Originally published in Resonate Voices on 15 October 2026 (Source: Trinity CineAsia) “Thank you, audiences. Thank you, audiences,” said Herman Yau, reflecting on We’re Nothing at All’s journey from its Hong Kong premiere in April. On October 16, it will open theatrically in Los Angeles. We’re Nothing at All is a Hong Kong movie directed and self-financed by Yau, the veteran Hong Kong filmmaker known for cult classics like The Untold Story and as well as mainstream commercia

Originally published in Resonate Voices on 23 September 2026 (Source: Mary Stephen) “It’s an editor’s film. I don’t think anyone without editing training can put together something like this,” Mary Stephen said calmly, humbly, yet proudly of her latest documentary, Palimpsest: The Story of a Name. The opening film of this year’s Hong Kong Film Festival UK (25 September-4 October), Palimpsest is a deeply personal investigation into the mystery behind Stephen’s Western surname

Originally published in Resonate Voices on 21 September 2026 (Source: UKFFUK) As the Hong Kong Film Festival UK returns for its fourth edition, programme director Ching Wong reflects on the festival’s four-year journey and what makes this year’s programme distinctive. September and October mark the peak film festival seasons in London. Numerous major and independent festivals take place across the city, including the Hong Kong Film Festival UK (HKFFUK) which returns for its f

Originally published in NüVoices on 20 September 2026 (Source: Mary Stephen) The annual Hong Kong Film Festival UK returns to London for the fourth time with a new wave of cinema exploring identity, migration, modern Hong Kong's drastic socio-political upheaval, as well as its complicated colonial past. The festival, which runs from 25 September to 4 October, will this year spotlight diaspora as agency and the ways in which migrant filmmakers portray memory, identity, colonia

Originally published in Resonate Voices on 10 September 2026 (Source: Central City Media) Unidentified Murder is the kind of pure, unapologetic comedy that has largely been missing from Hong Kong cinema in the post-2019 era. Made on a modest budget of just HK$3 million (£280,400) and shot across only two primary locations, the film marks the feature debut of co-directors Kwok Ka-hei and Jack Lee Chun-kit. Yet these constraints do not compromise its quality. The film picked up

Originally published in Resonate Voices on 6 August 2026 (Source: Film Movement) Thirty-five years after walkouts nearly ruined its premiere, Hong Kong’s master of melodrama looks back on Ruan Lingyu, Maggie Cheung, and the film that almost got away. “After I made my first film in 1985, I always ask myself: ‘Stanley Kwan, why do you want to tell this story through film?’ I never think about the box office… [The crew and] I just make sure that we have the passion to make the f

Originally published in Resonate Voices on 12 June 2026 (Source: Central City Cinema) Tracy Choi brings Macau cinema to the international stage with Girlfriend, a tender portrait of female intimacy that continues her exploration of women's lives after Sisterhood (2016). Girlfriends is a semi-autobiographical feature by Macau-born director Tracy Choi. Its protagonist, Lok (Fish Liew), is likewise a queer filmmaker from Macau living in Hong Kong. In her mid-thirties, she finds