King’s College London
May 7, 2025
Hong Kong and France, 2014
Directed by
Jessey Tsang Tsui Shan
Running time
97 minutes
This event is part of Waving Kites: Hong Kong Diasporic Cinema UK Tour, organised by the Chinese Independent Film Archive at Newcastle University.
Through depicting the recurrent reunions and partings of the villagers and the intimate details of their lives, the film examines issues about urban and rural development. Filmed on locations in Hong Kong and in various cities in France and UK, Flowing Stories is an ode to village life and a journey in search of Hong Kongers’ collective roots. Tsang’s camera records the beautiful scenery and time-honored customs of the local village, as well as a once-a-decade village festival, which serves as a continuation of a tradition passed down through generations and a testament of family bonding. Today, Hong Kong citizens are confused about the future, the director hopes to review the village’s development in order to search for the meaning of home and diaspora through this meaningful local documentary.
Meet the director
Jessey Tsang Tsui-Shan, Best New Director of the 31st Hong Kong Film Award 2012. Tsang studied sound design at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts’s School of Film and Television before she entered the MFA program in Media Design and Technology at the City University of Hong Kong. After graduating in 2005. Beginning with short film productions, her works have been presented internationally. Her films have typically focused on female stories in the humanitarian grounds. In 2008 her first directed feature film Lovers On the Road won the Best Drama Award of the 8th South Taiwan Film Festival. And her second feature Big Blue Lake had won the Jury Special Award of the Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival 2013 and the Asian New Talent Jury Prix of the Shanghai International Film Festival 2012. TSANG finished her French/ Hong Kong co-production feature documentary Flowing Stories, it received the FilmAid Asia’s Humanitarian Award in 2016. Her feature dramas also included a mainland drama Scent (2014), The Lady Improper (2019) and Winter Chants(2023) . TSANG apart from narrative feature, she keeps pushing her boundary in dialogues with different art disciplines, she had been collaborating with different local dancers from 2015 making few dance video works. In 2022, her first VR project Chroma 11 was officially selected by the 79th Venice International Film Festival, Venice Immersive section.
Meet the cast and crew
Producers
Mary Stephen
Teresa Kwong Pui-Sin
Editor
Mary Stephen
