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IFFR 2020

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

This anonymously written, performed, and filmed people's anthem has taken on iconic status: sung in Hong Kong malls, on the streets, at football matches, and at every demonstration and rally. This is the original version, with four million YouTube hits and counting.

Glory to Hong Kong (orchestral)

Perspectives

Hong Kong, the most cinematic city in the world, reveals through its films &ndash; old and new &ndash; the political, social and economic tensions tearing it apart today.

Ordinary Heroes: Made in Hong Kong 

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

Last Night in Sham Shui Po

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

What's Next

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

A unique, virtually wordless dance poem that explores the exultation and the tragedy of the city in ten site-specific sequences. Filmmaker Alan Lau, choreographer Jordann de Santis, composer Anthony Cheng and a troupe of fearless dancers have created a thrilling pop/art tribute to the power of Hong Kong's indomitable people.

The Cube Phantom

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

Age of Valiant

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

Tell Me What 7 You Say

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

Glory to Hong Kong (canto)

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

<strong>Cageman</strong> is focused social critique of a city beset with an outrageous income and wealth gap: a microcosm of Hong Kong's class-based ultra-dense living conditions; a political critique of anti-democratic politics; and an example of brilliant filmmaking, writing, cinematography, and performance. A masterpiece of Hong Kong cinema.

Cageman

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.

Kin's Hair

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

IFFR 2023
25 Jan – 5 Feb 2023

Glory to Hong Kong (orchestral)

Also in this combined programme

Age of Valiant

Glory to Hong Kong (canto)

Home, and a Distant Archive

Kin's Hair

Ordinary Heroes: Made in Hong Kong

Age of Valiant

Cageman

The Cube Phantom