Fly Me to the Moon Film Screening - London

Ticket Prices:

Standard: £16

Suitable ONLY for 15 years and over

Film Info:

FILM TITLE:  Fly Me to the Moon

COUNTRY/REGION: Hong Kong

GENRE | FORMAT | LANGUAGE | RUNNING TIME:

Drama| DCP | Cantonese, Mandarin, Hunan Dialect, Japanese | 111 mins

DIRECTOR, SCREENWRITER:

Sasha CHUK

PRODUCER:

Stanley KWAN

CO-PRODUCER:

Jun LI

CAST:

WU Kang-ren

Sasha CHUK

Angela YUEN

TSE Wing-yan

Natalie HSU

LOG-LINE

A pair of sisters moving from Hunan to Hong Kong in the 90s are faced with identity crisis, poverty and their addict father.

SYNOPSIS

'Perhaps all our likings come later in life. All our affections come from a piece of childhood memory.'

Yuen moves to Hong Kong with her mother from Hunan at the age of 8 to reunite with her father. Everything in the city is dazzling and new to her. However, the family face poverty and a cultural barrier. Worse still, the father has a drug habit and has a difficult relationship with the family. This certainly is not the dream home Yuen has been looking forward to. All she wants is that her younger sister could reunite with them as soon as possible.

Out of fear, the sisters try to appease their father in their younger years. As soon as they reach adolescence, they start to resist and escape from him. However, even after they grow up and move away from him, Yuen realizes all the people she loves and treasures resemble her father in her childhood memories.

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

One day when I was early for a film screening, I went to the fast-food store next to the cinema. Suddenly, I was struck by a memory from my childhood.

When my father brought me to watch 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' when I was a child, we dined at the same fast-food store. We used to go to another store at Kowloon Park after he taught me how to swim. That was the time when he was young, and I looked up to him.

I miss the times when I have yet to understand the feeling of sadness. Also remembering that good times existed, albeit being very short. This film is for all the people who have hated their parents, who have come to understand the complexity of life, and the struggle of being parents themselves.

DIRECTOR｜Sasha CHUK

Sasha Chuk majored in Chinese literature and Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. Her short film ‘The Dropout of Her’ (2019) won Best Cinematography at the 13th Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival. Her next short film, ‘Plain Sailing’ (2022) won the Gold Award at the 27th ifva Awards (Asian Open Category) and was also selected in the 2022 Osaka Asian Film Festival. In 2020, she won the 6th First Film Initiative by Create Hong Kong with her screenplay 'Fly Me to the Moon', an adaptation from her novel. ‘Fly Me to The Moon’ is her feature directorial debut, which earned her a ‘Best Adapted Screenplay’ nomination at the 60th Golden Horse Awards.

PRODUCER｜Stanley KWAN

Stanley Kwan is a Hong Kong film director and producer. His works include Rouge, Center Stage, Lan Yu and Everlasting Regret. He has won Best Director at the Hong Kong Film Awards for Rouge, Best Director at the Golden Horse Awards for Lan Yu. For Center Stage, he won Best Director at the Chicago International Film Festival and Maggie Cheung won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival.

CO-PRODUCER｜Jun LI

After graduating from the Journalism Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Jun Li went on to obtain a Master of Philosophy in Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge. In 2017, his short film ‘Liu Yang He’ won the Fresh Wave Award and the Best Director Award at the 11th Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival; in 2018, his short film ‘My World’ was nominated for Best Short Film at the 55th Golden Horse Awards. In the same year, he completed his first feature film ‘Tracy’ (2018), for which Li was nominated for the Hong Kong Film Awards for New Director and Best Screenplay.

In 2021, his second feature film ‘Drifting’ premiered in competition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and was nominated for 12 awards including Best Feature Film and Best Director at the 58th Golden Horse Awards, and subsequently won the Best Adapted Screenplay Award.