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
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 history and how politics are enacted.
Also see Talk: Ordinary Heroes.Â
IFFR 2020
- 24'
- Hong Kong
- 2020
- Director
- Dorothy Cheung Tsz-yan
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Hong Kong, Netherlands
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 24'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- Cantonese
- Producer
- Dorothy Cheung Tsz-yan
- Sales
- Dorothy Cheung Tsz-yan
- Screenplay
- Dorothy Cheung Tsz-yan
- Cinematography
- Dorothy Cheung Tsz-yan
- Editor
- Dorothy Cheung Tsz-yan
- Sound Design
- Anson Mak
- Music
- Deni Cheng
Also in this combined programme
Glory to Hong Kong (canto)
A remixed version of the popular Hong Kong resistance anthem in Cantonese opera style. Local traditional and contemporary culture in brilliant fusion.
2'
Hong Kong
IFFR 2020
Glory to Hong Kong (orchestral)
The original video by the Black Blorchestra of the crowd-sourced people's resistance anthem of Hong Kong.
3'
Hong Kong
IFFR 2020
Kin's Hair
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.
6'
Hong Kong
IFFR 2020
- Director
- Dorothy Cheung Tsz-yan
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Hong Kong, Netherlands
- Year
- 2020
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 24'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- Cantonese
- Producer
- Dorothy Cheung Tsz-yan
- Sales
- Dorothy Cheung Tsz-yan
- Screenplay
- Dorothy Cheung Tsz-yan
- Cinematography
- Dorothy Cheung Tsz-yan
- Editor
- Dorothy Cheung Tsz-yan
- Sound Design
- Anson Mak
- Music
- Deni Cheng
Programme IFFR 2020
Ordinary Heroes: Made in Hong Kong
Hong Kong, the most cinematic city in the world, reveals through its films – old and new – the political, social and economic tensions tearing it apart today.
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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
Cageman
A social critique of class-based ultra-dense living conditions; a political critique of anti-democratic politics; and a masterpiece of Hong Kong cinema.
145'
Hong Kong
IFFR 2020
The Cube Phantom
A unique, virtually wordless dance poem: a thrilling pop/art tribute to the power of Hong Kong's indomitable people.
73'
Hong Kong
IFFR 2020