M18 / Cantonese / / 88 min
On 17 November 2019, the police laid siege to protestors at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in a blockade lasting nearly two weeks. Beleaguered students fought teargas with makeshift whiteboard shields, hoping to escape and return home to safety. With the media barred from on-site access, an anonymous collective films from within the campus, recording the teenage protesters` hopes and distress. The camera captures their acts of lethal faith- as described by one student - seen as their only defence against the police`s lethal weapons. Named best film at the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards, this gut-wrenching documentary attests to the power of democratic filmmaking as a mode of unbearable, yet necessary, witness.
| Director: Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers |
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| Release Date: 29, November 2021 |