DO NOT SPLIT

By Anders HAMMER

CINETIC MEDIA - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2020

On the front line of Hong Kong's young protest movement as it battles for democracy and justice.

Festivals
& Awards

CPH:DOX 2020
Movements
Sundance 2020
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA, NORWAY
    • Languages
    • CHINESE
    • Duration
    • 21 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Anders HAMMER
    • Producer(s)
    • Charlotte COOK
    • Synopsis
    • In 2019, protests erupted against a bill that would allow China to demand the extradition of citizens from Hong Kong. Led by the country's youth, the movement in Hong Kong became symbolic for a generation's rebellion against a system that acts over the heads of its citizens. Supported by interviews with the movement's spokespeople, 'Do Not Split' places us on the shifting front line of the young people's struggle for democracy and freedom, where violent clashes take place in a haze of tear gas in a futuristic maze of a city. Armed with umbrellas, gas masks and an indomitable solidarity, the protesters constitute an omnipresent mass, which acts in the spirit of the city's famous child Bruce Lee, as it tries to defeat the enemy by being like water.