Milky Li Hoi Ching

Three Hong Kong films were selected for this year's Venice Film Festival. Teh 67th edition will welcome The Child's Eye, Red Earth and the most buzzed film which is also bound for TIFF in Legend of the Fist: the Return of Chen Zhen.

In mid April, the 29th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony was held and Bodyguards and Assassins swept most of the major award categories: grabbing Best Film, including the Best director award, Best supporting actor award, Best Cinematography award, Best Art Director, Best Costume Make Up Design Award, Best Action Choreography and Best Original Film Score award, for a tally of eight.

"As for those Kung Fu-titled films, frankly I do not like them, whatever they are trying to tell, I feel like those veteran actors in the films were being disrespectfully used, they have the talents that should have been worthily made more use of. We pick this cast and make this film because we like and admire these actors..."

Peng Ho-Cheung’s cigarette-oriented romantic comedy Love In A Puff remained faithful to what Ho-Cheung does best: his writing. Much of this might have to do with his chosen collaborator. His co-writer, Heiward Mak offers much insight, modern-day relationships in the Hong Kong.

A previous winner of the HKIFF FIPRESCI Prize for Betelnut, director Yang Heng won the Golden Digital Award with his minimalist cinema and almost silent work Sun Spots, a Chinese-Hong Kong co-production that was first shown at Rotterdam and had been battling for top honors alongside Zhao Dayong’s debut film, a realistic and honest look of the struggling lives in contemporary China, The High Life, which won the Silver Digital Award in this Asian Digital Competition.