CELL 364

Hong Kong International Documentary 2020
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Date Time Venue
20/11 (Fri)   7:50pm   MOViE MOViE Cityplaza
29/11 (Sun) 5:50pm PREMIERE ELEMENTS

Mathilde Babo, Zoé Rossion
France, Germany / 2020 / 4min
In German with Eng Sub

Synopsis
An ex-political prisoner jailed by the Stasi of East Germany revisits his cell, recounting his incarceration and the harrowing interrogation tacticsby East Germany's intelligence unit.

Director's Profile
Mathilde Babo studied film in Rome and Paris. Her short films were finalists in many film festivals. Recently, she made her first radio documentary On the Other Side of the Wall for the Belgian National Radio.

Zoé Rossion graduated in Cinema from HEAD Geneva, Switzerland. Her works, which deal with social and postcolonial issues, have won awards at many festivals since her days of studies.

Director's Note
We decided to make this film in 2019 for the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the wall of Berlin. We wanted to come back to the dark pages of the GDR history and talk about the surveillance society that was established in that regime. Also because surveillance society is a very hot topic at the moment all around the world. The interrogators of the jail would use what they called "white torture", a kind of psychological torture that leaves no physical traces. Nowadays, you can visit the jail. It is interesting to know that all the tour guides are former prisoners of this jail, and Hans (the focus of the film) is one of them. - Mathilde Babo
Ticketing

Ticketing

Tickets will be available at screening venue and the Broadway Cinema Website from 23 October.

Ticket Price:$75 / $55*
*Full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and their minder and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients.

 

Enquiries
Visible Record
Tel: 2540 7859
Email: visiblerecord@gmail.com