A poetic, experimental portrait of four Hong Kong women in London working to digitise records of the handover agreement between the United Kingdom and China. Impressionistic and precise, personal and expansive, Cheung's elegant, eloquent work decodes history and how politics are enacted.
Watch the official Home and a Distant Archive 2021 trailer in HD below.
Netherlands 27 January 2020
Taiwan 01 May 2021
If you liked the Home and a Distant Archive trailer, you may like these ones:
28 November 2016
Four years later, Hong Kong’s 2014 democratic Umbrella Movement has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, yet political backlash against protesters has intensified.
11 March 2017
Chinese teenagers from the wealthy elite, with big American dreams, settle into a boarding school in small-town Maine.
12 November 2016
They are frozen in place, stagnating without any direction. Around them, things change rapidly.
30 May 2021
Could our mounting modern problems have ancient solutions? Travel to the depths of China to find out.
01 January 1973
Made for German TV documentary about the early craze of Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema. While critical on the subject and not too well informed, it nevertheless offers some interesting insights into the Hong Kong film industry of that days.
01 April 2014
In their infinite quest for virgin big walls, adventurers Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll, Nicolas Favresse, Stephane Hanssens and Evrard Wendenbaum, head in September 2013 to a remote valley in the westernmost region of China.
26 May 2019
Highlights the rebellious young generation of artists in China fighting for political emancipation, artistic freedom and creating a cultural golden age during the 1980s - a significant decade of transformational change.
25 December 2016
Beneath Hong Kong's glittering facade, Filipina domestic helpers work in relative anonymity and for near-slave wages.
19 March 2017
In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convicts are often left alone, stigmatized and living in the streets.
01 May 2006
How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often seem happier than the rich? Must a society lose its traditions in order to move into the future? These are some of the questions posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray.
28 February 2008
Journey with the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic and their conductor Sir Simon Rattle on a breakneck concert tour of six metropolises across Asia: Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 2021:
17 May 2021
In 'Quédate' we meet Ana, a young prostitute, who has a disturbing encounter with Manuel, a lonely man who seeks consolation for a painful breakup.
31 December 2021
American Alien is an observational film chronicling the journey of the filmmaker to become an American citizen.
25 March 2021
Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist is a film shot in 1988 and released on VHS in 1989; a mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about Manuel Lamas, its unknown creator.
01 July 2021
Online activist, J1NX, was trying to uncover the facts before she went missing earlier this year... Now, her FaceTime history has been extracted and it's worse than you think.
01 September 2021
Just as Tessa's life begins to become unglued, nothing is what she thought it would be. Not her friends nor her family.
20 April 2021
FFF - Ludwig van Beethoven instigated a musical revolution of such historical proportions that we still know his name today.
07 October 2021
A soldier, which army, which era, unclear. What’s clear is the evil he’s done. Faced with his impending mortality, he fears being judged in the afterlife.
24 November 2021
Mooseltoe, the Moose with a Dream, and his friends come to life in this colorful, magical and whimsical musical tale.
01 November 2021
Featuring sit-down interviews with experts and historians, follows the story of the Japanese American soldiers of WWII who fought for the ideals of American democracy.
15 September 2021
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people.
08 February 2021
Jamie and Sofia Cooper's marriage is on the rocks, when they wake up one morning to find they can no longer touch.
Have you watched Home and a Distant Archive yet? What did you think about it?
