Black Bauhinia 香港本色
United Kingdom / 2020 / Colour / 77min
In Cantonese, English and German with Chinese and English subtitles
Dir. Dr Malte Philipp Kaeding
2022 / 03 / 23 (Wed) - 7:30 PM
* In-person post-screening Q&A with director
King's College London
Black Bauhinia is the first feature-length documentary film on Hong Kong localism and the independence movement, which fundamentally transformed Hong Kong’s domestic and international relations. The debut film by director and co-producer Dr Malte Kaeding offers a balanced and critical assessment of a subject so complex and sensitive that local filmmakers have shied away from it. Based on Malte’s decade-long research on localism, he follows two young localist leaders’ emotional journey from electoral successes into prison and exile. The collaborative style of filmmaking allows for intimate reflections on the costs of resistance, self-sacrifices, and the meaning of home. Throughout Black Bauhinia’s three-year production period, localism inspired the 2019 Hong Kong protests, while the ensuing government crackdown rendered the documentary into an outlawed element of resistance. Black Bauhinia captures the ideas of a young generation that dared to challenge an authoritarian China.
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a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Politics at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. He is the co-founder of the Hong Kong Studies Association. Malte researches emotions and international relations. Malte has been a cinephile since his teenage days. He studied Comparative Literature with the late Esther M.K. Cheung and Film Studies with Mette Hjort at the University of Hong Kong and completed the BFI Creative Film Skills Evening Class Programme on documentary film making. Malte believes strongly in a collaborative filmmaking process and works closely with the local crew and protagonists at all stages of the production.
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Spotlight Gold Award — Spotlight Documentary Film Awards
Best Feature Film and Best Documentary Film — Golden Harvest Film Festival
Best Cinematography — Liberty International Movie Festival
Best First Time Director - Jury Diamond Award — Europe Film Festival – September/October 2021
Best Documentary Feature Film — Helsinki Education Film Festival International
Best Feature Film — Social and Economic Justice Film Festival
Merit — The Impact DOCS Awards!
Excellence - Revolution and Reform — Docs Without Borders Film Festival Spring 2021
Best First Time Director — Berlin Indie Film Festival – March 2021
Best First-time Documentary Film — Luleå International Film Festival – March 2021
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Spotlight Documentary Film Awards 2022
Golden Harvest Film Festival 2021
UK Monthly Film Festival (Norwich) Feb/March 2021
Docs Without Borders Film Festival Spring 2021
The Impact DOCS Awards! 2021
the Annual Colorado International Activism Film Festival 2021
International Film Festival Cologne 2021
24th Conference “Power of Truth: China, Tech, Art & Resistance” 2021
Social and Economic Justice Film Festival 2021
Europe Film Festival U.K. 2021
Helsinki Education Film Festival International 2021
Kurdistan International Independent Film Festival 2021
We The Peoples Film Festival 2021
Liberty International Movie Festival 2021
Hong Kong Independent Film Festival 2020
Film Expo - Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2020
Seoul Human Rights Film Festival 2020
