Hong Kong Protests Movies

  • 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
  • 2020
    Inside the Red Brick Wall

    Inside the Red Brick Wall

    Inside the Red Brick Wall

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    In 2019, Hong Kong was swept by demonstrations against the controversial extradition bill. At the Polytechnic University, a group of students also...

    Inside the Red Brick Wall
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2020
    Hong Kong Moments

    Hong Kong Moments

    Hong Kong Moments

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    As pro-democracy activists and armed police battle in the streets of Hong Kong, ordinary citizens are choosing sides. Historically an outlier of both...

    Hong Kong Moments
  • 2020
    Be Water

    Be Water

    Be Water

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    The documentary “Be Water” records the clash in West Kowloon on 20th October, 2019. Police issued objection notice to the march protest...

    Be Water
  • 2022
    Blue Island

    Blue Island

    Blue Island

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    Although the Chinese government promised that Hong Kong would retain separate status until 2047, in recent years the Chinese state has consolidated...

    Blue Island
  • 2020
    Tugging Diary

    Tugging Diary

    Tugging Diary

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    Tugging Diary documents a footbridge over a year between August 2019 to January 2021. Due to social unrest and the uncertainty of various immediate...

    Tugging Diary
  • 2018
    Franco Mella

    Franco Mella

    Franco Mella

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    Franco Mella is a devoted figure whose life bridges Catholicism and Communism. He has journeyed through Asia, lived simply, and fought for social...

    Franco Mella
  • 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
  • 2020
    Comrades

    Comrades

    Comrades

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    Young people are protesting on the streets of Hong Kong in order to bring about change. Air soaked with tear gas, the dark uniforms and loud commands...

    Comrades
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2006
    Her Anti-WTO

    Her Anti-WTO

    Her Anti-WTO

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    The 2005 World Trade Conference in Hong Kong was the starting point of the "direct action" that emerged from the Hong Kong protest movement. It was...

    Her Anti-WTO
  • 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
    Fear(less) and Dear

    Fear(less) and Dear

    Fear(less) and Dear

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    Hongkongers have been experiencing extremely difficult times due to the political movement caused by anti-Extradition Bill since the summer of 2019...

    Fear(less) and Dear
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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