BLUE ISLAND

BLUE ISLAND

Country/ies
Hong Kong
Production
Tsz Ki (Catherine) Chan
Editor
Length
97
Original Language
Original language
Status
Completed
Completed in
2022
Eurodoc Participant
Eurodoc Producer
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Year participation
2020
Distribution

The film documents three real-life characters who engaged in rebellions when they were young. Through reconstructing these events, the film dramatizes their scarred memories and experiences by using four young people who participated in the 2019 Anti-extradition Law Amendment Movement in Hong Kong. These real protagonists are separated by time and history, yet their lives parallel and overlap, because they have similarly defiant backgrounds and find themselves in similarly chaotic predicaments.

Images flow between documentary and drama, blending archival materials, interviews and behind-the-scenes footage, weaving an expansive tapestry that encompasses these tumultuous eras…

How do the young people of this city envision their future today? What do they think about this seemingly unwinnable revolution?

Festivals & Awards
2022 New Directors New Films (USA)
2022 Hot Docs (Canada) - Best International Feature Documentary Award (World Premiere)
2021 Visions du Réel (Switzerland) – VdR Work in Progress (Lightdox Award)
2020 Sunny Side of the Doc Pitch (France) - Ptiching selection
Production & financial support