A taxi driver struggles to keep working as his native language of Cantonese is sidelined for Mandarin. Petty gangsters do the work of the authorities amid a violent debate about a national security law . Supporters of Hong Kong independence are jailed.

In 2015, a scrappy group of Hong Kong film-makers imagined what their semi-autonomous city could look like under the increasing influence of the Chinese Communist party (CCP).

“Any resemblance to actual events or persons is entirely coincidental,” reads the first scene in the opening credits. But decade on, many of the predictions made in Ten Years have, in some form, come to pass.

The directors “saw the social environment of Hong Kong, especially after the Occupy movement in 2014”, says Ching Wong, the director of the Hong Kong fi

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