Inside the Red Brick Wall 理大圍城
Hong Kong / 2020 / Colour / 88 min
In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
Dir. Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers
2022 / 03 / 20 (Sun) - 2:00 PM
* Pre-recorded post-screening Q&A with the directors
Genesis Cinema, London
2022 / 03 / 25 (Fri) - 3:00 PM
Everyman Belsize Park, London
2022 / 03 / 25 (Fri) - 5:30 PM
Everyman Belsize Park, London
By mid-November 2019, Hong Kong freedom fighters had taken up the fort-like red-bricked Polytechnic University as their base. Strategically located next to the cross-harbour tunnel, control of the Polytechnic University allowed for paralysing the traffic at this important choke point. With the police blocking all exit routes, the Polytechnic University was placed under siege.
"Break the siege, save our kids!" Heeding the call for help, countless uprising sympathisers flocked to the streets to take part in a massive rescue operation. Despite the long night of heroic battle, the siege remained in force.
Trapped inside the red brick wall, many were trying increasingly desperate measures to escape while others went in hiding. As time went by, more and more chose to turn themselves in and surrender.
It is always in times of challenge and controversy, that commitment to stick together as one is tested.
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The team shall remain anonymous for safety reasons. Each covering a key moment common to many an uprising throughout history, the two features adopted similar narrative structures. When screened one after another, the intertextuality between them will inspire reflections on a grander scale beyond what individual works could achieve.
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Best Film — The 27th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
Best Editing for Feature - Length Documentary — International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
Award of the Students’ Jury and Special Mention — The 61st Krakow Film Festival - The International Documentary Competition
Opening film and Chinese Documentary Awards — Taiwan International Documentary Festival 2021
New Talent Award — DocsBarcelona International Documentary Film Festival 2021
The STEPHFF AWARDS — Bangkok International Documentary Awards 2021
The Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize — YAMAGATA International Documentary Film Festival 2021
The Best Film — Festival Film Villa Medicis 2021
Cracow Students Jury Award — Krakow Film Festival 2021
Best Documentary — YAMAGATA International Documentary Film Festival 2021
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Docaviv — The Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival
JeonJu intl. Film Festival 2021
Cinéma du réel — 43e Festival international du film documentaire
the 17th edition of Biografilm Festival
2021 True/False Film Festival
ZagrebDox — International Documentary Film Festival
Doc Fortnight 2021: MoMA’s Festival of International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media
Busan Peace Film Festival
Tenemos Que Ver — International Film and Human Rights Festival of Uruguay
JAYU Human Right Film Festival HRFF+
Singapore International Film Festival SGIFF
Dharamshala International Film Festival DIFF 2021
WATCH DOCS IFF 2021
Budapest IDFF 2022
ZA Koenji Documentary Festival 2022
