Leung Ming-kai

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Leung Ming-kai

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As a cinematographer, Kai has shot numerous features in Hong Kong and other parts of the world. He won Best Cinematography at the 2025 Taipei Golden Horse Awards for Mother Bhumi, won Best Cinematography at the 2026 Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers Awards for Ciao UFO, and is also nominated for Best Cinematography at the upcoming 2026 Hong Kong Film Awards for Ciao UFO. In 2025, two of the Best Film nominees at the Hong Kong Film Awards were shot by Kai. They are Berlin Teddy-Award winner All Shall Be Well and NYAFF Audience Award winner The Way We Talk. He also shot the opening film of the 2025 Hong Kong International Film Festival, Pavane for an Infant. Kai’s other feature works incl…

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Lock poster
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This short film, with a budget of US$50, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, where writer–director Leung Ming-kai was nominated for the Student Visionary Award

Lock

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Lock poster
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This short film, with a budget of US$50, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, where writer–director Leung Ming-kai was nominated for the Student Visionary Award

Lock

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Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down poster
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This anthology film, whose Chinese title begins with a romantic name for human excrement, premiered internationally at Rotterdam and won Best Screenplay from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society. A variety of Hong Kong people wrestle with nostalgia when facing an uncertain future. Their stories give way to a documentary featuring a young barista turned political candidate.

Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down

2019

Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down poster
7.7

This anthology film, whose Chinese title begins with a romantic name for human excrement, premiered internationally at Rotterdam and won Best Screenplay from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society. A variety of Hong Kong people wrestle with nostalgia when facing an uncertain future. Their stories give way to a documentary featuring a young barista turned political candidate.

Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down

2019

Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down poster
7.7

This anthology film, whose Chinese title begins with a romantic name for human excrement, premiered internationally at Rotterdam and won Best Screenplay from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society. A variety of Hong Kong people wrestle with nostalgia when facing an uncertain future. Their stories give way to a documentary featuring a young barista turned political candidate.

Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down

2019

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Leung Ming-kai's short film represented the Philippines in the International Competition at France's Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and was nominated for Best Short Film and the Ishmael Bernal Award for Young Cinema at Cinemanila International Film Festival.

Three Boys

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Leung Ming-kai's short film represented the Philippines in the International Competition at France's Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and was nominated for Best Short Film and the Ishmael Bernal Award for Young Cinema at Cinemanila International Film Festival.

Three Boys

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