Age of Valiant
HK's valiant 'frontliners' are masked, black-clad youth unafraid to use violence against their police and government. Hear their voices, hopes, and dreams.
11'
Hong Kong
IFFR 2020
"[This film] signifies a kind of deadline, an end to a historical period. It is a gloomy view, but it is nevertheless something deeply and genuinely felt by me and my peers. And it is exactly this sense of helplessness that prompted me to make this film." (Fruit Chan)
Hong Kong 1997, where young people dream of love and death, suicide and murder. Moon is a cynical young debt collector, smitten by Ping, a young woman dying of kidney disease. A suicide note from a student they don't know ends up intertwining their fates.
Chan's film was made on a tiny budget with scraps of unused film stock. The ad hoc genius of 'made in Hong Kong': combining available materials at speed to create something utterly new. The result enshrines the spirit of militant, self-sacrificing HK youth that we see today, re-incarnated as political resistance, in the protest movement's fearless 'frontliners'.
IFFR 2020
- 109'
- Hong Kong
- 1997
- Director
- Fruit Chan
- Country of production
- Hong Kong
- Year
- 1997
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 109'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Heung Gong jai jo
- Language
- Cantonese
- Producers
- Andy Lau, Doris Yang
- Production Company
- Nicetop Independent Limited
- Sales
- Udine Far East Film Festival
- Screenplay
- Fruit Chan
- Cinematography
- Lam Wah-chuen, O Sing-pui
- Editor
- Fruit Chan
- Production Design
- Ma Ki-kwan
- Cast
- Sam Lee, Yim Neiky Hui-chi, Li Wenders, Tam Ka-chuen, Carol Lam Kit-fong, Doris Chow Yan-wah, Chung Siu
- Director
- Fruit Chan
- Country of production
- Hong Kong
- Year
- 1997
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 109'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Heung Gong jai jo
- Language
- Cantonese
- Producers
- Andy Lau, Doris Yang
- Production Company
- Nicetop Independent Limited
- Sales
- Udine Far East Film Festival
- Screenplay
- Fruit Chan
- Cinematography
- Lam Wah-chuen, O Sing-pui
- Editor
- Fruit Chan
- Production Design
- Ma Ki-kwan
- Cast
- Sam Lee, Yim Neiky Hui-chi, Li Wenders, Tam Ka-chuen, Carol Lam Kit-fong, Doris Chow Yan-wah, Chung Siu
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