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A Fig
Vincent CHUI
Release year: 2013
Run time: 97 minutes
Film type: Fiction
Synopsis
Written by Hong Kong Film Awards winner Lou Shiu-Wa (The Way We Are, 2008), this latest feature from indie filmmakers Vincent Chui is a realistic, unadorned portrayal of contemporary family and love relationships: Ka, a common housewife, leaves her husband after big change in the family. Then she encounters Man, who has for years blamed her father Chow for bringing to light his relationship with his lover Tracy after the accidental death of Man’s mother. And so it seems that from departures stems relationships anew, but there are in fact little to be explained in the logic of cause-and-effect for existence, death, encounters, and love.
Director biography
Previously worked at television stations and film companies. Since 1993, he has been involved in independent productions and has received awards from the Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards. In 1997, he co-founded Ying E Chi with other independent filmmakers to promote and distribute Hong Kong’s independent productions. That same year, he co-directed the documentary Ordinary Heroes with director Ann Hui.
In 2001, he completed his first feature film Leaving in Sorrow, which was invited to several international film festivals. He later directed Fear of Intimacy, starring Tony Leung Ka-Fai, which was selected for competition at the Moscow International Film Festival. He also directed Three Narrow Gates starring Liu Kai-Chi, another commercial feature film Love Is Elsewhere, and an independent feature film Fig, which was shot in Macau and selected for competition at the 10th China Independent Film Festival.
He also has produced several independent films, including End of Love, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival, and two feature documentaries, Yellowing and Lost in the Fumes, both of which won awards at the Taiwan International Documentary Festival.
