My Theatre + Around the Bed of a Dying Collaborator + In Want of a Mask(HKIDF 2020)

Movie Name: My Theatre
Language: Japanese(English Subtitles)
Category: I
Duration: 20 mins
Director: Kazuya Ashizawa
Cast: --
Story: Living in Motomiya shi in Fukushima, Japan, Shuji Tamura inherited his father’s 100-year old cinema – the Motomiya Theatre – at the age of 21. Sadly the booming TV industry eventually put the small theatre out of business and Tamura was forced to shut it down and look for another living. For half a century, the theatre was left deserted until Tamura retired and gave the theatre’s vintage projector a new lease on life.

Movie Name: Around the Bed of a Dying Collaborator
Language: Arabic, Hebrew(Chinese, English Subtitles)
Category: IIA
Duration: 51 mins
Director: Tal Michael, David Ofek
Cast: --
Story: For years, Unes collaborated with the Israelis and sold land from his fellow Palestinians to Jews. Today, he lives in constant fear of retaliation by his own people. Bedridden and paralysed after a stroke, he spends his days watching the live feed from security cameras installed around his home. His family ponder leaving the country and even after his death, their headache isn’t over as they have trouble finding a burial ground.

Movie Name: In Want of a Mask
Language: Cantonese, Putonghua(In Parts)(Chinese, English Subtitles)
Category: IIB
Duration: 15 mins
Director: Tsang Kam Shan
Cast: --
Story: When a new strain of coronavirus wreaked havoc in Wuhan in early February 2020, panic spread among the residents of Hong Kong as mainland Chinese continued to enter the territory by the thousands daily. A shortage of face masks soon followed, and when a non-government organisation managed to secure a batch for distribution to the elderly, many senior citizens showed up to wait in line.