M+ and Hong Kong International Film Festival join hands once again for the 48th edition of the festival with three special co-presentations. There will be screenings and post-screening talks for Anand Patwardhan’s The World is Family (2023) and a restored version of Man Ray’s Return to Reason (1923). A roundtable with veteran documentarians on ‘Documentary Ethics, Aesthetics, and Education – A Roundtable with Veteran Documentarians’ will feature Japan’s Soda Kazuhiro, India’s Anand Patwardhan, and Hong Kong’s Ruby Yang.

As one of the oldest film festivals in Asia, the global reputation of the HKIFF was built on the pioneering work of programming Asian films and its retrospectives when Asian and Hong Kong cinema was not well known to the international community. With a solid reputation for programming, HKIFF has become the model for many subsequent film festivals around the region.