Berlin Film Screening 柏林放映 | Rather be Ashes Than Dust 寧化飛灰

​Berlin Film Screening 柏林放映 | Rather be Ashes Than Dust 寧化飛灰

​🌟Language: Cantonese & English with English subtitles

​💵 Ticket price: 10€

​🎫 Tickets：https://fsk-kino.peripherfilm.de/en/events/event/rather-be-ashes-than-dust/

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​What are the challenges journalists face when covering increasingly challenging global crisis of war, civil disobedience, famine and hunger? Witnessing acts of government crackdown and injustice, should they remain objective? What are their choices when the government turns against them?

„Rather be Ashes than Dust“ is a first person documentary chronicling a journalist-filmmaker’s struggle with his conscience while witnessing intense police brutality against protesters during the 2019 movement in Hong Kong. In 2020, a year into the protest movement, China imposed the National Security Law on Hong Kong, taking away its judicial independence and the many freedoms promised by the Joint Declaration, including the freedom of expression. Many journalists had to decide: do I shut up, go to prison, or leave?

Using the Hong Kong protest movement in 2019 as a backdrop, this film will follow a video journalist’s four-years journey to find the answers to these questions.

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​🎦Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOBmgl6Q0-0