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SIMON SAYS, SIMON SAYS

By Chi-Yan SIU

FRESH WAVE FILM FESTIVAL LIMITED - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline / FIN / FEST

Drama - Completed 2022

An elderly woman has packed her bags for a one-way flight out of the city with her son. However, she is still hesitant about leaving her home country. In her last few hours with her Filipino maid, she realised what it means to be uprooted from one’s homeland.

Festivals
& Awards

Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival 2022
Local Competition: Fresh Wave Award and Best Screenplay
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2022
Official Selection
Seeing the Unseen Film Festival 2022
Official Selection
Hong Kong Film Festival UK 2023
Official Selection
Singapore Chinese Film Festival 2023
Official Selection
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Drama, Family, Female director
    • Countries
    • HONG KONG (CHINA)
    • Languages
    • CANTONESE, ENGLISH, TAGALOG
    • Duration
    • 30 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Chi-Yan SIU
    • Writer(s)
    • Chi-Yan SIU
    • Producer(s)
    • Terron Tsz-Tung CHAN
    • Synopsis
    • Amid changing times, as friends and relatives are leaving the city one after the other, our once familiar neighbourhood is becoming foreign. Yeung Por Por has her luggage packed for the one-way flight out of the city with her son. During her final hours in Hong Kong, she goes to the Wan Chai seaside and is shocked to find a barricaded construction site. Following Rhea, her domestic helper to the latter’s Filipino community, Yeung Por Por realises what it means to be uprooted from one’s homeland. Subtly and wistfully, the film relates the difficulties and dilemmas of migration, closing with ‘You Said We’d Be Back’ by the folk-rock duo My Little Airport.