Coffin Homes (2021)

The films of Fruit Chan (陳果, born 1959, Hong Kong) — Hong Kong's most uncompromising independent voice. His Handover Trilogy — Made in Hong Kong (1997), The Longest Summer (1998), and Little Cheung (1999) — was shot without state backing on leftover 16mm film stock, capturing the anxiety, drift, and disillusionment of life on Hong Kong's streets around the 1997 handover with raw handheld immediacy. Made in Hong Kong in particular is one of the great works of independent Asian cinema: a youth film made for almost nothing that burns with genuine feeling. Chan later moved into body-horror genre work — Dumplings (full-length version and the Three Extremes segment) is a savage fable about vanity, consumption and desire — before returning with Coffin Homes (2021) to the cramped, desperate lives of Hong Kong's urban poor. His work is inseparable from the city that made him.