Some seriously inside–Hong Kong stuff plays out in this collection of five shorts in which different directors look into the unique city-state’s near future.

The tales range from the ominously political (the first is like Quentin Tarantino as interpreted by Jim Jarmusch) to the playfully amusing, as in the brief visit with a cab driver who can’t keep up with changes in the language. And the visuals shift from black-and-white to vividly coloured to sombrely monochrome in between—in the case of the artsiest and least successful entry, about a couple who play at being archaeologists after some unexplained upheaval. But the whole package is well worth seeing as a smartly varied projection of anxieties regarding Hong Kong’s future as it gets drawn further into the PRC fold.