The Cold War diplomacy not only had a disruptive impact on the geo-political relationship between large countries but also affected Hong Kong's ties to Southeast Asia. Most dramatically, the Cold War severed the link between Hong Kong and China and drove the British colony closer to Southeast Asia under the umbrella of the Commonwealth, which allowed the Hong Kong Chinese a “borderless” access to Singapore and Malaya. Based on archival research in Britain, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia, my research examines the cinelinks between Singapore-Malaya and Hong Kong from the perspective of geo-politics in the 1950s and 1960s. Malayan Film Unit (MFA) was formed by the British government to produce propagandas and documentaries in Malaya that reflected British cultural policies in the Singapore and Malaya. Through the investigation of the relationships between MFA, Southeast Asia Film Festival, Cathay Organisation, and government institutions, this paper describes how geo-politics consolidated the cinelinks between Hong Kong and Singapore-Malaya in the Cold War era. During that time, the turmoil affecting the Singapore-Malayan nation helped shape the “self” and “other” dialectic between Singapore-Malaya and Hong Kong. This paper also collocates Hong Kong cinema with Singaporean-Malayan nationalism, and surveys the connections and conflicts between these two cinemas in the 1950s and 1960s.