Film Information
Five thought-provoking shorts imagine what Hong Kong will be like ten years from now. In Extras, two genial low-level gangsters are hired to stage an attack, but they're mere sacrificial lambs in a political conspiracy. Rebels strive to preserve destroyed homes and objects as specimens in the mesmerizing Season of the End. In Dialect, a taxi driver struggles to adjust after Putonghua displaces Cantonese as Hong Kong's only official language. Following the death of a leading independence activist, an act of self-immolation outside the British consulate triggers questions and protests in the searing yet moving Self-Immolator. In Local Egg, a grocery shop owner worries about his son's youth guard activities and where to buy eggs after Hong Kong's last chicken farm closes down.
Reviews
"One of the most thought-provoking local films in years."
— Edmund Lee, South China Morning Post
"Ten Years is a smoke grenade lobbed into the febrile political and civic climate of the “special administration region.”
— Phil Hoad, The Guardian
"This is an important film reflecting the angst and fears of a society undergoing dramatic changes."
—Phil Guie, Film Forward
Awards
Winner of the Best Picture award at the 2016 Hong Kong Film Awards.
Won the Film of Merit award at the 2016 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.
Nominated for the Best Film award at the 2016 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.
