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Follow the glitz and glam as stars of the screen descend on Hong Kong to celebrate the best in film.
Koshi Mizukami (left) and Riho Yoshioka in a still from Kowloon Generic Romance.
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10 must-see movies and programmes at Hong Kong’s Summer IFF 2025

From It Was Just an Accident to Eddington, here are 10 highlights to catch at the Summer International Film Festival, from August 13 to 25.

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How indie animations like Flow are outshining big studio films

Flow, directed by Gints Zilbalodis, is part of a wave of non-Hollywood animated films telling hard-hitting stories aimed at adult audiences.

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A screen grab from Flow, the Oscar-winning animation from independent director Gints Zilbalodis.
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Best movies to watch at the Hong Kong International Film Festival 2025

The 2025 HKIFF boasts a line-up of nearly 200 films to be shown over 12 days. Here is our pick of unmissable movies and programmes.

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Beauty in chaos: Japanese hail Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City film exhibition

Exhibition a hit for fans enthralled by aesthetics, martial arts moves and nostalgia of Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In.

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Asian cinema: Chinese films

11 must-sees at Summer International Film Festival 2024 in Hong Kong

The original Godzilla and King Kong films, a documentary presented by fanboy Martin Scorsese about two of Britain’s greatest filmmakers, a portrait of Hayao Miyazaki – Hong Kong film fans are in for some treats.

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Ethan Juan and Karena Lam in a still from Tales of Taipei.
Asian cinema: Chinese films

Why film on Malaysia’s darkest day was so hard to make

Snow in Midsummer’s director reveals the challenges he encountered when making the film about Malaysia’s deadly sectarian riots that left hundreds of mainly ethnic Chinese dead on May 13, 1969.

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Asian cinema: Chinese films

Old Fox director on the movie’s message about selflessness vs greed

Golden Horse Awards winner Old Fox depicts Taiwan after the end of martial law, a time of rapid change. Director Hsiao Ya-chuan hopes its message resonates today as it did in the era in which it is set.

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Asian cinema

‘I would be arrested at the airport’: actress targets Iran’s regime

Iranian-French actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi, who won best actress at Cannes 2022 for Holy Spider, talks about her films that portray people defying Iran’s strict laws, and advocating for women’s rights.

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Iranian-French actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in France on May 23, 2022, where she won the best actress award for her role in Holy Spider. She recently attended the Hong Kong International Film Festival, which was showing Shayda, in which she stars. Photo: Getty Images
Asian cinema: Japanese films

Japanese rape survivor on her film of case that shook her country

Journalist Shiori Ito’s documentary Black Box Diaries is a soul-baring examination of her sexual assault by a high-profile journalist and her fight for justice that pushed the #MeToo movement in Japan.

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Japanese journalist Shiori Ito (right) in a still from Black Box Diaries, her documentary of her sexual assault by a prominent TV journalist and her five-year struggle to bring him to justice that pushed the #MeToo movement in Japan. Photo: HKIFF
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

15 highlights from the Hong Kong International Film Festival 2024

Our pick of the 200 films being shown at the festival includes Korean mega hit Exhuma, 2024 Berlin best film winner Dahomey, and all the movies of The Banshees of Inisherin director Martin McDonagh.

Hong Kong economy

Opinion | How to boost Hong Kong tourism: vouchers now, and a vision for the long term

The industry needs reforms and a radical overhaul but, for now, vouchers to reward tourists for spending locally – say, HK$100 for every HK$1,000 spent – would be a quick boost. Beyond that, Hong Kong must prioritise quality, distinctiveness and originality while leveraging its culture, diversity and heritage.

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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Past Lives, Back Home among highlights of Hong Kong international film fest

Back Home, starring boy band Mirror’s Anson Kong, Celina Song’s romance Past Lives, and a nostalgia trip by Ultraman godfather Kazuya Konaka are among the Post’s 10 must-sees from Hong Kong Summer IFF 2023.

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Greta Lee (left) and Teo Yoo in a still from Past Lives. Photo: Jon Pack
Hong Kong economy

Opinion | How Hong Kong can give the world reasons to fall back in love with it

From entertainment and sports to art and culture, Hong Kong needs a strategy to reinvent itself as an international lifestyle centre alongside its role as a global financial centre.

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The Hong Kong skyline at sunrise. Hong Kong is still a safe, well-connected, vibrant and dynamic place to live, work and visit. Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Review | Mad Fate: destiny vs free will in absurdist Hong Kong murder thriller

Lam Ka-tung and Mirror’s Lokman Yeung try to exert their free will and change their destiny in director Soi Cheang’s Hong Kong-set genre thrill ride with a dash of fantasy thrown in.

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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

10 highlights from the Hong Kong International Film Festival 2023

The 47th Hong Kong International Film Festival makes a full return after three years of Covid-19 pandemic disruptions. From Mad Fate and Vital Sign to Aftersun, we pick 10 highlights not to be missed.

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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | With masks off and shows on, Hong Kong is back on track

Busy events calendar in March alone will help restore confidence and signal to the world that Hong Kong has moved on from Covid-19.

Hong Kong’s largest outdoor music festival, held at the Central Harbourfront, returned on March 3-5 after a four-year hiatus. Photo: Dickson Lee
Performing arts in Hong Kong

Beyond Art Basel: 11 best cultural events in Hong Kong this month

From a Coco Chanel-inspired ballet to HKIFF’s Godard retrospective and a Leslie Cheung tribute at the brand new HKT x WestK Popfest music festival

Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

10 highlights from the Hong Kong International Film Festival 2022

The Hong Kong International Film Festival 2022 runs from August 15-31 and includes four world premieres and 32 Asian premieres. Here are 10 highlights from the event that you shouldn’t miss.

Asian cinema

10 highlights of Hong Kong Summer International Film Festival 2021

Two hits from last month’s Cannes Film Festival, Annette and Benedetta, are among the highlights of this year’s Hong Kong Summer International Film Festival.

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Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard in a still from Annette.
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

Our 12 highlights from Hong Kong International Film Festival 2021

This year’s festival includes a Tony Leung and Aaron Kwok crime epic, four Wong Kar-wai classics and seven from Stanley Kwan, as well as Korean, Danish and Kazakh films and a number of restored classics.

(From left) Michael Chow, Tony Leung, Aaron Kwok and Patrick Tam in a still from Where the Wind Blows.
Asian cinema

10 must-sees in Hong Kong Summer International Film Festival

A Woody Allen romcom, an Almodovar retrospective, a Maradona documentary and Jim Jarmusch’s take on the zombie genre are among a slew of new releases and restored classics. Don’t miss Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing.

Asian cinema

Oscar-winning Iranian filmmaker on the paradox of freedom

Everybody Knows director Asghar Farhadi says that while shooting the film in Spain meant he was ‘free to put into practice whatever you think of’, his instinct is still to touch on topics similar to those in Iranian culture.

European cinema

Filmmaker has ‘no idea’ why he is called the French Scorsese

The Sisters Brothers director Jacques Audiard talks about his nickname, the challenge of shooting in English, women’s representation at film festivals and why he doesn’t want his films entered in competition any more.

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Chinese language cinema

How China’s Fifth Generation filmmakers defied criticism and censorship

New ways of storytelling and rich political allegories were the innovations that this new breed of maverick directors introduced. Bold in abstraction and symbolism, their films relied on images rather than dialogue for expression.

A still from Zhang Yimou’s directorial debut Red Sorghum (1988).
Asian cinema

15 must-see movies at Hong Kong International Film Festival 2019

Subjects include drugs in Colombia to free climbing in Yosemite, first world war footage in colour to a documentary about Alien. Other films are about a footballer who loses his skill and a documentary about Alexander McQueen.

Summer International Film Festival in Hong Kong: what to see

Cine Fan’s Summer International Film Festival runs from August 18 to 28 and will showcase a number of new and old cinematic treats from around the world. Here are our picks of what shouldn’t be missed.

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