Movies and TvShows featuring "hong-kong-protests" theme.
Cheung Chau, once a fishing village in Hong Kong, has transformed into a tourist spot. Ri-Tai, a food stall run by A-Cheung, reflects local life, absurdities, and societal realities. A-Cheung spends his days playing games with customers like Plumpy, forming bonds that transcend generations. However, the onset of COVID-19 disrupts this sense of community, leaving the island deserted and questioning whether Ri-Tai's simple way of life will vanish.
Joshua Wong, a teenage activist, leads a series of protests and demonstrations in Hong Kong, advocating for political reform and democracy. The film showcases his journey and the challenges he faces in his fight against political oppression.
Do Not Split (2020) is a documentary that provides an inside look into the Hong Kong protests, showcasing the nonviolent resistance and the citizens' defiance against authority. It explores the use of tactics like Molotov cocktails, the extreme police harassment and excessive force faced by protesters, and their commitment to civil disobedience in the face of police brutality and violence.
In 2017, twenty years after the British handed over Hong Kong to China in 1997, young people, more politicized than any previous generation and proud of their land, do not feel Chinese and actively fight against the oligarchs who want to subdue them to China's authoritarian power.
A vivid portrait of a generation of Hong Kongers committed to creating a new more democratic Hong Kong. Schoolboy Joshua Wong dedicates himself to stopping the introduction of National Education. Whilst former classmate Ma Jai fights against political oppression on the streets and in the courts. Catapulting the viewer on to the streets of Hong Kong and into the heart of the action. The viewer is confronted with Hong Kong's oppressive heat, stifling humidity and air thick with dissent. Filmed over 18 months this is a kaleidoscopic, visceral experience of their epic struggle.
Memories of his four-year journey focused on the Hong Kong protests. Narrated in the first person, is rich with reflections and contemplations, most intertwined with feelings of guilt.
Revolution of Our Times is a documentary film that delves into the political and social upheaval in Hong Kong, focusing on the protests and street riots that emerged as a response to increasing control from Communist China. Through interviews and footage, the film captures the spirit of the movement and highlights the struggles faced by the people of Hong Kong.
Freedom For The Wolf is a thought-provoking documentary that delves into the global rise of illiberal democracy and the decline of freedom. It examines the cases of Tunisia, Hong Kong protests, Japan, India, and explores the political activism and challenges faced in these regions.
Inside the Red Brick Wall is a documentary that captures the intensity and determination of the Hong Kong protests in 2019. Through the eyes of the protesters, it provides an intimate look at their struggles for democracy and human rights within the city.
Although the Chinese government promised that Hong Kong would retain separate status until 2047, in recent years the Chinese state has consolidated its power over the metropolis. Large-scale protests by the populace have been brutally suppressed. This mix of documentary, fiction, and visions of the future reveals the current state of desolate depression among the people of Hong Kong. “A desperate attempt to capture the final moments of a sinking island”, as maker Chan Tze-woon himself puts it.
A short documentary about the protests in Hong Kong in 2019 and 2020.
Two young Hong Kong activists reflect on their resistance against China, are forced to decide between long-term imprisonment and refugee camps for a life in exile, while their movement inspires mass protests in the city they love.
In the aftermath of 2014's Umbrella Revolution, five Hong Kong activists are confronted with the question of what it means to be Hong Kongers.
Taking Back the Legislature is a documentary that explores the events and impact of the Hong Kong protests in 2020. Through interviews and footage, it provides an in-depth look at the movement and the people behind it.
As pro-democracy activists and armed police battle in the streets of Hong Kong, ordinary citizens are choosing sides. Historically an outlier of both western and Chinese power, Hong Kong wields its own economic force, affording the city and its people a spirit of independence that has now erupted into clouds of tear gas. Filmmaker Bing Zhou uses a nimble camera to follow a group of protagonists—two opposing political candidates, a tea shop owner, a cab driver, a police officer, a paramedic—on two separate days of conflict. On September 21, 2019, protestors from three districts join forces, resulting in unprecedented violence. Just 10 days later on October 1, the National Day of the People’s Republic of China, previously undecided onlookers show their stripes. Thoughts transform into action in this demonstration of how mercurial and personal Hong Kong’s politics have become.
Political engagement spawned the wildest of wonderlands for Hong Kong’s creativity – but as a new law annihilates freedom of expression overnight, underground artists and creatives find themselves targets, and their works disappeared. Together we race to preserve the creative uprising amid China’s crackdown.
Brian, Jenny, Peter, and Eddie find their lives forever changed as they become part of the Hong Kong protest movement, which started as a response to a controversial extradition bill but has now grown into a fight for freedoms and democracy. The protests, fueled by anger over police brutality, pose the biggest challenge to Beijing since Hong Kong's return to China in 1997. If We Burn follows their stories as they navigate the uncertain future of their city.
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 of concerns about growing restrictions on journalists working in the city. Three Hong Kong media outlets popular with the opposition have folded in just six months, following the introduction of a controversial national security law in Hong Kong on June 30, 2020, raising fears about the future of press freedom in the city. The 29-year-old is starting a new life in Britain’s northern city of Manchester and plans to eventually resume his journalism career in Europe.
This Anti-ELAB (Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill) Movement documentary short takes us back to the airport occupation on 12 August 2019. Although this new form of protest soon turned into a crisis, it became an important lesson for the protesters. Compared to the tension inside the airport terminal, the long walk home at sunset on the Lantau highway, which connects the Hong Kong International Airport to the residential areas, felt like a reminiscence of a school field trip.
An anonymous, authentic video secretly filmed from taxi windows captures fragments of violence right in the middle of clashes between police and protesting Hong Kong residents. In addition to the contact sound of fights, screams, singing, chants of the slogan “Liberate Hong Kong! Revolution of our times!”, and the howls of those who've been beaten, we also hear the conflicting comments of taxi drivers from both sides of the border - Hong Kong and the neighboring mainland Shenzhen.