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Fruit Chan

Fruit CHAN (1959, China) moved to Hong Kong in 1969. He was assistant director and line producer, before financial assistance from film star Andy Lau helped Chan to sit in the director’s chair himself. Finale in Blood (1993) was his debut film. His films are particularly known for reflecting Hong Kong’s everyday life. Made in Hong Kong won many local and international awards, including Best Picture Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 1998.

Filmography

(selection) Finale in Blood (1993), Heung Gong jai jo/Made in Hong Kong (1997), Qu nian yan hua te bie duo/The Longest Summer (1998), Xillian Xillian/Little Cheung (1999), Liulian Piao Piao/Durian Durian (2000), Heung Gong yau gok hor lei wood/Hollywood Hong Kong (2001), Ren min gong che/Public Toilet (2002), Dumplings (2004), The Midnight After (2014), Kill Time (2016)

More info: Wikipedia, Fruit Chan

Fruit Chan at IFFR

  • The Longest Summer

    Ga Yin loses his job as a soldier in the British army after Hong Kong is handed back to China. Without his comfortable job he feels lost, he misses th

    • main programme features

  • Little Cheung

    Modest film about life in the port of Hong Kong, seen through the eyes of little Cheung. With his girlfriend Fan, he has fun adventures and less fun o

    • on the waterfront new films

  • Durian Durian

    Handheld, improvised images and the story of a Chinese prostitute, show the metropolis Hong Kong as an ugly, stinking fruit that is unexpectedly sweet

    • main programme features

  • Public Toilet

    Just imagine being born in the filthiest public toilet in Beijing? The child grows up and seeks answers in a motley collection of adventures in the cr

    • main programme features

  • 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 resis

    • Ordinary Heroes: Made in Hong Kong

  • Three… Extremes

    Nail biting about human shortcomings comes surrealistically yet terrifyingly to the surface in three segments. Japanese Miike Takashi (of Audition and

    • Rotterdämmerung

  • Hollywood, Hong Kong

    Initially romantic, later absurd and eventually moving tale from the Hong Kong slums. Three men fall for the charms of a pretty girl from a neighbouri

    • main programme features

  • Made In Hong Kong

    Black yet humanist low-budget portrait of three teenagers in Hong Kong and their uneasy feelings in a world devoid of prospects for the future.

    • main programme

  • Hollywood, Hong Kong

  • Public Toilet