A Guilty Conscience News Today

The same five titles dominate the nominations in all major categories of the Hong Kong Film Awards 2024. Post film editor Edmund Lee predicts the winners and reflects on who or what actually should win.

This year’s Hong Kong Film Awards are completely dominated by the same five front runners, although one – In Broad Daylight – stands out from the pack with 16 nominations.

We rank the 37 Hong Kong films that were released locally in 2023, from greats like A Guilty Conscience – the city’s highest-grossing local film ever – and Lost Love to stinkers like Prison Flowers.

The rising movie star speaks about future roles, motherhood and what it takes to represent Hong Kong in fashion and films.

Complaints by students featured in ‘To My Nineteen-year-old Self’ about their lack of input regarding the film’s production or release highlight a need to balance creative vision with integrity. Ensuring everyone knows their rights and obligations is vital if filmmakers are to continue making worthwhile content.

Dayo Wong plays a disenchanted magistrate who becomes a defence lawyer, loses his first case representing a woman wrongly jailed for killing her daughter, then tries to prove her innocence.