Ordinary Heroes: Made in Hong Kong
Overview of films
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What’s Next?
What’s Next for Hong Kong? Local filmmakers, musicians and artists make art that makes politics: with music videos, animation, on-the-ground
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Talk: Ordinary Heroes
A panel discussion with Hong Kong filmmakers whose new works respond to Hong Kong’s political turmoil with artistry and courage.
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If We Burn
The Hong Kong protest movement through the eyes of Hong Kongers whose fates, like their city’s future, now hang in the balance.
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Made in Hong Kong
HK 1997, where young people dream of death. Presaging the spirit of militant, self-sacrificing HK youth we see today, re-incarnated as political re
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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.
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Home, and a Distant Archive
Cinema decodes history in this elegant, experimental portrait of four Hong Kong women working on their city’s archives in London.
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Eye Bags
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
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Gangs
A searing portrayal of marginalised, underclass Hong Kong youth raging in a city under British colonial rule.
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Ten Years
Five shorts by young directors asked to imagine, in 2015, what their city might look like ten years later. Surprisingly prophetic.
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Ordinary Heroes
Director Ann Hui develops interlocking stories of several activists and HKers in the 1980s, building subdued melodrama to a shattering climax.
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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 fusi
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Tell Me What 7 You Say
Pop star Charmaine Fong’s catchy, searingly angry protest song was released during the demonstrations: profane and politically risky.