Lit yat dong hung

Hong Kong 2008, 110 min.

Cantonese with English and Czech subtitles

director: Heiward Mak Hei-Yan

starring: Lam Yiu-Sing, Sham Ka-Ki, Jeremy Liu Bak-Wing, Rex Wu Wing-Tong, Chan Yiu-Wing, Venus Wong Man-Yik, Cliff Huen Ting-Yeung, Becky Lee Pui-Yi, Yu Man-Ming

distributor: Mei Ah

Heiward Mak’s feature-length debut is a Hong Kong contribution to a project initiated by actor and producer Eric Tsang who approached young filmmakers from all three Chinese territories to express their own view of the young generation. Using a music-video style and a handycam look, this film portrays a group of seventeen-year-old classmates to show the everyday lives of teenagers in Hong Kong in the new millennium. The upcoming high school graduation exam is a milestone between untroubled youth and adulthood with its social and existential commitments. Right now, their lives are about love, friendship, fun, parties, alcohol, and drugs. Mak directed this film, overflowing with youthful emotions, when she was only twenty-three years old.