The Return of the City: Hong Kong International Film Festival 2014

In addition to an array of spectacular films – from odes to the metropolis, to absurd apocalyptic scenarios, to depictions of bromance and portraits of family – what shone at the 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival was, according to Mike Walsh and John McConchie, the city of Hong Kong itself.

Additional keywords: Asia, Aberdeen, Pan Ho-cheung, Black Coal, Thin Ice, Diao Yinan, American Dreams in China, Peter Chan, The White Storm, Benny Chan, Firestorm, Alan Yuen, The Midnight After, Fruit Chan, Blind Detective, Johnnie To, Dot 2 Dot, Amos Why, Yasujiro Ozu, The Shape of the Night, Noboru Nakamura.