Hong Kong

Hong Kong

This collection features films from Hong Kong.

Films from mainland China and Taiwan are found in their respective collections.

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Hong Kong
  • Do Not Circulate

    Directed by Tiffany Sia • Documentary • 2021 • 17 minutes

    Do Not Circulate, an experimental short film directed by Tiffany Sia, attempts a structuralist and materialist approach to unraveling the entrails of a collective media memory. Paced by an essay as a relentless voiceover, the film rips fo...

  • What Rules the Invisible

    Directed by Tiffany Sia • Documentary • 2022 • 10 minutes

    What Rules The Invisible is a short film that upends archival travelogue footage shot in Hong Kong. Spanning reappropriated amateur footage across the 20th century, the sojourner’s gaze—distanced, distorted and even voyeuristic—shows trop...

  • Never Rest/Unrest

    Directed by Tiffany Sia • Documentary • 2020 • 28 minutes

    Never Rest/Unrest is a hand-held short film by Tiffany Sia about the relentless political actions in Hong Kong, spanning early summer to late 2019. The experimental short is an adaptation of the artist's practice of scaling oral history, ...

  • Blue Island

    Directed by CHAN Tze Woon • Documentary • 2022 • 98 minutes

    BLUE ISLAND documents three people who engaged in rebellions when they were young. Through reconstructing these events, the film dramatizes their scarred memories and experiences by using four young people who participated in the 2019 A...

  • Inside the Red Brick Wall

    Directed by Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers • Documentary • 2021 • 88 minutes

    In 2019, the world was captivated by pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. Demonstrators, many with colorful umbrellas, faced teargas and rubber bullets for calling to an end to increasing Chinese control of Hong Kong....

  • Taking Back the Legislature

    Directed by Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers • Documentary • 2021 • 46 minutes

    TAKING BACK THE LEGISLATURE unspools over the course of a single day – one that marked a critical moment in the 2019 Hong Kong protests against the new extradition law.

    On July 1, Hong Kong marked the 22nd anniversar...

  • Fagara

    Directed by Heiward Mak • Drama • With Sammi Cheng, Li Xiaofeng, Megan Lai, Wu Yanshu, Liu Juei Chi, Richie Jen, Andy Lau, Kenny Bee • 2019 • 118 minutes

    In the wake of her father’s death, a woman discovers two distant sisters she knows little about. But with her own relationship uncertain and t...

  • The Golden Era

    Directed by Ann Hui • Drama • With Tang Wei, Feng Shao Feng, Wang Zhiwen, Zhu Yawen, Huang Xuan • 2014 • 179 minutes

    Tang Wei plays famed Chinese writer Xiao Hong in director Ann Hui’s epic feature recounting her short life; from her childhood in the Heilongjiang Province to her final days in Ho...

  • Johnnie To's Office

    Directed by Johnnie To • Drama • With Sylvia Chang, Chow Yun-Fat, Eason Chan, Tang Wei, Lang Yueting, Wang Ziyi • 2015 • 120 minutes

    Based on the hit play 'Design for Living' by star and producer Sylvia Chang, Office is a movie musical spectacular revolving around corporate maneuvering and roman...

  • Our Time Will Come

    Directed by Ann Hui • Drama • With Eddie Peng Yuyan, Zhou Xun, Wallace Huo Chienhwa • 2017 • 131 minutes

    1941. Hong Kong is under Japanese occupation. The anti-Japanese Dongjiang guerilla unit is tasked with rescuing cultural figures and extracting them from the besieged city. Primary school tea...

  • Show Me Your Love

    Directed by Ryon Lee • Drama • With Raymond Wong, Nina Paw, Ivana Wong • 2016 • 99 minutes

    After the death of a relative, a Hong Kong teacher must return to his boyhood home in Malaysia, reuniting him with his distant mother who left him behind. Nina Paw was nominated for Best Actress at the Hon...

  • Vampire Cleanup Department

    Directed by Yan Pak-wing, Chiu Sin-hang • Drama • With Babyjohn Choi, Chin Siu-ho, Lin Min-chen, Richard Ng • 2017 • 94 minutes

    A secret vampire busting group hires a young recruit (Babyjohn Choi) only to see him fall in love with one of vampires he must destroy. Learning on the job and fighting...

  • Wood and Water

    Directed by Jonas Bak • Drama • With Anke Bak, Patrick Lo • 2021 • 79 minutes

    With seamless grace, shooting on 16 mm, and underscored by a soundtrack from Brian Eno, German director Jonas Bak moves from the tall spires of the Black Forest to the teeming skyscrapers of Hong Kong in his tranquil, ...