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When a City Rises

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The protests in Hong Kong portrayed from the inside in a courageous film about an entire generation's last chance for a democratic future. WHEN A CITY RISES follows a 21-year-old student, a teenage couple and a young father of two in their impossible fight for democracy. Relationships break and form amidst tear gas and rubber bullets and across the border China's People Liberation Army awaits. The work filmed by a collective of seven Hong Kong filmmakers invites the audience to live the resistance movement from within and tells a story of hope, love, chaos and solidarity among strangers.

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Wendy Ide Screen International A film which is not only one of the most complete accounts of the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests to date, it's also, at times, an unbearably tense picture which unfolds with urgency of a thriller. Sep 16, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis The protests in Hong Kong portrayed from the inside in a courageous film about an entire generation's last chance for a democratic future. WHEN A CITY RISES follows a 21-year-old student, a teenage couple and a young father of two in their impossible fight for democracy. Relationships break and form amidst tear gas and rubber bullets and across the border China's People Liberation Army awaits. The work filmed by a collective of seven Hong Kong filmmakers invites the audience to live the resistance movement from within and tells a story of hope, love, chaos and solidarity among strangers.
Director
Cathy Chu, Iris Kwong, Ip Kar Man, Huang Yuk-kwok, Evie Cheung, Han Yan Yuen, Jenn Lee
Producer
Sinead Kirwan, Han Yan Yuen
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
Chinese