Hong Kong Protests Movies

  • 2020
    June

    June

    June

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    I made June when I didn’t have any inspiration to create a feature film. The documentary is about the rarely known stories in the social...

    June
  • 2021
    Red Taxi

    Red Taxi

    Red Taxi

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    An anonymous, authentic video secretly filmed from taxi windows captures fragments of violence right in the middle of clashes between police and...

    Red Taxi
  • 2014
    Lessons in Dissent

    Lessons in Dissent

    Lessons in Dissent

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    A vivid portrait of a generation of Hong Kongers committed to creating a new more democratic Hong Kong. Schoolboy Joshua Wong dedicates himself to...

    Lessons in Dissent
  • 2010
    Raging Land 2 : Breaking new ground through Thorns and Thistles

    Raging Land 2 : Breaking new ground through Thorns and Thistles

    Raging Land 2 : Breaking new ground through Thorns and Thistles

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    Choi Yuen Village faced demolition by the express rail project. In 2009, villagers protested and petitioned, sparking the anti-express rail movement....

    Raging Land 2 : Breaking new ground through Thorns and Thistles
  • 2018
    Umbrella Diaries: The First Umbrella

    Umbrella Diaries: The First Umbrella

    Umbrella Diaries: The First Umbrella

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    The film charts the origins of the Umbrella Movement through the eyes of the activists and ordinary people who made it happen. From the June 4th...

    Umbrella Diaries: The First Umbrella
  • 2020
    Migrant Down the Rabbit Hole

    Migrant Down the Rabbit Hole

    Migrant Down the Rabbit Hole

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    The work documented the story of Yuli, a Hong Kong domestic worker from Indonesia. She is a novelist who won a literature award and also a journalist...

    Migrant Down the Rabbit Hole
  • 2011
    July 1st, An Unhappy Birthday

    July 1st, An Unhappy Birthday

    July 1st, An Unhappy Birthday

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    Handover Law met his girlfriend, Rayna, at the last July 1st march in 2010. This year, they will march again to celebrate their meeting, his birthday...

    July 1st, An Unhappy Birthday
  • 2020
    Taking Back the Legislature

    Taking Back the Legislature

    Taking Back the Legislature

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    After a night of planning and mourning, a storm is brewing at early hours of 1 July, 2019. In face of the absurdity of the government's indoor flag...

    Taking Back the Legislature
  • 2023
    If We Burn

    If We Burn

    If We Burn

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    Hundreds of thousands − perhaps even millions − of protestors have taken to the streets of Hong Kong since early June. Sparked initially...

    If We Burn
  • 2016
    Raise The Umbrellas

    Raise The Umbrellas

    Raise The Umbrellas

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    Four years later, Hong Kong’s 2014 democratic Umbrella Movement has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, yet political backlash against...

    Raise The Umbrellas
  • 2020
    Age of Valiant

    Age of Valiant

    Age of Valiant

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    At the forefront of most of Hong Kong's demonstrations, 'frontliners' (aka 'the valiant', yung mo in Cantonese) are the black-clad, masked, often...

    Age of Valiant
  • 2022
    Because I Choose Freedom

    Because I Choose Freedom

    Because I Choose Freedom

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    Matthew Leung Ming-hong had been working as a breaking-news reporter for six years in Hong Kong but recently emigrated to the United Kingdom because...

    Because I Choose Freedom
  • 2020
    Not One Less

    Not One Less

    Not One Less

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    The documentary “Not One Less” records the clash in Hong Kong Island on 31st August, 2019, and the assembly on Mid-Autumn festival night...

    Not One Less
  • 2020
    Hong Kong, Ga Yau

    Hong Kong, Ga Yau

    Hong Kong, Ga Yau

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    When Hong Kong, which has a legal system separate from China, brought the 2019 Extradition Bill, citizens took to the streets. Locals feared that the...

    Hong Kong, Ga Yau
  • 2016
    Umbrellas Move

    Umbrellas Move

    Umbrellas Move

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    “Umbrellas Move” is a long feature documentary capturing scenes from Hong Kong’s city-wide protest, the occupy movement in 2014....

    Umbrellas Move
  • 2010
    Anti-XRL Campaign - Media Perspective

    Anti-XRL Campaign - Media Perspective

    Anti-XRL Campaign - Media Perspective

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    In late 2009, over twenty Hong Kong civic groups united as the "Anti-High-Speed Rail, Stop Funding" coalition, aiming to halt Legislative Council...

    Anti-XRL Campaign - Media Perspective
  • 2018
    Like an abortion, for the very first time

    Like an abortion, for the very first time

    Like an abortion, for the very first time

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    The Umbrella Movement was a wave of street protests that took place in Hong Kong from September to December 2014 as a reaction to oppressive...

    Like an abortion, for the very first time
  • 2019
    The Time of the Individual

    The Time of the Individual

    The Time of the Individual

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    Documentary "The Time of the Individual" records records the 7.7 demonstration at Tsim Sha Tsui. To say NO to the Extradition Bill (which is a...

    The Time of the Individual
  • 2020
    Black Bauhinia

    Black Bauhinia

    Black Bauhinia

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    Two young Hong Kong activists reflect on their resistance against China, are forced to decide between long-term imprisonment and refugee camps for a...

    Black Bauhinia
  • 2025
    Afterwards,

    Afterwards,

    Afterwards,

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    Two independent stories - one from 2014 and the other from 2019 - are placed together, allowing us to look back at the Umbrella Movement and the...

    Afterwards,