Borrowed Time

人海同游

CHOY Ji

  • 95 min
  • 2023
  • Fiction
  • Cantonese
  • English and Chinese Subtitles

North American Premiere

5:30 PM, TUE, AUG 13

Innis Town Hall

Zoom Q&A with Director · Screening and Zoom Q&A with Director

Lychees, a typhoon and a bootleg CD evoke dreams and regrets between Hong Kong and Guangzhou. For her mother Chau-Kuen (PAN Jie), Hong Kong means an unfulfilled quest for love; for Ting (LIN Dongping), it’s a solitary search for her father, encountering faces in the vast sea of people, both familiar and unfamiliar at the same time.

Director

CHOY Ji headshot

CHOY Ji was born in 1988 in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China. His short films include Nature’s Kids (2012), Recalling (2013), and A Piece of Time (2014). His works have won the Best Short Film at the China Independent Film Festival and have been selected for the Busan International Short Film Festival and the Tampere Film Festival. He participated in the Berlinale Talents Tokyo in 2016. His debut feature Borrowed Time premiered in the New Currents section of the 28th Busan International Film Festival.

Credits

  • DirectorCHOY Ji
  • Principal CastLIN Dongping, PAN Jie, Sunny SUN, Eddy AU-YEUNG, Tai-Bo
  • ProducerMO Jinjin
  • Executive ProducerStanley KWAN
  • ScreenplayWANG Yin
  • CinematographerHUANG Shuli
  • Production DesignerAlbert POON Yick Sum, LI Xinhe
  • Costume DesignerAlbert POON Yick Sum
  • EditorQIN Ya’nan
  • SoundBobo LAU
  • MusicSummer LEI