It was raining non-stop when Hong Kong was rocked by the tumultuous events of October 2014 (the "umbrella movement"). In a fixed sequence shot, the film captured students meeting each other in the hall, in the rooms, discussing, arguing about or remaining indifferent to the event, while it continued to rain outside.
Watch the official The Umbrella 2018 trailer in HD below.
Hong Kong 09 March 2019
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 2018:
29 October 2018
A young man, Stevie, awakes on a wasteland overlooking Bradford, still bleeding from a brutal attack that has left him with severe memory loss.
20 April 2018
Jimmy Morris has a special surprise guest on his podcast, The Film Dick. It's Chester Holloway who reveals all the secrets behind the mysterious 1939 film, 'Sex Madness.
29 August 2018
Three close friends and their relationship to a heist pulled a few days prior, questions the job's true value.
14 February 2018
A young-wife desperate to give her beloved comatose and dying husband a child considers her only option: cloning.
09 May 2018
A kung fu fighting lady detective travels the bad lands of ancient China bringing criminals to justice.
03 May 2018
Alessandro and Anna meet by chance. Same night, different tables, both on a date where the other person does not show up.
05 December 2018
Spain, June 2014. King Juan Carlos I abdicates after forty years on the throne. The historical cycle that began in 1978 has ended.
15 August 2018
Kray, an underappreciated and underpaid stuntwoman, takes on one last job with her former gang only to be trapped in a hellish underworld.
07 December 2018
First staged at the Teatro La Fenice in 1846, Verdi’s ninth opera, Attila, returns to the stage of La Scala on December 7th.
25 October 2018
A man attempts to exit an underground car park. Something doesn't want him to.
07 June 2018
During a long hot summer in the 1970s, four boys roam free through a neglected rural paradise, until a tragedy strikes that sets them against the adult world and changes their lives forever.
29 December 2018
A powerful summary of Princess Diana's historical, political and social legacy.
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