The 39th HKIFF Closing Film – Port of Call

Director Philip YUNG, Aaron KWOK and Patrick TAM Lead the Cast at the World Premiere

6 April 2015 (Hong Kong) ─ Latest production from upcoming director Philip YUNG brought another brilliant psychological thriller, Port of Call, to the audience this year as the closing film of 39th HKIFF. The film stars popular leading man Aaron KWOK and looks at the effects of a crime on the families of both the victim and perpetrator. Selected as the Closing Film for the 39th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), the film had its World premiere at Hong Kong Cultural Center this evening.

The film tells the story a teenage prostitute is murdered; her body cut up and flushed down the toilet, and her severed head thrown into Victoria Harbor. Director Philip YUNG chooses to focus not on the crime or the investigation, but on the dead girl and her family, the cop and his family, and the killer who is without a family. The genre-bender that progresses as it digresses, an atmospheric mosaic of human lives and actions that invariably get complicated, out of order and beyond reason, and with the characters firmly grounded in gritty and unforgiving reality.