Citizen Hong Kong (1999)

Original title

風雨故園

Directed by

Ruby Yang

Genre

documentary film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Five ordinary people in Hong Kong film their daily lives in the late 1990s. Their footage is edited together to show how residents felt about the change of government.

observationalintimatecontemplativepersonalreflectivegroundedeveryday

What happens

《風雨故園》（英語：Citizen Hong Kong）是香港居美導演楊紫燁首部紀錄片，由五名背景各異的平凡人拍攝生活點滴，剪輯成90分鐘的影片，折射香港人處於政權交替之際的矛盾心情。影片在全美247間公共電視台播放，先後參加歐美多項影展，並被美國多所大學和香港中文大學定為教科書和亞裔研究教材。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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