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 include The Sunny Side of the Street; Drifting; Krabi, 2562; Suk Suk; Old Stone; Ek Hazarachi Note; Murmur of the Hearts; By the Time It Gets Dark; and Mundane History. Festivals including Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam, and New Directors/New Films have selected features he shot. Kai has previously been nominated for national awards for Best Cinematography in Thailand, Canada, and at the Taipei Golden Horse Awards, and at festivals in Malaysia, India, and the Philippines. As a director, Kai’s short film “Three Boys” represented the Philippines in competition at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and won the top-prize Gold Award at the Hong Kong Independent Film & Video Awards. It also screened at Sao Paulo, Austin, and Jecheon. “Lock” was in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival. Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down was his feature debut as co-director and co-writer. Memories premiered internationally at Rotterdam and won the Best Screenplay Award from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society.

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2026
The Dating Menu
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2026
Palimpsest: The Story of a Name
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2025
Ciao UFO
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2025
Mother Bhumi
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2025
Whispers in the Belly
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2025
Pavane For An Infant
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2025
The Way We Talk
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2024
All Shall Be Well
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2023
Everyphone Everywhere
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2023
Lifting
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2023
A Light Never Goes Out
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2023
The Sunny Side of the Street
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2022
The Black Wall
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2022
Far Far Away
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2021
Drifting
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2021
Come Here
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2020
Twilight's Kiss
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2019
Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down
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2019
Krabi, 2562
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2018
Live For Real
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2016
By the Time It Gets Dark
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2016
Eugenia and John
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2016
Old Stone
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2015
My Good Man's Gone
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2015
Murmur of the Hearts
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2014
Invisible Spaces
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2014
1000 Rupee Note
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2014
Mutual Friends
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2013
Keep the Change
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2012
What Isn't There
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2012
In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire
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2009
Off Season
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2009
Mundane History
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2006
Graceland
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2005
Ghosts
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Lock
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Three Boys
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