Hong Kong’s entry for best international feature film at the 2024 Oscars is A Light Never Goes Out. We recall other entries from the past 10 years, from Better Days to Zero to Hero and Port of Call.
Tom Cruise and James Cameron may be vying for global box office dominance this year, but there has been no shortage of films emerging from Asia to delight, inspire and provoke audiences around the world.
The Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) returns this month, after being bumped from its regular spring berth because of another round of pandemic-related cinema closures earlier this year. The festival's 46th edition runs from Aug 15 to 31 at venues across the city, as well as online, with more than 200 films from 67 countries screening. This year's line-up.
Is there a hint of truth to the frequently whispered, though seemingly hyperbolic claim that Hong Kong cinema is dead? After all, how do you explain the minimal fanfare when, in April 2021, actor turned director Derek Tsang Kwok Cheung made history as the first Hong Kong-born filmmaker to be in the running for a best international feature film Oscar,.