The screening on 19 August will be introduced by James Mudge, the Festival Director of Focus Hong Kong. Presented in the restored version.
Made in Hong Kong is the breakthrough work of Hong Kong auteur Fruit Chan and the first instalment of his celebrated '1997 Trilogy,' followed by The Longest Summer (1998) and Little Cheung (1999). Casting largely non-professional performers, the film marked the screen debut of Sam Lee, who would go on to become one of Hong Kong cinema’s most distinctive and prolific actors. Shot on a shoestring budget using leftover film, it nevertheless is a powerful and stylish portrait of youthful despair and urban alienation in Handover-era Hong Kong and attained classic status ever since.
Set in a working-class housing estate, the film follows Autumn Moon, a teenage triad errand boy drifting through a cycle of petty crime and violence. After a schoolgirl’s suicide leaves behind two undelivered letters, Moon and his friends embark on a journey that intersects with the life of Ping, a young woman suffering from a terminal illness. As friendship, love, and loss converge, Moon is forced to confront the limits of his future in a world that offers few opportunities and little hope of escape.
