Ming-kai Leung
LEUNG Ming-kai is a cinematographer and director from Hong Kong. He holds a master’s degree from Columbia University, New York. He attended Asian Film Academy organised by Busan International Film Festival, where he won the Best Performance Award as a cinematographer. Leung has directed several short films. His Three Boys (2007) received an award at the Hong Kong Independent Film and Video Awards and represented the Philippines in competition at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. Lock (2007), was an official selection of Tribeca Film Festival, and stars Kate Reilly, with whom he directed the feature Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down (2019).
Filmography
Lock (2007, short), Three Boys (2007, short), On One (2011, short), Sylvia (2017, short, co-dir), Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down/Ye heung, yuen yeung, sham shui po (2019, co-dir)
Ming-kai Leung op IFFR
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In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire
Wichanon Somumjarn | 76' | Thailand | -
A poetic title, almost a film description, that demands some close reading. Just like the film, which – as a visual poem – doesn’t immediately… -
By the Time It Gets Dark
Anocha Suwichakornpong | 105' | Thailand | None
Powerful second feature by Anocha Suwichakornpong, who won a Tiger in 2010 with Mundane History, starts with the Thammasat University massacre of 1976 in Bangkok.… -
Graceland
Anocha Suwichakornpong | 17' | Thailand | None
A man and a woman leave Bangkok, but it doesn’t seem clear or important where to. -
Krabi, 2562
Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong | 93' | Thailand | None
Prehistoric cave-dwellers, a retired boxer and a commercials actor populate a Thais coastal town threatened by mass tourism. -
Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down
Ming-kai Leung, Kate Reilly | 78' | Hong Kong | International premiere
Four stories show how fiction and fact, humour and drama, personal and political are complementary facets of the contradictory realities that constitu -
By the Time It Gets Dark
Anocha Suwichakornpong | 105' | France | None
Powerful second feature by Anocha Suwichakornpong, who won a Tiger in 2010 with Mundane History, starts with the Thammasat University massacre of 1976 -
Thursday
Anocha Suwichakornpong, Šejla Kamerić | 44' | Bosnia and Herzegovina | World premiere
A visual dialogue between two filmmakers. One from Bangkok; one from Sarajevo. Wordless impressions from old Europe and changing Asia. An image diary. -
In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire
Wichanon Somumjarn | 76' | Thailand | World premiere
A poetic title, almost a film description, that demands some close reading. Just like the film, which – as a visual poem – doesn’t immediately…