Hong Kong, from angst to hope to agony – 30 years of filmmaking by Evans Chan

The filmmaking career of Evans Chan has come full circle. In 1992 his first film, To Liv(e) – about the angst of Hong Kong people uncertain of their future after the June 4, 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy students in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square – had its international premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.In January this year, Chan’s latest film, We Have Boots – which documents the political upheaval in Hong Kong from 2014 to 2019 – also had its world premiere at the Dutch film…

from South China Morning Post https://ift.tt/38edMYt