Dear colleagues
If you are based in Liverpool, I hope some of you/your students may be interested in a programme showcasing at the Picturehouse at FACT this weekend.
Yours sincerely & #peace
Hiu Man
Dr Hiu Man Chan | UK-China Film Collab
Founder & Director
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Subject: Odyssey 2023 will pop up in Liverpool between 2-4 June
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Odyssey 2023’s Liverpool GALA Screenings will arrive at the Picturehouse at FACT with 8 films between 2nd June and 4th June, focusing on the debate of ‘Global Sustainability’.
3 INTERNATIONAL PREMIERS & 4 UK PREMIERES, ONE SHOW ONLY AT THE PICTUREHOUSE AT FACT IN LIVERPOOL – don’t miss this rare opportunity to be the first audience in the country to watch the latest award-winning world cinema from Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR, the region of Taiwan as well as the United States. What do young filmmakers have to say about urban development, equality, and biodiversity?
Odyssey’s Lead Curator this year is Hong Kong born and raised <https://ukchinafilm.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33fa1e2bfd775a341fcd076ab&id=25fb27f6fc&e=af2744080b> Riley Wong.
All Odyssey 2023 official selections coming to Liverpool will make their debut appearance in the UK, leveling up, exclusively at the Picturehouse at FACT. Some of them are this year’s nominees for the festival’s Jury’s Special Prize.
Friday 2 June Programme
Odyssey 2023 Official Selection:
“Survival with You” (3 films)
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QUEENIE (CLOSING DYNASTY) (2023)
Winner of the 73rd Berlinale Crystal Bear
Strand: Equality
Dir. Lloyd Lee Choi
Duration: 17 min
Country: United States
Language: English | Mandarin Chinese
Genre: Short, Drama
Keywords: Tenacity, Adult world, Street life, vulnerability, resilience
Synopsis
Roaming the streets of New York, Queenie is dead set on one thing: getting money. Following the seven-year-old’s shrewd gaze as she navigates the adult world, the film speaks of things parents try to keep hidden, and of childlike tenacity.
Curator’s Take
This film exposes the struggles of an Asian family surviving in New York, from the perspective of a little girl. The innocence of Queenie intensifies the desperation and elegy of the diaspora Asian community in Western society.
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HAVE A NICE DAY (2018)
*UK PREMIERE*
By the director of
THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET
Strand: Equality
Dir. Kok Rui Lau
Duration: 25 min
Region: Hong Kong SAR
Language: Urdu | Cantonese
Genre: Short, Drama
Keywords: Cultural clash, identity crisis, socioeconomic class
Synopsis
A jobless Pakistani immigrant who wants to salvage his marriage by driving for riding apps, which is targeted by the Hong Kong police.
Curator’s Take
This film explores the lives of the Southeast-Asian-Hong-Kong-born community. Being ‘local’ still seems to be a faraway reality, even if they were born and bred in Hong Kong, fluent in Cantonese.
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MO (2020)
*INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE*
Strand: Equality
Dir. Ka Cheuk Fung
Duration: 30 min
Language: Urdu | English | Cantonese
Region: Hong Kong SAR
Genre: Short, Drama
Keywords: Voice, Struggle
Synopsis
Mo is a Pakistani torture claimant who has been waiting for his refugee status to be approved, but has not heard from the government yet, and as a result has to work in secret (the government prohibits illegal immigrants from working in Hong Kong). The story gives a voice to torture claimants from different parts of the world, whose dreams are as humble as having a secure home in Hong Kong.
Curator’s Take
This film is about the people who live in the borderline and their voices are not being heard. This story also reminds us that sometimes someone’s dream is simply to survive in a foreign land.
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