Ordinary Heroes: Made in Hong Kong

Overzicht van films

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  If We Burn

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  James Leong, Lynn Lee | 90' | Hong Kong | World premiere

  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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  Kin’s Hair

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  Chang See-wan, Chan Kwun-chung, Wong Tsz-yin | 6' | Hong Kong | None

  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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  Last Night in Sham Shui Po

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  Andrew Lang | 3' | Hong Kong | World premiere

  Protestors, cops, a night street in Sham Shui Po, a single slow-motion take, plus Louis Armstrong.
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  Long Arm of the Law

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  Johnny Mak | 100' | Hong Kong | None

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

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  Nora Lam | 93' | Hong Kong | None

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

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  Fruit Chan | 109' | Hong Kong | None

  HK 1997, where young people dream of death. Presaging the spirit of militant, self-sacrificing HK youth we see today, re-incarnated as political resis
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  Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down

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  Ming-kai Leung, Kate Reilly | 78' | Hong Kong | International premiere

  Four stories show how fiction and fact, humour and drama, personal and political are complementary facets of the contradictory realities that constitu
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  Ordinary Heroes

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  Ann Hui | 128' | China | None

  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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  Rehearsal of the Futures: Police Training Exercises

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  Isaac Chong Wai | 18' | Hong Kong | World premiere (festival)

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

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  Max Hattler | 9' | Germany | None

  Hong Kong’s distinctively shaped housing blocks form mesmerizing patterns that appear to move in this dazzling, subliminally subversive dance of image
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  Tell Me What 7 You Say

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  HK Journalists | 4' | Hong Kong | None

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

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  Jevons Au, Chow Kwun-wai, Kwok Zune, Ng Ka-leung, Wong Fei-pang | 104' | Hong Kong | None

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