Hong Kong director who won the "Freedom Again" appealed Venice Film Festival September 8, 12:05
A Hong Kong film director who won the Best Screenplay Award at one of the world's three largest film festivals, the Venice Film Festival in Italy, said in a speech, "I want Hong Kong to feel free again." Gave me a big applause.
At the Venice Film Festival in Italy, the award ceremony was held on the evening of the final day of the 7th. In the most prestigious competition category, the “Joker” directed by Todd Phillips in the United States won the “Gold Lion” award. I won a prize.
Among them, Hong Kong film director Yong Hwan won the Best Screenplay Award for the animated film “Number Seven Cherry Lane”, which he directed and screened.
The work is about the massive opposition to the British colonial rule that took place in Hong Kong, while the Chinese continent was in the Great Cultural Revolution in the 1960s.
In the award speech, Yong Hwan talked about the joy of the award and touched on the current situation in Hong Kong where protests continued, “I get the impression that the same thing happened 52 years ago. “I want you to be able to feel it,” he said.
Yong Hwan said in a statement to the film festival: “This is my love letter to Hong Kong and the movie. It ’s a story about yesterday, today, and tomorrow, above all, a film about liberation.” At the film festival, it attracted a great deal of attention, with cheering every time it was shown in front of the audience.