Directed by Kok Rui Lau, a Malaysian writer-director who studied film and lived in Hong Kong, The Sunny Side of the Street is a story of a child who longs for father’s love and a father who struggles to understand his son. These two characters sketch an image of the director’s immigrant life and he sees this film as a dialogue between him and his father. Hong Kong is a midway point for refugees from all over the world, there are thousands of asylum seekers in this city waiting for the government to grant them refugee status. The film is about a refugee boy who is helped by a local taxi driver to flee Hong Kong after his father died in a car crash. They develop the father-son relationship until the boy finds the driver is the murderer of his father.
Preceded by the short film Flavours of Hope: Nourishing Community, Cultivating Change (7 min)
A CBC documentary on Flavours of Hope, supporting immigrant and refugee women in turning their cooking into thriving businesses.
Presented by
Kok Rui Lau
Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Endy Chow, Sahal Zaman, Kiranjeet Gill
Hong Kong/Malaysia
2022
In Cantonese and Urdu with English and traditional Chinese subtitles
Violence, coarse language
Open to youth!
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Indigenous & Community Access
Credits
Producer
Vinod Sekhar, Soi Cheang, Winnie Tsang, Peter Yam
Screenwriter
Kok Rui Lau
Cinematography
Ming-Kai Leung
Editor
Matthieu Laclau, Yann-Shan Tsai
Original Music
Julian Chan, Kwan Fai Lam
Art Director
Lok Yi Tsui