Top five films to see in Hong Kong this week (July 27-August 2), from The Red Turtle to Mon Mon Mon Monsters

Few directors have come close to matching this audacious attempt at immersing audiences in the harrowing reality of war. Like an experimental film that reduces dialogue and violence to a bare minimum, Christopher Nolan’s latest effort is an existential survival epic that resonates beyond history and politics. (Now showing)

Dunkirk isn’t the only great movie this week to start with a man stranded on a beach. Dutch animator Michaël Dudok de Wit’s wordless feature, partly produced by Japan’s Studio Ghibli, offers a serene meditation on some of the biggest questions in life. (July 29 and August 2, part of the Hong Kong Kids International Film Festival)