On winter solstice day, a tram arrives at the terminus, depositing the last passenger in an old neighbourhood. Roaming eerily empty streets among surroundings at once familiar and strange, the old woman has her mind firmly set on one task, prompting her panic-stricken son to abandon his work and speed to her side. Somewhere, sometime else, a young woman is frantically searching for her little boy. In a city that prides itself on overnight transformations and clearing out the old to make way for the new, the mother takes her son on a reverie where the past and the present, memories and realisations are immutably and inexorably mixed.
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Jerry Wong Chi Wai Director · Lai Kin Sang Writer Raymond Fung Cheuk Ting Cinematographer
First release December 7, 2013 · Produced in Hong Kong SAR China · Production Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong Design Institute
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Fresh Wave
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Hong Kong Arts Development Council
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Hong Kong Design Institute
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Hong Kong SAR China
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Original title
蜃樓
Original language
Cantonese
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Cantonese
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Hong Kong SAR China · December 7, 2013
Premiere · Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival 2013
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