Movies: Hong kong

  • 2022
    The Grass is Greener on the Other Side

    The Grass is Greener on the Other Side (2022)

    The Grass is Greener on the Other Side

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    Thousands of Hongkongers, still living in the shadow of the 2019 protests, are immigrating to the UK to forge a freer future. This film documents their struggle to break free from a homeland that is no longer welcoming, while holding on to the Hongko...

    The Grass is Greener on the Other Side
  • 2020
    Notes before the Wind

    Notes before the Wind (2020)

    Notes before the Wind

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    A loose collection of scenes in Hong Kong shot over a five-year period, this film begins with the Umbrella Movement in 2014 and ends right before the summer of 2019, when large-scale social unrest and violent resistance erupted. The everyday scenes c...

    Notes before the Wind
  • 2016
    Yellowing

    Yellowing (2016)

    Yellowing

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    The turmoil that has overtaken Hong Kong since its return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 has spawned a new generation of young, passionately committed activist filmmakers; they want to tell Hong Kong's story with Hong Kong voices. And the best indie ...

    Yellowing
  • 2021
    Kwai Shing West Estate

    Kwai Shing West Estate (2021)

    Kwai Shing West Estate

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    A homage to the social housing architecture that is so atypical of Hong Kong - especially the Kwai Shing West Estate. About half of the population lives in such building complexes, where one experiences a strong sense of loneliness. The neighborhoods...

    Kwai Shing West Estate
  • 2023
    Muted Bridges

    Muted Bridges (2023)

    Muted Bridges

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    Muted Bridges records five oddly refurbished bridges in the Hong Kong Island which were once heavily covered with slogans, signs and information during the social unrest. It is a direct response to my previous work 'Tugging Diary,' where everything a...

    Muted Bridges
  • 2018
    Rudy Maxa's World: Hong Kong & Bangkok

    Rudy Maxa's World: Hong Kong & Bangkok (2018)

    Rudy Maxa's World: Hong Kong & Bangkok

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    Beginning with a private, rolling party on board one of Hong Kong's iconic streetcars, travel journalist Rudy Maxa and former chef and now Washington, D.C. restaurateur Daisuke Utagawa lead viewers through on of the worlds most exciting cities. Hong ...

    Rudy Maxa's World: Hong Kong & Bangkok
  • 2018
    Star Ferry

    Star Ferry (2018)

    Star Ferry

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    Impressions of Hong Kong and Tokyo by day and night shot entirely with a 35mm still camera. Star Ferry is structured between moments of stasis and frenetic movement, drawing out tensions between abrupt passages forward past neon signs and LED adverti...

    Star Ferry
  • 2020
    West Estate

    West Estate (2020)

    West Estate

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    West Estate spotlights the severe housing problems in Hong Kong, taking the spirit of resistance outside of the protest. The damaged walls in the cage-like tenements reflect the many forms of social injustice as well as Hongkongers’ widespread sense ...

    West Estate
  • 2021
    Teset

    Teset (2021)

    Teset

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    Armed with only one word - Teset - and fighting for the survival of his test scores, Josh journeys through a twilight world of time travel on a mission to save his grades....

    Teset
  • 2021
    Happy Valley

    Happy Valley (2021)

    Happy Valley

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    In Hong Kong, echoes of resistance and turmoil are sensitively captured on 16mm in this poetic rumination of public spaces and everyday life in a metropolis in upheaval....

    Happy Valley
  • 2021
    Box Cutter

    Box Cutter (2021)

    Box Cutter

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    A young boy in a dark room must face alone a mysterious threat....

    Box Cutter
  • 2020
    Trial and Error

    Trial and Error (2020)

    Trial and Error

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    This Anti-ELAB (Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill) Movement documentary short takes us back to the airport occupation on 12 August 2019. Although this new form of protest soon turned into a crisis, it became an important lesson for the protesters. ...

    Trial and Error
  • 2018
    Rehearsal of the Futures: Police Training Exercises

    Rehearsal of the Futures: Police Training Exercises (2018)

    Rehearsal of the Futures: Police Training Exercises

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    The motions and gestures of military riot police, slowed down while performed by dancers, are surprisingly beautiful. Menace and violence estranged from context and time looks eerily strange, and all too familiar. In this gallery piece, Isaac Chong W...

    Rehearsal of the Futures: Police Training Exercises
  • 2022
    Hong Kong Fight For Freedom

    Hong Kong Fight For Freedom (2022)

    Hong Kong Fight For Freedom

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    Documentary about Hong Kong....

    Hong Kong Fight For Freedom
  • 2014
    Black Rain White Scars

    Black Rain White Scars (2014)

    Black Rain White Scars

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    Black Rain White Scars depicts a twilight of reality. With the steady shot of a Gotham-like cityscape, Lukas Marxt guides us between vestiges of visionary architecture and narrow planted apartment buildings. As we’re searching for our relational poin...

    Black Rain White Scars
  • 2021
    Golden Surge

    Golden Surge (2021)

    Golden Surge

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    Hong Kong is facing tyranny, and a pair of brothers are marching on their own ways in the revolution. However, the horror is approaching, and it’s like this city knows everything, it reborns after it collapses. There seems to be a huge energy behind ...

    Golden Surge
  • 2020
    Last Night in Sham Shui Po

    Last Night in Sham Shui Po (2020)

    Last Night in Sham Shui Po

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    A single shot, taken during a confrontation between police and demonstrators in Hong Kong's Sham Shui Po neighbourhood, transforms a street confrontation into something transcendently beautiful. The voice of Louis Armstrong adds a level of almost unb...

    Last Night in Sham Shui Po
  • 2018
    China Not China

    China Not China (2018)

    China Not China

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    Hong Kong marked twenty years since its hand over; halfway through the planned forty year "one country, two systems" transition. Taiwan, once imperial China, once Formosa, now ROC on the edge of the PRC. Multiple exposures of street scenes distort sp...

    China Not China
  • 2020
    Home and a Distant Archive

    Home and a Distant Archive (2020)

    Home and a Distant Archive

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    A poetic, experimental portrait of four Hong Kong women in London working to digitise records of the handover agreement between the United Kingdom and China. Impressionistic and precise, personal and expansive, Cheung's elegant, eloquent work decodes...

    Home and a Distant Archive