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Ten Years    [trailer]

Five short films set in Hong Kong in the year 2025.

Meant to be a look into the not so distant future when it was released five years ago. But by now many segments are much closer to being documentaries.

Extras: It doesn't get more timely than that. Side note, the current US variation is inventing "antifa" violence without evidence.

Season of the End: The most difficult to interpret. Maybe meant to imply that there is no hope left.

Dialect: Language as part of your identity. Becoming foreign in your own land.

Self-immolator: Again very timely. And devastating at the end.

Hong Kong in 2025 is the setting for this hot-topic compendium of five short films that offer a speculative approach to the territory’s possible political trajectory. (more…)

Trivisa    [trailer]

Crime thriller set during the Hongkong handover to China in 1997. It consists of three losely connected episodes (made by different directors) about three criminals, all in some way trying to adjust to the upcoming handover and the new players who want their share, mostly in the form of corrupt officials.