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Hong Kong in 2025 is the setting for this hot-topic compendium of five short films that offer a speculative approach to the territory's possible political trajectory: a crime saga about a staged political assassination, a strange and melancholic sketch about two archivist lovers; a portrait of a marginalised Cantonese-speaking taxi driver; a provocative whodunnit concerning the identity of a protestor who self-immolates outside the British embassy, and an affecting Fahrenheit 451-style allegory featuring a shopkeeper whose son belongs to a young group of government informers. Ten Years opened on just one cinema screen in Hong Kong, but word-of-mouth quickly spread making it a local box office sensation and propelling it to the prestigious Hong Kong Film Awards, where it stunned many by picking up the Best Film prize. Together these stylistically diverse dystopian vignettes present urgent activist filmmaking that packs a cinematic punch and are essential viewing for socially engaged audiences and filmmakers alike. (London Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Dick Liu
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Protégé (2007)
New Police Story (2004)
In the Line of Duty 4 (1989)
Courtney Wu Zerisana
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Infernal Affairs (2002)
Ten Years (2015)
Infernal Affairs III (2003)
Sam Leung
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Ten Years (2015)
Trivisa (2016)
Cold War II (2016)
Peter Chan
Thailand
Best movies:
Project A II (1987)
The Twin Dragons (1992)
Ten Years (2015)
Jevons Au Man-Kit
Best movies:
Ten Years (2015)
Siu-Hin Ng
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Zero to Hero (2021)
Ten Years (2015)
Mad World (2016)
Cinda Hui
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Lost in Time (2003)
Police Story 2 (1988)
Hail the Judge (1994)
Catherine Chow
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Ten Years (2015)
Project Gutenberg (2018)
Brenda Chan Kwai-fan
Best movies:
New Police Story (2004)
A Simple Life (2011)
Triad Election (2006)
David Tat-chi Yu
Best movies:
Ten Years (2015)
Revenge: A Love Story (2010)
Trivisa (2016)
Paco Wong
Best movies:
Ten Years (2015)
Shock Wave (2017)
The Midnight After (2014)
Sam Pui-to Hui
Best movies:
Ten Years (2015)
As the Light Goes Out (2014)
Ben Yuen
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Night and Fog (2009)
Overheard (2009)
2046 (2004)
Hongwei Wang
China
Best movies:
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
The Pickpocket (1997)
Ten Years (2015)
Peter Bei-Dak Chan
Best movies:
Limbo (2021)
Ten Years (2015)
Raging Fire (2021)
Hung Leung
Best movies:
The Incredible Kung Fu Master (1979)
Mission of Condor (1990)
Royal Warriors (1986)
Wai-Lun Kwan
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Ten Years (2015)
Ying-Fat Cho
Best movies:
Ten Years (2015)