Blue Island
Really epitomizes the power of cinema in preserving the truth, which is no small feat, and in the current realty of Hong Kong, a valiant victory.
Blue Island
With courage and sensitivity, Blue Island confronts the large-scale 2019 protests in Hong Kong. A new wave of young people took back the streets, as one generation after another has done throughout Hong Kong’s history. Bullets fly across the alleys. Fires ignite. White tear gas and blue water cannons encroach on public spaces. The past, the present and the future converge within a relentlessly documenting lens.
Genre
Documentary,
Activism,
Politics & World Affairs,
Fascism,
Democracy
Runtime
98
Language
Mandarin,
Cantonese,
English
Director
Chan Tze Woon
FEATURED REVIEW
Richard Kuipers, Variety
The question of what it means to be a Hong Konger is examined in Chan Tze-woo’s innovative and affecting hybrid documentary “Blue Island.” Artfully editing footage of the 2019-2020 protests with dramatic recreations of events that have shaped the British colony turned Chinese special administrative ...
Played at
Royal 8.19.22 - 8.25.22
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