Distant Voices, Still Lives(19th Fresh Wave)

Movie Name: The Last Ranger
Language: English, Xhosa(Chinese, English subtitles)
Category: TBC
Duration: 28 min
Director: Cindy LEE

Movie Name: We Miss, We Meet, We Move On
Language: Cantonese(Chinese, English subtitles)
Category: TBC
Duration: 30 min
Director: HO Ka-ho

Movie Name: Sleeping Swan
Language: Japanese(Chinese, English subtitles)
Category: TBC
Duration: 31 min
Director: SATO Sonomi

Movie Name: Speak to the Tide
Language: Cantonese(Chinese, English subtitles)
Category: TBC
Duration: 30 min
Director: CHU Ka-shing

In The Last Ranger, Litha meets her friend Khuselwa, a female ranger from the only remaining game reserve. The two plan to go see the nearby rhinos, but they suddenly encounter three poachers who are illegally hunting rhinos for their horns. Litha watches Khuselwa engage in gunfire but eventually discovers the cruel truth. We Miss, We Meet, We Move On depicts a road trip romance through a series of analogies related to modes of transportation, filling the screen with scenery on the roads of Hong Kong, and charts the social changes of Hong Kong since the turn of the century. SHIRAMOTO Ayana, the rising star from The Box Man (2024), and new actor SUWA Shuri breathe life into this chance encounter in Sleeping Swan. With simple yet moving images, it gently leads the audience into the state of a contemplative ‘sleeping swan’. Speak to the Tideis about one day after class, students Richard and LAM Mak-noeng, a mysteriously masked girl who shares the same name as the Empress of Heaven, come to Ning, a substitute teacher, for help. It turns out that Mak-noeng is about to disappear.