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Rather be Ashes Than Dust
16. November 2024, 15:00
FSK Kino (Segitzdamm 2, 10969 Berlin)
What are the challenges journalists face when covering increasingly challenging civil disobedience? Witnessing acts of government crackdown and injustice, should they remain objective? What are their choices when the government turns against them? "Rather be Ashes than Dust" is a first person documentary chronicling a journalist-filmmaker’s struggle with his conscience while witnessing intense police brutality against protesters during the 2019 movement in Hong Kong. In 2020, a year into the protest movement, China imposed the National Security Law on Hong Kong, taking away its judicial independence and the many freedoms promised by the Joint Declaration, including the freedom of expression. Many journalists had to decide: do I shut up, go to prison, or leave? Using the Hong Kong protest movement in 2019 as a backdrop, this film will follow a video journalist’s four-years journey to find the answers to these questions.Director: Alan Lau Countries: Canada, Hong Kong, United Kingdom Year: 2023 Duration: 114 minutes Languages: Cantonese & English, with English subtitles Distributor: Ratherbeashesthandust Limited
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She's in Jail
09. June 2024, 14:00
Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte (Greifswalder Str. 4, 10405 Berlin)
“I think my position is to do what I can. I don’t want to give people the impression that everything ends with imprisonment. So I am very conscious about continuing to speak out, continue to maintain the so-called visibility, and not to disappear because I am in prison. Especially in our modern world, it’s actually not that easy to make a person disappear." - Chow Hang Tung 2024 marks the fifth anniversary of the 2019 Hong Kong protests and the tenth anniversary of the Umbrella Movement. The screening of "She's in Jail," a documentary that showcases the remarkable courage of Chow Hang Tung. As a Hong Kong barrister and democratic activist, Chow is currently imprisoned under the National Security Law. Despite her incarceration, Chow's spirit has been recognized globally, earning her five international human rights awards in 2023, including the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) Human Rights Award. Through in-depth interviews and personal accounts from friends and comrades, it narrates her contributions to the democratic movements, and reflects the current political and human rights situation in Hong Kong. Publication: Asian Commons Duration: 102 mins Distributor: The 29 Principles, a UK-based organisation supporting lawyers facing human rights oppression. The 29 Principles is committed to providing support to lawyers to help them fulfil the roles described in the Basic Principles, in particular on promoting the rule of law.
35th of May
07. June 2023, 19:00
Filmrauschpalast at Kulturfabrik Moabit (Lehrter Str. 35, 10557 Berlin)
Another year has just passed. Siu Lum and Ah Dai are afflicted with the usual ailments of old age. They await death—a natural occurrence that is a part of life. But 30 years ago, their son Chit met an unnatural death. Even today, many unanswered questions still surround the incident. The two set an ambitious goal: On 35th May, they’ll hold a proper gravesite ritual for their son. When “4th June” (Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989) became the date that must not be named and cannot be searched online in China, 35th May seems to be the only way out. On the 30th anniversary of the “June Fourth Incident”, which is also the fateful year of 2019 Hong Kong protests. For 30 years, the Victoria Park in Hong Kong was packed with thousands of people for the June Fourth vigils. It was both a traumatic and enlightening experience for many Hongkongers to engage with social movements. As a highly acclaimed and award-winning stage performance, Germany Stands with Hong Kong is honored to bring its recording to the Berlin public in June 2023, in the hope of raising the awareness of the ongoing brutal and totalitarian suppression by the Beijing government on those who fight for freedom. Production team of “35th of May” Playwright: Candance Chong Director: Lee Chun Chau Producer: Lit Ming Wai, Wong Yee Man A production of Stage 64 (Hong Kong).
Decameron
16. Dec 2022
Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte (Greifswalder Str. 4, 10405 Berlin)
"How can we live a normal life again?" The young people can't leave the trauma of the 2019 social movement and still protest on the streets, but the protest is no longer the same. A family try to live as usual under the epidemic, but the children can't play in the street, they only able staying at home watching the death numbers on the news. The lovers both lost their jobs and were busy putting on masks for the epidemic. Their lives have become surviving. Their daily lives are so absurd. We always thought that Chan Tong-kai killed his girlfriend in Taiwan was the cause of the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement. Chan Tong-kai maybe be is the reason, or perhaps We know that he is not the cause.
"Can we go back to the past? Can we still live a normal life?" we asked the most in 2020. With the trauma of fighting and entering the crazy 2020, what kind of daily life will we have? Does the shadow of death in the entire society come from the regime or the epidemic? "Decameron" is a film that combines fiction, documentary and history, with fictional characters, news, and old newspaper clippings, backtracking the Hong Kong history to document the present in 2020.
Love in the Time of Revolution
12. - 13. Dec 2022
Moviemento (Kottbusser Damm 22, 10967 Berlin)
Echoing voices from the streets of Hong Kong, "Love in the Time of Revolution" documents the passion, spirit and sacrifice of ordinary Hong Kongers during a time of political and social upheaval.
In 2019, Hong Kong government plans to introduce a law permitting the extradition of criminal suspects to Mainland China sparked a mass protest movement unprecedented in scale. The people of Hong Kong marched — 1 million strong, then 2 million — to save what they saw as the city’s eroding freedoms and rule of law. When their demands went unheeded, the protests intensified, and the streets of Hong Kong became soaked in tear gas and blood as valiant frontline protesters clashed with riot police. Behind the frontliners stood a peaceful silent majority, committed to a hard-won solidarity as they attempt to save the city that they love.
"Love in the Time of Revolution" takes viewers onto the streets of Hong Kong, to the very front lines of the protests, and follows the stories of just some of the protesters and their fellow Hong Kong citizens. It tells their extraordinary stories: the stories of ordinary people at a pivotal moment in their city’s history, as they experience hope and desperation, love and heartbreak, fighting for their home.
Revolution of Our Times
09. - 10. Apr 2022
Moviemento (Kottbusser Damm 22, 10967 Berlin)
In 2019, the national “extradition bill” threatened Hong Kong’s autonomy by turning legal jurisdiction over to mainland China. As a response, mass protests emerged in the city and it shortly evolved into a movement aimed to preserve Hong Kong’s state of relative independence. Having its debut in the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in France, the documentary “Revolution of Our Times” tells the story of the Hong Kong Democracy Movement to a world that had seemingly forgotten them and puts the viewer in the midst of the political battlefield during the time of the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests. The film also won the Best Documentary Feature at the Golden Horse Film Awards in Taiwan.
Trailer: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi517325593/?playlistId=tt15049118
Raise the Umbrella
12. Sep 2020
Nikolaikirchhof 3, 04109 Leipzig
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