"In 2015, a scrappy group of Hong Kong film-makers imagined what their semi-autonomous city could look like under the increasing influence of the Chinese Communist party (CCP). Any resemblance to actual events or persons is entirely coincidental, reads the first scene in the opening credits. But decade on, many of the predictions made in Ten Years have, in some form, come to pass."
"The Occupy protests in 2014 saw tens of thousands of protesters, many of them students, occupy the streets of central Hong Kong for weeks to demand fully democratic elections. Although the protests failed, they awakened a political consciousness in a generation of Hongkongers who would take to the streets again five years later, in even greater numbers, prompting an even bigger crackdown."
Ten Years comprises five short vignettes imagining Hong Kong under increasing Chinese Communist Party influence, portraying language sidelining, vigilantism, and political imprisonment. A taxi driver faces economic and cultural displacement as Cantonese gives way to Mandarin, petty gangsters assume policing roles, and independence supporters receive jail sentences. The film draws on the political awakening triggered by the 2014 Occupy protests and depicts a generation returning to mass protest and encountering harsher repression. Made for HK$500,000, the film filled independent and community screenings despite commercial pullouts and state criticism, and it won Best Film at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
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