In Cantonese and Vietnamese with Chinese and English subtitles
Genre
Documentary
Shooting Format
HD
Synopsis
Two years ago, the director made a film about an elderly scavenger in Sham Shui Po. Last year, by chance, the director was back to the area once again to film the homeless living under the flyover. This time, as she stayed with her interview target, a middle aged man, through his last days, she reflected on the complicated yet delicate relationship between director and subject.
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Director Cinematographer Editor
Cheng Oi-yue
Cheng Oi-yue, Yung Pui-teoong
Cheng Oi-yue, Lee Wai-shing
2014
France
Short Film Market, 37th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival & Market
Hong Kong
Special Mention, Hong Kong Documentary Award, Chinese Documentary Festival 2014
Cheng Oi-yue Jo graduated from the University of
Hong Kong in social work. She is a documentary filmmaker and organised the
“Under the Bridge” documentary series in 2013. Her works include Goodbye, Gran
Lai and A Will to Restore.
Filmography 2013 The Will to Restore
Remarks shared after Festival
“A short film
festival is a place where the collision of ideas between different culture is
made possible within a very compact time frame. The sheer intensity of such
'cultural shock' with the opportunity to view over a hundred short films
produced in countries all over the world on different topics and formats could
stimulate and refresh the minds of any passionate filmmaker. It is all the more
rewarding to meet other directors behind the showcased films to exchange ideas.. [More]
“A short film
festival is a place where the collision of ideas between different culture is
made possible within a very compact time frame. The sheer intensity of such
'cultural shock' with the opportunity to view over a hundred short films
produced in countries all over the world on different topics and formats could
stimulate and refresh the minds of any passionate filmmaker. It is all the more
rewarding to meet other directors behind the showcased films to exchange ideas.
I was especially impressed by the strong emphasis on the experimental genre by
the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, which includes experimental fiction,
documentary, and animation films that gave me new thoughts about the
possibilities in documentary film-making. Other categories according to subject
matter, such as Father and Daughter (2000), directed
by Dudok de Wit, also gave fresh ideas on to the numerous
ways that one can go about making films on a single topic. It has been a highly
inspiring and fulfilling experience; surely it provides good nourishment that a
creative mind requires for on-going art making.”
— Shared by Cheng Oi-yue, director of Via
Dolorosa after attending
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival & Market 2015 in France, under the sponsorship of NAE.
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