Blank Canvas + A Hong Kong Farmer’s Lot + Consciously Unconscious(HKIDF 2020)

Movie Name: Blank Canvas
Language: Putonghua(Chinese, English Subtitles)
Category: IIA
Duration: 20 mins
Director: Zhao Maomao
Cast: --
Story: Ten years ago, the director’s father went through a cerebral hemorrhage, which brought his life to a halt. The making of this film allowed the director to convince his father to pick up the brush again, and soon a deeper than ever emotional bond developed between the two amid rekindled conversations and retrospection.

Movie Name: *A Hong Kong Farmer’s Lot
Language: Cantonese(Chinese, English Subtitles)
Category: I
Duration: 15 mins
Director: Chau Man Kit
Cast: --
Story: 50-year-old Brother Man is a farmer in Sheung Shui Tsiu Keng. Once a city dweller, he has now returned to the fields where parents made a living. An ancient poem “Pity the Peasants” reads: “Hoeing under the sun in the rice fields, sweat drips onto the soil beneath”. What does life have in store today for our modern day farmers?

Movie Name: Consciously Unconscious*
Language: Cantonese, English(In Parts)(Chinese, Englsh Subtitles)
Category: I
Duration: 39 Mins
Director: Ho Man Shan Idris
Cast: -
Story: Interviewing Hong Kong artists from different fields and generations: Mary Leung, Nancy Loo, Wong Sau Ching, Ong Yong Lock, Calvin Poon, Chu Pak Him, Tommy Ho, Helen Ma and Xavier Sefrin, the film is a journey through art and its creative making process in the fields of music, drama and painting.

*Q&A session with the director