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People Cinema: Little Cheung

Little Cheung

Fruit Chan

Hong Kong / 1999 / Col / 118'/ In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles

The eight-year-old Little Cheung often delivers takeaway for his family’s restaurant, and gets along so well with customers from all walks of life. Ah Fan, an illegal immigrant of the same age as Cheung, is declined for job at the restaurant, but Cheung befriends her. The two kids start their urban adventure from Hong Kong’s old district to Tsim Sha Tsui. Cheung runs away from family after he was punished for asking about his lost brother, and Ah Fan faces deportation owing her illegal status…

Little Cheung is the final episode of director Fruit Chan’s “1997 Trilogy”, and is also his love letter to Hong Kong. In the film, Cheung and Ah Fan shout to the harbour off Tsim Sha Tsui, “Hong Kong is ours!” Twenty years later, when we, in Tamar Park, hear their voices uttered from right across the Victoria Harbour, will we have an epiphany about our city?

Silver Leopard, 53rd Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
Best Original Screenplay, 37th Golden Horse Awards, Taiwan
Seven Nominations, 19th Hong Kong Film Awards

Major Funder

2/3 (Fri) | 7:30pm | Tamar Park | Free Admission

Please bring your own mat

Fruit Chan

Juror, Open Category, 23rd ifva Awards

Fruit Chan, Hong Kong independent film director and producer, multiple times norminee and awardees at the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Awards.