Through Her Eyes
The programme, presented during Women’s History Month, features two documentaries and an animation, each telling a story from a female perspective. Made by female creators, these shorts explore personal stories of coming-of-age and experiences in reconciling with the past.
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USA & Hong Kong / 2020 / Colour / 15 mins / In Cantonese and English with Engish subtitles / Dir. Natalie A. Chao 趙芷妮
Filmed decades apart on the same miniDV camcorder, TO KNOW HER is a poetic exploration of the filmmaker’s relationship with her mother, who passed away when she was 14 years old to clinical depression.
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Hong Kong / 2021 / Colour / 13 mins / No dialogue / Dir. Step Cheung 張小踏
It portrays the author’s fear of change. It feels like the soul is broken into many pieces endlessly, but as long as we can survive, depths of night pass eventually.
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Hong Kong / 2014 / Colour / 32 mins / In Cantonese and Teochew dialect with Chinese and English subtitles / Dir. Chan Hau-chun 陳巧真
The director spent her childhood living apart from her family and knew very little about its history. This changed when she graduated from college and decided to face her parents with her camera in a search for answers to questions about her past.