Ann Hui, Golden Lion of Honor at the Venice Film Festival 2020, in "A word, a gesture, a silence"

Hong Kong-based Ann Hui, the first female director honored with a Golden Lion for her film career.

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Ann Hui, Golden Lion of Honor, explains her relationship with the 7th art in “A word, a gesture, a silence”.

She also tells us how she became Hong Kongese and tells us about her new film, "Love After Love", selected at the 77th Venice Film Festival.

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[Video] Ann Hui, Golden Lion of Honor at the Venice Film Festival 2020, in "A word, a gesture, a silence"

This great figure of the Hong Kong New Wave is the first female director honored with a Golden Lion for her film career.

And with Ann Hui, born in 1947, the Venice Film Festival, the oldest international film festival, also honors for the first time a filmmaker born in China with this very prestigious distinction.

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is based on a short story by Eileen Chang and unfolds in upper-class social circles in 1940s Hong Kong.

There is a very complex moral situation.

The main story tells the story of a young woman who arrives in Hong Kong to continue her studies.

She lives with her aunt and falls in love with a ladies' man.

She then agrees to earn money for her aunt as a luxury prostitute, just to be able to live with this man.

But this man doesn't like her.

The young girl, Ge Weilong, is from Shanghai.

You yourself were born on May 23, 1947 in Anshan, Manchuria, before arriving in Hong Kong, at the age of 5.

Back then, what did it mean to arrive in Hong Kong

I was absolutely unaware of this, because I was only five years old.

I just accepted everything.

I did not realize the differences between Manchuria and Hong Kong.

Until the age of 5, I was in China.

When I was two months old, my father and my mother went to Macao, in northern China, it was in 1947. My grandfather lived there, in this Portuguese colony.

So it was very different from Hong Kong.

My dad worked in Hong Kong and we lived in Macau.

When I was 5 years old, I joined my parents in Hong Kong and have lived there ever since.

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