Ordinary Heroes: Made in Hong Kong

HK's valiant 'frontliners' are masked, black-clad youth unafraid to use violence against their police and government. Hear their voices, hopes, and dreams.

A social critique of class-based ultra-dense living conditions; a political critique of anti-democratic politics; and a masterpiece of Hong Kong cinema.

A unique, virtually wordless dance poem: a thrilling pop/art tribute to the power of Hong Kong's indomitable people.

Gloriously excessive action film with social realism! A young fighter is forced to betray his father in this extraordinary Shaw Brothers production.

An insomniac woman discovers that the particularly large bags under her eyes have become an attractive home for A Gum, a goldfish with a thing for Brad Pitt.

In 1985, Cheung was convicted of murder as a juvenile with an indefinite sentence. Idealists fight for his rights as HK approaches 1997.

A searing portrayal of marginalised, underclass Hong Kong youth raging in a city under British colonial rule.

A remixed version of the popular Hong Kong resistance anthem in Cantonese opera style. Local traditional and contemporary culture in brilliant fusion.

The original video by the Black Blorchestra of the crowd-sourced people's resistance anthem of Hong Kong.

Cinema decodes history in this elegant, experimental portrait of four Hong Kong women working on their city's archives in London.

The Hong Kong protest movement through the eyes of Hong Kongers whose fates, like their city's future, now hang in the balance.

Hong Kong's story is a history of loss, embodied (or rather disembodied) in the hairs on Kin's head, which fall out one by one.

Protestors, cops, a night street in Sham Shui Po, a single slow-motion take, plus Louis Armstrong.

Six PLA veterans rob a Hong Kong jewelry store in this still-shocking masterpiece of Hong Kong New Wave.

Riveting portrait of Edward Leung, whose slogan 'Reclaim Hong Kong; revolution of our time' is the rallying cry of the protest movement.

HK 1997, where young people dream of death. Presaging the spirit of militant, self-sacrificing HK youth we see today, re-incarnated as political resistance.

Four stories show how fiction and fact, humour and drama, personal and political are complementary facets of the contradictory realities that constitute Hong Kong today.

Director Ann Hui develops interlocking stories of several activists and HKers in the 1980s, building subdued melodrama to a shattering climax.

Dancers perform the violent gestures of military riot police in slow motion, and the result is somehow inappropriately beautiful.

Hong Kong's distinctively shaped housing blocks form mesmerizing patterns that appear to move in this dazzling, subliminally subversive dance of images.

Pop star Charmaine Fong's catchy, searingly angry protest song was released during the demonstrations: profane and politically risky.

Five shorts by young directors asked to imagine, in 2015, what their city might look like ten years later. Surprisingly prophetic.

The Umbrella Movement of 2014 paved the way for Hong Kong's current upheavals. Intellectuals, students, activists, and artists articulate a variety of motivations.

An idealistic democrat faces off against a triad-aligned local politician in a compact, sophisticate drama based on a real Hong Kong 2019 incident.

An artful document of 'the real', centred on portraits of students who organised a temporary cooperative and communitarian Hong Kong.