Ten Years - Berlin Screening 《十年》

Ten Years of Hong Kong

The independent Hong Kong film Ten Years focuses on topics from the social and political controversies of the city, such as the implementation of China’s national security law, political independence of Hong Kong and the defense of Cantonese. The political taboos have riled Beijing that the film was banned in mainland China and being called "a virus of the mind" by the state media. Yet it has received the Best Film prize at the Hong Kong Film Awards. As a gesture of resistance towards the suppression, community screenings were organised in Hong Kong and overseas cities such as London, Birmingham, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney. We are a group of Hongkongers from Berlin.

We are now organizing a screening of Ten Years in Berlin on July 1st, which is the anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover from the United Kingdom to China. The screening aims to reach to the communities in Berlin who wish to gain more insights about Hong Kong under the increasing control of the autocratic government of China.

Event Details
Date: July 1, 2016
Time: 8 pm
Venue: Kino in der KulturBrauerei (Schönhauser Allee 36, 10435 Berlin, Germany)
In Cantonese (With Chinese and English subtitles)
Duration: 104 Minutes
Directors:﹕Zune Kwok, Wong Fei-pang, Jevons Au, Chow Kwun-wai, Ng Ka-leung

Participation
You can donate €8 to our project in reward for a ticket for the screening. After the fundraising campaign is accomplished, you will receive a code from us. Please present your full name and the given code for entry on the day. Please make sure that you provide a valid email address and keep the code with you.

Free Seating. First come, first served.

About the movie

Ten Years depicts a bleak future of Hong Kong by 2025 under the political control of China. The movie is made up of five short films directed by five emerging directors, who have attempted to hypothesize Hong Kong's condition for the next ten years.

“Extras” unveils a false assassination of pro-Beijing camp members in the Labour Day celebration. The intention behind the assassination is to propagate the legislation of the national security law.

Two young people in “Season of the End” attempt to preserve objects from bulldozed homes. When the city has lost sight on conservation, mementos are the only way of preserving familiar objects, and our bodies.

“Dialect” predicts the marginalization of the principal language of Hong Kong – Cantonese, giving way to Putonghua (Mandarin). Speaking Cantonese is portrayed as becoming a violation of school rules and potentially the law.

“Self-Immolator” unfolds an investigation of a suspected case of self-immolation. Imagine that, if one day a Hong Kong citizen set himself on fire to protest against the suppression of freedom, can the rest of us sit back and watch?

In “Local Egg”, elementary school students join the Youth Guards and blindly follow the orders of their superiors. Will you wish this fate on your children or grandchildren?

In reality, we cannot predict what will happen in ten years time. The worsening condition of Hong Kong in recent years, such as the riot in Mong Kok, the disappearance of book-seller Lee Bo and the positioning of Cantonese as a dialect, are signals of a to-be-dystopia. It is possible that it will take less than ten years to turn the grim prophesy into a reality.

《十年》是一齣香港的獨立電影，以香港的社會、政治爭議取題，如在港推行中國大陸的國家安全法、香港獨立、捍衛廣東話等。電影因觸及政治禁忌，遭中國大陸全方位封殺，斥之為「思想病毒」，而另一邊廂，《十年》則榮獲香港電影金像獎最佳電影獎。中共的封殺激起海外民間自發聲援，倫敦、伯明翰、多倫多、墨爾本及悉尼相繼舉行《十年》放映會。我們是住在柏林的香港人，現正籌備柏林《十年》放映會；是次活動非單為一場電影活動，放映會擬定七一舉行，想藉此向政權發出宣言，無懼封殺；同時也希望藉著電影讓柏林人了解，香港在中國大陸下的處境。

活動資料：
日期: July 1, 2016
時間: 8pm
地點: Kino in der KulturBrauerei (Schönhauser Allee 36, 10435 Berlin, Germany)
粵語(中英文字幕)
片長：104 分鐘
導演 ﹕郭臻、黃飛鵬、歐文傑、周冠威、伍嘉良

參加放映會

如你想參加我們的放映會，可點選8歐的捐款選項以取得門票一張。眾籌成功之後，你將會收到由我們發出的一組號碼。你只需在放映當日出示名字及該組號碼即可入場。請你確保電郵地址正確及保管號碼。

放映會不設劃位，敬請提早入場。

電影簡介
《十年》預言香港未來十年在中國政治控制下的陰霾。電影集合了五部短片，五位新秀導演想像十年後香港將變成怎樣。
《浮瓜》講述一場在五一勞動節策劃的「自編自導」槍殺案，幕後黑手目的是找藉口推行國家安全法；《冬蟬》裡的兩位年輕人眼見推土機把家園摧毀，我城的保育意識走到盡頭，只能用標本留住一切，包括自己的身體；《方言》預言港人的日常語言廣東話被普通話取締，講廣東話被視為犯校規，甚至犯法；《自焚者》的人物被牽連入一宗懷疑自焚案件。你可有想過，若香港有天真的有人為了捍衛自由而自焚，我們又能夠獨善其身嗎？《本地蛋》描寫學童加入少年軍後盲目執行長官命令，日夜搜查標有「本地」的貨品。你希望你的下一代變成劇中人嗎？

返回現實，我們無法預知十年後的境況，但以今日處境設想將來與電影內容對比，已見端倪：旺角騷亂、李波失蹤、廣東話被視為方言等連番爭議，似乎電影中的預言，未及十年，已活現眼前。

In order to realize the project, the fundraising campaign aims to reach the goal of €1,000. You can either attend the screening by means of donation or simply help us in reaching the goal. We need your support no matter where you are.
**If the goal is not reached by June 30th, the fundraising will fail and the screening has to be cancelled. Your money will be returned to you within 14 business days.

柏林《十年》放映會要籌得1000歐才成事，因此除了捐款換取戲票，我們也希望大家可以捐款支持，令眾籌早日達標。無論你身處何地，我們也需要你的支持和參與。
** 若30/6前未能達標，則被當作籌款失敗，放映會將無法舉行，捐款則會在14個工作天內歸還給捐助人。

Ten Years has been greatly hindered since its screening. Many cinemas refused to show the movie under political pressure despite great interest and packed screenings. China has boycotted the broadcast of the Hong Kong Film Awards since Ten Years was nominated for best film, and later on condemned by China’s state media. Just before the movie was made available on iTunes Store in Hong Kong, the Chinese government shut down the iTunes’ movie service in China. Amid the suppression, we hope to make the screening a protest against the autocratic power. We hope you can support Ten Years for upholding the freedom and democracy of Hong Kong.

《十年》自上映以來一直受到政權打壓，在票房賣座的情況下仍然有多間戲院拒絕上映，自電影獲得金像獎提名後中國大陸封殺金像獎內地直播，官媒劣評，而就在香港iTunes Store出售《十年》之前，中國政府下令關閉內地的iTunes Store。面對種種打壓，我們希望這次放映是向政治打壓說不，你的參與除了是對本電影的支持，也是對香港爭取自由民主的支持﹗

The screening is a not-for-profit event. Every cent you give will be used to pay for the rental of cinema, the screening fee charged by the distributor, the delivery of the film and the administration fee of this crowdfunding site Startnext.com (5% or under).

放映以非牟利形式舉辦，全數善款收益用以抵消場地租金、影片版權、運費、宣傳，以及本眾籌網站Startnext.com的行政費(不多於5%)。