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Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down
LEUNG Ming-kai, Kate REILLY
Release year: 2019
Run time: 67 minutes
Film type: Fiction, Documentary
Synopsis
(Editor’s note: There are four independent chapters in this film)
FORBIDDEN CITY
Two immigrant Hong Kong women – one from mainland China, one from
Indonesia – live together in a little village. They battle wits on an epic journey to
the big city.
TOY STORIES
Brothers return to their working-class neighborhood for one last hangout in their mother’s
toy store. With new responsibilities looming, they take refuge in behaving like children.
YUEN YEUNG
A local economics teacher and a ""native English-speaking teacher"" from the
States spend one school year crisscrossing Hong Kong. As they say goodbye,
they recall connecting and disconnecting over after-school snacks.
IT’S NOT GONNA BE FUN
A young barista and music-video star puts aside her many interests to run for political
office. She fights both a pro-establishment incumbent and her own disdain for human
interaction.
Director biography
Leung Ming-kai is a cinematographer and filmmaker from Hong Kong. Kai has shot more than a dozen celebrated features in different parts of the world. These include Sylvia Chang's Murmur of the Hearts, Johnny Ma's Old Stone, and Anocha Suwichakornpong's By the Time It Gets Dark. Festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, New York, Rotterdam, and New Directors/New Films have selected films he shot. Kai has been nominated for various national cinematography awards. His most recent cinematography effort, Ray Yeung’s Suk Suk, screened at Berlin and was nominated for Best Picture at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
Kai has also directed several short films. Three Boys represented the Philippines in competition at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and won the top prize at the Hong Kong Independent Film & Video Awards. It also screened at São Paulo, Austin, and Jecheon. Lock (starring co-director Kate Reilly) was in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Kate Reilly is an actor and filmmaker from the United States. As an actor, Kate has worked with directors including Anocha Suwichakornpong, John Magary, Lee Chatametikool, and Leung Ming-kai, in films that were selected by Rotterdam's Tiger Awards, Busan, Tribeca, Tokyo, and Edinburgh Film Festivals, as well as HBO’s US Comedy Arts Festival.
Kate acted with New York theater group Polybe + Seats, which the Village Voice called ""a smart and ambitious company."" Critics described her lead performance in their play A History of Launching Ships as ""marvelous"" and ""a pleasure to watch."" Kate was on a house sketch team that wrote and performed live comedy at the Peoples Improv
Theater in New York. She wrote for and produced Lock-in!, a variety show, and played Dorothy in improvised Golden Girls episodes.
(Editor’s note: There are four independent chapters in this film)
FORBIDDEN CITY
Two immigrant Hong Kong women – one from mainland China, one from
Indonesia – live together in a little village. They battle wits on an epic journey to
the big city.
TOY STORIES
Brothers return to their working-class neighborhood for one last hangout in their mother’s
toy store. With new responsibilities looming, they take refuge in behaving like children.
YUEN YEUNG
A local economics teacher and a ""native English-speaking teacher"" from the
States spend one school year crisscrossing Hong Kong. As they say goodbye,
they recall connecting and disconnecting over after-school snacks.
IT’S NOT GONNA BE FUN
A young barista and music-video star puts aside her many interests to run for political
office. She fights both a pro-establishment incumbent and her own disdain for human
interaction. 