Hong Kong International Film Festival 2022: 10 highlights you shouldn’t miss, including local blockbusters Where the Wind Blows and Warriors of Future

The festival’s 46th edition includes four world premieres and 32 Asian premieres, such as Where the Wind Blows, which stars Aaron Kwok and Marvel’s Tony Leung

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Aaron Kwok in a still from Where the Wind Blows, one of the films premiering at the Hong Kong International Film Festival 2022.

Published: 12:45pm, 11 Aug 2022

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 August 15-31 at venues across the city, as well as online, with more than 200 films from 67 countries screening.

This year’s line-up includes four world premieres and 32 Asian premieres, among them some of the hottest titles from this year’s Berlinale and Cannes Film Festival. With tickets already on sale, here is our list of the most unmissable titles from this year’s selection.

1. Where the Wind Blows

Originally expected to open last year’s HKIFF, Philip Yung Tsz-kwong’s long-delayed follow-up to his 2015 award winner Port of Call is finally seeing the light of day.

Aaron Kwok Fu-shing and Tony Leung Chiu-wai appear together on screen for the first time to add some heavyweight glamour to Yung’s violent tale of friendship and rivalry between a pair of top Hong Kong detectives, and their allegiances with powerful figures in the criminal underworld.

Loosely inspired by the city’s “Four Great Sergeants”, four notoriously corrupt police officers in the 1960s, this film has all the trappings of a new crime classic.

2. Warriors of Future

Lau Ching-wan (left) and Louis Koo in a still from Warriors of Future.

Actor-producer Louis Koo Tin-lok’s extravagant science-fiction passion project has been in the works so long that many industry pundits thought it might never be completed.