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A woman and a young man in the middle of a meal in the middle of the foreground. A kitchen is set at the left-hand side of the background, while a bedroom is set at the right-hand side of the background.

The Way We Are​ & Shorts

Details
Programme: Hong Kong: The Establishing Shot
Format: DCP / Category I / 104 min.
Language: Cantonese (with Chinese and/or English subtitles)
Audience: Everyone
Location: House 1
A woman and a young man in the middle of a meal in the middle of the foreground. A kitchen is set at the left-hand side of the background, while a bedroom is set at the right-hand side of the background.

The Way We Are​ & Shorts

Hong Kong's suburban neighbourhoods, public housing estates, and hangouts are vital aspects of the city's local identity. In ‘A Different View’, a subchapter of ‘Hong Kong: The Establishing Shot’, these spaces come to life through lesser-told stories about the relationship of Hongkongers with their quotidian environments—offering moments of connection and beauty told in intimate settings.

The Way We Are​

Ann Hui | 2008 | Digital | Chinese & English subtitles | 90 min.

Set in Tin Shui Wai, a marginalised satellite town, The Way We Are counters the area's reputation as a 'city of sadness' by focusing on the day-to-day moments of the lives of its inhabitants across its public housing estates. Kwai, a middle-aged widow who works hard in a neighbourhood supermarket to support herself and her son On, who is having a case of post-exam ennui, strikes up a friendship with an older woman, Foon. Kwai helps Foon to ease into her new job in every way she can. Filmed with an early digital camera, Hui captures the everyday of a local community that is muted yet beyond ordinary.

Several plastic bags hanging on a door in the left-hand side of the foreground, and a woman in a round collar short sleeves shirt is in the middle of a tile-walled room, cooking vegetables on a stove.

Directed by Ann Hui. The Way We Are, 2008. Photo: Courtesy of Television Broadcasts Ltd

Woman dressed in a white hat, orange check shirt and an apron holding a packed durian in the centre, another woman dressed in similar attire on the left-hand side of the background, and the back of a man's head appears on the right-hand side of the foreground.

Directed by Ann Hui. The Way We Are, 2008. Photo: Courtesy of Television Broadcasts Ltd

Accompanying Shorts

Kitchen stove counter in the foreground, with a woman standing behind, smiling directly into the camera, and a shelf with cooking ingredients and utensils in the background.

Mrs. Fong’s Food Forum—Fried Capelin with Western Sauce, 1991. Photo: Courtesy of Asia Television Limited

Man dressed in a costume with a round figure and two antenna-like eyes facing the front.

Hong Kong Broadband 18 Districts (Tin Shui Wai), 2009. Photo: Courtesy of The Association of Accredited Advertising Agencies of Hong Kong

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