{"id":2242164,"date":"2026-01-20T13:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2242164"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:29:13","slug":"ciao-ufo-wins-best-picture-in-2025-hong-kong-film-critics-society-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ciao-ufo-wins-best-picture-in-2025-hong-kong-film-critics-society-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciao UFO wins best picture in 2025 Hong Kong Film Critics Society awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ciao UFO<\/em>, a nostalgic drama that waited over six years to reappear on the big screen after its film festival premiere, has been voted the best Hong Kong film of 2025 by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society (HKFCS), the organisation announced on January 19.<\/p>\n

The win is a vindication for the film, directed by Patrick Leung Pak-kin (Born Wild<\/em>), that premiered at the 2019 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival<\/span><\/a> but faced a prolonged delay in release, reportedly due to an investor\u2019s reluctance to greenlight a theatrical run.<\/div>\n
Spanning around two decades of contemporary Hong Kong life, Ciao UFO<\/em> stars Tsui Tien-you, Wong You-nam and Charlene Choi Cheuk-yin as former childhood friends from Hong Kong\u2019s Wah Fu Estate<\/span><\/a> bonded by a shared UFO sighting in 1985, who have grown up to find that adulthood is not quite what they had hoped for.<\/div>\n

Since December 25, the film has screened in local cinemas more than a dozen times in a de facto limited release \u2013 after producer and co-screenwriter Amy Chin Siu-wai sought legal advice for it \u2013 although a full-scale cinema release remains uncertain.<\/p>\n

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Louis Koo in a still from Behind the Shadows. Koo\u2019s performance as a weary private investigator in the Malaysia-set crime thriller secured him the best actor prize at the 2025 Hong Kong Film Critics Society awards.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.scmp.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ciao UFO, a nostalgic drama that waited over six years to reappear on the big screen after its film festival premiere, has been voted the best Hong Kong film of 2025 by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society (HKFCS), the organisation announced on January 19. The win is a vindication for the film, directed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2242165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[276703,434001,42637,434003,434008,434000,21799,434005,310801,433999,434009,434007,434004,371295,360142,434006,434002],"class_list":["post-2242164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-276703","tag-behind-the-shadows","tag-best","tag-charlene-choi","tag-chow-man-yu","tag-ciao-ufo","tag-film","tag-fish-liew","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-film-critics-society","tag-hong-kong-film-critics-society-awards","tag-jonathan-li-tsz-chun","tag-louis-koo","tag-malaysia","tag-picture","tag-someone-like-me","tag-unidentified-murder"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ciao-UFO-wins-best-picture-in-2025-Hong-Kong-Film.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242166,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242164\/revisions\/2242166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2242165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}