secretly signs up for a pole dancing class, and suddenly finds she has stories to keep straight, a body to retrain, and a respectability act that is falling apart.
Intro and Q&A with director Joey Wu
Longman Leung’s Cold War blockbuster prequel rewinds to 1994 and old-school Hong Kong cinema, where a tycoon kidnapping unleashes cops, spies, triads, ransom panic, and colonial paranoia in a city changing hands.
Premium Screening. Intro and Q&A with Best From The East Award Recipient Daniel Wu
The 50th Hong Kong Film Festival’s Closing Film: a trans woman leaves mainland China for Hong Kong's back alleys, falls in love and explores the dangerous freedom to remake herself.
Intro and Q&A with director Philip Yung, actress Liu Yuqiao and screenwriter Annabelle Kayee Li
Searching for his long-lost chatroom crush, a Hong Kong chef cooks his way through four dates, four Zeldas, and one deliciously awkward reckoning with love à la carte, memory, and appetite.
Intro and Q&A with director Frankie Chung
A cable subscription refuses to die. Sirens, panic, and a hell of a cancellation fee follow in Mak Tin-shu’s customer-service farce.
Intro and Q&A with cast Yukki Tai & Ng Wing Sze
Ma Li stars in Andrew Lau’s true story of Zang Jianhe, who sold handmade dumplings near Wan Chai Pier and built them into the legendary Wanchai Ferry brand.
Intro and Q&A with director Andrew Lau
Andy Lau’s mahjong master gets both lucky and cursed… and to top it all: romantically clobbered in Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai’s tile-drunk comedy of bad hands and worse habits.
Game on! Girl power gets a kick in the joystick as Hong Kong’s all-female esports underdogs turn a cha chaan teng into a pixel-bright comeback arena.
Intro and Q&A with Screen International Rising Star Asia Award Recipient Angela Yuen, and director Veronica Bassetto
A Macau-born filmmaker faces marriage, a stalled career, and the loves that made her who she is in Tracy Choi’s intimate queer drama about growing without letting go.
Intro and Q&A with director Tracy Choi
A tofu-maker's kid, a battered Toyota AE86, and mountain roads built for trouble. From the directors of Infernal Affairs, the drift-racing cult favorite returns in 20th-anniversary 4K.
Intro and Q&A with director Andrew Lau
Dayo Wong runs East Tsim Sha Tsui’s last great hostess club. Then Sammi Cheng storms in as his ex-wife and the new CEO, with thirty days to save it. Jack Ng’s hit returns in a rougher, seedier Director’s Cut.
Forget the Miramax hack job. Forget the old Blu-rays. Stephen Chow’s Shaolin Soccer hits NYAFF in its original Cantonese theatrical version, from Universe’s recent 2K digital remaster DCP: kung fu, football, wire-fu insanity, and lowbrow genius gone sublime.
Before superhero cinema took over, The Storm Riders gave Hong Kong its own comic-book apocalypse: Ekin Cheng, Aaron Kwok, prophecy, magic swords, heroic hair, and CGI pushed past reason.
Intro with director Andrew Lau
One childhood alien-abduction, a prank-happy influencer, an extortion plot, and a fed-up traffic cop collide across one chaotic Hong Kong night. Kwok Ka-hei and Jack Lee’s debut is a low-budget, fast-cutting whodunit.
A Valentine’s Day bus explosion exposes a forbidden love story in Herman Yau’s furious Hong Kong crime tragedy, where social despair turns violently, devastatingly intimate.
Pang Ho-cheung's ruthlessly funny debut: a struggling hitman, ordered to film his own kills, hires a broke director to shoot them. The black comedy skewers the murder business and the movie business in the same breath.
Intro and Q&A with director Pang Ho-cheung