Inside the Red Brick Wall (2020)

Original title

理大圍城

Directed by

Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers

Genre

documentary film, historical film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary shows the 2019 standoff between police and protesters at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. It follows the events from inside the campus using footage from both sides.

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What happens

"Inside the Red Brick Wall" (Chinese: 理大圍城) is an 88-minute Hong Kong documentary that chronicles the large-scale clashes between police and protesters at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hung Hom campus in November 2019 during the anti-extradition bill movement. The documentary won the "Best Editing Award" at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and the "Best Film Award" from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society. It was also selected as the opening film for the 12th Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF) and won the Chinese Documentary Award, along with "Taking back the Legislature". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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