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
Five short films by five young directors who were invited to imagine, in 2015, what their city might look like ten years later. Little did they know how prophetic this exercise in imaginative dystopian filmmaking would be.
Mainland gangsters collude with pro-China HK politicians to stage an assassination attempt, in order to provoke chaos and a police crackdown (life may have imitated fiction in the suspicious actual stabbing of a notoriously pro-China politician on 6/11/2019). Next is an exquisite essay about researchers archiving Hong Kong's disappearing material and human culture. A sad story of a HK cabbie who loses his job because he can't speak Mandarin is followed by a shocking tale of a self-immolating protestor. The final episode shows resurgent little HK 'red guards' rooting out shop products that seem too 'local'. Ten Years struggled to be released in Hong Kong, but won best film at the HK Film Awards in 2016.
Jevons Au, Chow Kwun-wai, Kwok Zune, Ng Ka-leung, Wong Fei-pang
IFFR 2020
- 104'
- Hong Kong
- 2015
- Directors
- Jevons Au, Chow Kwun-wai, Kwok Zune, Ng Ka-leung, Wong Fei-pang
- Country of production
- Hong Kong
- Year
- 2015
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 104'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Sap nin
- Language
- Cantonese
- Producers
- Jevons Au, Fun-Kei Chan, Andrew Choi, Man-Hin Kwan
- Production Companies
- 109G Studio, Breakthrough, Four Parts Production
- Sales
- Golden Scene Company Ltd.
- Screenplay
- Leung Pui-pui, Fean Chung, Wong Ching, Wong Fei-pang, Jevons Au, Ho Fung-lun, Chung Chui-yi, Lulu Yang, Chow Kwun-wai, Ng Ka-leung
- Cinematography
- Mike Mak, Lau Tsz-kin, Ho Chiu-yuen, Twinsen Ng
- Editor
- Wong Fei-pang, Gigi Li, Chow Kwun-wai, Ng Ka-leung
- Sound Design
- Bone Chan, Chan Ying-wai, Ng Ka-leung, Wong Chun Hoi
- Music
- Chun Hor, Daisuke Kashiwa, Herman Yip
- Cast
- Peter Chan, Wong Ching, Lau Ho-Chi, Leung Kin-ping, Liu Kai-chi, Brenda Chan, Catherine Chau
- Directors
- Jevons Au, Chow Kwun-wai, Kwok Zune, Ng Ka-leung, Wong Fei-pang
- Country of production
- Hong Kong
- Year
- 2015
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 104'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Sap nin
- Language
- Cantonese
- Producers
- Jevons Au, Fun-Kei Chan, Andrew Choi, Man-Hin Kwan
- Production Companies
- 109G Studio, Breakthrough, Four Parts Production
- Sales
- Golden Scene Company Ltd.
- Screenplay
- Leung Pui-pui, Fean Chung, Wong Ching, Wong Fei-pang, Jevons Au, Ho Fung-lun, Chung Chui-yi, Lulu Yang, Chow Kwun-wai, Ng Ka-leung
- Cinematography
- Mike Mak, Lau Tsz-kin, Ho Chiu-yuen, Twinsen Ng
- Editor
- Wong Fei-pang, Gigi Li, Chow Kwun-wai, Ng Ka-leung
- Sound Design
- Bone Chan, Chan Ying-wai, Ng Ka-leung, Wong Chun Hoi
- Music
- Chun Hor, Daisuke Kashiwa, Herman Yip
- Cast
- Peter Chan, Wong Ching, Lau Ho-Chi, Leung Kin-ping, Liu Kai-chi, Brenda Chan, Catherine Chau
Programme IFFR 2020
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IFFR 2020