CathayPlay InstitutionTag: Overseas Chinese
Dream of Splendor
2023-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Dream of Splendor synthesizes footage from the 1962 Hong Kong film “The Magnificent Concubine” with footage of a souvenir shop…
Chinese Meet Africa
2022-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The documentary series Chinese Meet Africa is co-directed by Zhang Yong, a scholar specialized in African films and images at…
Je t’aime
2022-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
The inspiration for the original creation was based on a strong interest in Vertov’s cinematic eye theory and pure perception….
Walls
2022-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Having been supporting her family in China alone for decades, the dry-cleaning shop owner Lily meets a new customer, who…
A Young Tough
2021-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
In the summer of 2001, a boy infatuated with blowing up beetles navigates the cracks of his parents’ violently disintegrating…
Day After Day
2020-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
There is a group of people living in a shabby bungalow on the outskirts of Paris. In order to survive,…
Havana Divas
2019-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Caridad Amaran and Georgina Wong Gutierrez learned the art of Cantonese opera in the1930s in Havana. Caridad’s mentor was her…
The Transplants
2014-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A young Chinese couple struggles to adapt to their new home and grows increasingly estranged from one another and from…
Golden Gate Girls
2013-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
Esther Eng (1914-1970) was once known as “the only Chinese-American female director in Hollywood”. Early in her life, she made…
A Tree in Tanjung Malim
2004-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC
A fictional autobiographical sketch from the director’s youth. A seventeen-year-old girl skipped school and came to Kuala Lumpur. She had…