School of Modern Languages Film Club: The Entrepot

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Director: Jacky Cheung, 2022

Age rating: 12+ 

Three stand-alone shorts offer insight into contemporary Hong Kong. In Departure we meet a young Hongkong couple who are soul searching en route to the airport. In 06:00 AM an anxiety-ridden student enters a nightmare reality where she is forced to submit to compulsory government surveillance. In The Night Before, three twenty somethings from different walks of life, became fast friends as a result of their participation in the pro-democracy movement. 

A live Q&A with the director Jacky Cheung will be held remotely after the screening.

The Entrepot has won the Best Movie and Best New Director awards in the 2022 Liberty International Movie Festival held in Seoul, South Korea.

Jacky Cheung, a Hong Kong journalist, believes in the power of cinematography which would respond to the times and heal people's minds. He directed news documentaries “Save PolyU” and “Fiery and Gentle, We are Hongkongers” in the 2019 Anti-ELAB Movement. This is his first time to tell a Hong Kong story in a drama film.

This event is organised in partnership with Hongkongers in Britain, a civil-society organisation established in July 2020 to provide assistance, advice and support for the Hongkongers community coming to/arrived in the UK.

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The event will be delivered in the medium of English. You are welcome to ask questions in the medium of Welsh during the Q&A session. If you intend to do this, please contact mlang-events@cardiff.ac.uk by Friday 3 November to request simultaneous translation. Please note that 10% or more of those planning to attend will need to request this provision in order for it to be sourced and will be subject to resource availability.

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