We rank the 37 Hong Kong films that were released locally in 2023, from greats like A Guilty Conscience – the city’s highest-grossing local film ever – and Lost Love to stinkers like Prison Flowers.
Ann Hui’s Elegies, a documentary about Hong Kong’s contemporary poetry scene, focuses on interviews with Hong Kong poets Huang Canran and Liu Waitong – and obliquely touches on the city’s ‘situation’.