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放映 / SCREENINGS
We regularly organize screenings at our Studio and other venues, both showing our own and others' films made by or on youth. The screenings are friendly events allowing people to mingle, discuss, have a drink and get to know people's stories from different regions of the world.
我們定期在工作室和各種場地舉辦電影展映,當中包括我們拍攝的影片以及其他導演拍攝關於青年的影片。我們的放映會輕鬆而開放,觀眾可以在放映后的酒會交流討論,一起分享來自世界各地不同的故事。
12.12.2016 FILM SCREENING:
Katzenball 愛她愛她
The past 70 years in Switzerland as told from the perspective of a hidden minority: the history – and personal accounts – of lesbians, their relationships and international networks, their search for an identity and for meeting places. A narrative of their political struggle, masquerades and subculture in this country. Supplemented by well-known footage from films and television, the film portrays five women from different generations, giving us an insight into their lives and allowing us to see life “on the other side” in a different light.
This film screening is part of 1905 Hong Kong Human Rights Film Festival and sponsored by the Consulate General of Switzerland in Hong Kong.
12.12.2016 FILM SCREENING:
Our School 我們的學校
Our School follows three Roma (commonly known as "Gypsy") children in a rural Transylvanian village who are among the pioneer participants in an initiative to integrate the ethnically segregated Romanian schools. When their school is desegregated, Alin, Benjamin, and Dana set out for the city school, optimistic for education and new friendships, even as funds earmarked for integration are questionably used to build a "Roma-only" school in their village. Their innocent optimism quickly sours when the children are met with low expectations and further isolation.
Shot over four years, the filmmakers' tender portrait of rural village life and its rhythms fosters an intimacy in the children's profound reality and admiration for their indomitable spirit, punctuated by shocking instances of prejudice and ignorance. Their story touches on issues ranging from institutionalized racism, public education, and the intractability of poverty, culminating in an outrageous finale that cements the Roma children's struggle in the annals of egregious human rights violations. “Our School” is an absorbing, infuriating, and ultimately bittersweet story of tradition and progress.
This film screening is part of 1905 Hong Kong Human Rights Film Festival and sponsored by the Consulate General of Switzerland in Hong Kong.
10.12.2016 FILM SCREENING:
Lotus 小荷
Synopsis: A young, freethinking teacher named Lotus seems a rebel in the eyes of her rigid colleagues. After having been expulsed by the school for her relationship with a married man, she decided to leave the small town for Beijing. But very soon she finds out that what she has to tell in the newspaper is a lie. In trouble again, she has to work as a waitress in a bar and sleep in a tiny underground room. A rich man falls in love with her but she doesn’t love him back. Before she makes her decision to accept his love, a policeman who believes she’s a prostitute tries to rape her. Dreams broken, she faces two choices: continue suffering, or give up what she was looking for to obtain a life with material comforts.
This film screening is part of 1905 Hong Kong Human Rights Film Festival and sponsored by the Consulate General of Switzerland in Hong Kong.
01.12.2016 FILM SCREENING:
PICCOLA PATRIA (SMALL HOMELAND)
電影展映:微國
Synopsis: in the midst of Italy's secessionist Northeast (where separatist and localist movements thrive on the cultural and economic contradictions of present-day Italy), the troubled adolescence of two girls leads to tragedy.
The film screening is organized in cooperation with The Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
29.11.2016 MASTERCLASS :
Applying the Ethnographic Method to Cinema
影像大師班- 民族誌研究法在電影中的應用
Ethnography, which has been widely used in the humanities as a research method, plays a crucial role in filmmaking too. Director Alessandro Rossetto, experienced professor of documentary , will share his perspective on documentary and fiction filmmaking along with methodological advices. During the seminar he will present excerpts from his latest and most known work, Piccola Patria.
The masterclass is organized in cooperation with The Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Anthropological Society.
24.10.2016 DOCUMENTARY SCREENING:
310 TUNG CHAU STREET
通州街叄佰壹拾號
Directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Jo Cheng, this 28' film was shot in Sham Shui Po in 2016.
Director's Statement: One night in 310 Tung Chau Street, a subdivided flat in an old building buried in the poorest district of Hong Kong, two novice filmmakers came to witness a curious incidence of Vietnamese refugees in conflict and investigated by the police. This is an experimental short that explores the nature of ‘reality’ in documentary filmmaking, where the filmmakers question their own philosophy and practice in documentary.
2014 WU WEN-GUANG'S HONG KONG FOLK MEMORY PROJECT
DOCUMENTARY WORKSHOP AND SCREENING
吳文光: 香港民間記憶計畫: 紀錄片創作工作坊
Curated by Ying Liang, this project is originated from “Folk Memory Project” established by Cao Chang Di Workstation in 2010, which aims to create folk memory archives.
The goal of “Hong Kong Folk Memory Project” is to go back to the ordinary memory.
The Documentary Workshop is led by the director Wu Wen-guang.
The workshop tries to integrate documentary filmmaking and social practice.
The teaching does not focus on theories. Instead, students learn to make their own documentary films through understanding the social reality.
Through the folk memory projects, students explore their creative motivation and direction by going back to the ordinary memory.
CHINESE DREAMS
2013 edition
中国梦电影放映
Chinese Dreams – 2013 is a free series of chinese documentary films screenings organized by ThY/LAB in cooperation with EU China Audiovisual Network and European Institute for Asian Studies.
Screenings take place at our Place du Luxembourg studio on monday evenings at 19.00 in spring 2013.
Calendar:
25.03.13
SELF-PORTRAIT WITH THREE WOMEN
by Zhang Mengqi
01.04.13
PEOPLE’S ARTIST JIA JINSHU
by Wu HaoHao
MR. TANG
by Zhang Xinwei
08.04.13
MY MOTHER’S RHAPSODY
by Qiu JiongJiong
15.04.13
I BEAT THE TIGER WHEN I WAS YOUNG
by Xue Jianqiang
22.04.13
THE PASSENGERS
by Dong Hua
29.04.13
SATIATED VILLAGE
by Zou Xueping
06.05.13
LUO VILLAGE: REN DINQI AND ME
by Luo Bing
13.05.13
SELF-PORTRAIT: DANCING AT 47 KM
by Zhang Menqi
MY GRANDPA'S WINTER
by Jia Nannan
20.05.13
SELF-PORTRAIT: AT 47 KM
by Zhang Menqi
27.05.13
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HO CHUNG VILLAGE
by Tsang Tsui Shan
THIS PAIR
by Wong Yee Mei
THE CHAINED KNOTS
by Siu Yin Yu
03.06.13
SECONDARY SCHOOL
by Tammy Cheung
10.06.13
LIFE, BEYOND LIFE
by Wong Yan Chun
LIFE MUST GO ON
by Sham Ka Ki
LADIES’ MARKET INSIDE STUFF
by Chung Ling Yam
REPORT
by Lung Yin Ping, Ho Pui Yi, Chan Wing Yiu, Chu Siu Kei
17.06.13
SAM HUI YAT
by Ho Chung Ken
WE ARE ALIVE
by Yan Ching
CHINESE DREAMS
2012 edition
中国梦电影放映
Chinese Dreams – 2012 is a free series of chinese documentary films screenings organized by ThY/LAB in the occasion of the 2012 EU-China Year of Intercultural Dialogue.
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