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KANARIS THEATRE, FLOOR 2
Join us for a screening of the film Flowing Stories, as part of the Waving Kites: Hong Kong Diaspora Cinema UK tour, sharing stories of the Hong Kong diaspora experience across different moments and places. This includes an online Q&A with director Jessey Tsang.
Flowing Stories 河上變村 + Q&A with director Jessey Tsang 曾翠珊 (online)
Dir. Jessey TSANG Tsui Shan 曾翠珊, 2014, 97m, Documentary
'Ho Chung Tetralogy' includes the interactive web piece All About My Ho Chung, the short film The Life and Times of Ho Chung Village, the feature film Big Blue Lake, and the director’s first feature-length documentary Flowing Stories. Through depicting the recurrent reunions and partings of the villagers and the intimate details of their lives, the film examines issues about urban and rural development. Filmed on locations in Hong Kong and in various cities in France and UK, Flowing Stories is an ode to village life and a journey in search of Hong Kongers’ collective roots. Tsang’s camera records the beautiful scenery and time-honored customs of the local village, as well as a once-a-decade village festival, which serves as a continuation of a tradition passed down through generations and a testament of family bonding. Today, Hong Kong citizens are confused about the future, the director hopes to review the village’s development in order to search for the meaning of home and diaspora through this meaningful local documentary.
Waving Kites: Hong Kong Diaspora Cinema brings together three feature-length documentaries and a selection of short films, tracing a range of perspectives, from hope to disillusionment, separation and exploration, the struggle to settle, and reflections shaped by global capitalism and xenophobia.
These films attend not only to those who have left but also to those who remain; to building relationships in places that may feel unwelcoming; and to how migration can open paths to self-understanding. Together, they span diasporic experiences from the 1980s to more recent waves of emigration, moving between Hong Kong, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
For more information, please visit hongkongindiefilm.wordpress.com.
Waving Kites is organised by Newcastle University and supported by BFI's National Lottery Screen Heritage Fund.