#3: Cockroach
CICLO DE CONVERSAS E VISITAS
The films os Ai Weiwei in four moments
Screening 3
Cockroach 2020
| 1h33
Access: Free of charge, subject to advance ticket collection.
Cockroach (2020, 1h33)
In February 2019, the Hong Kong government proposed a
bill which would have allowed extradition of criminal suspects from Hong Kong
to face trial in mainland China. The controversial bill sparked immediate
outrage over widespread fear of arbitrary detention and politically motivated
trials that would decimate Hong Kong’s autonomy under ‘one country, two
systems.’ Anti-bill protests escalated into pro-democracy demonstrations.
Cockroach, filmed during the
height of the protests, captures the extraordinary intensity of an
unprecedented era in Hong Kong’s history. Spanning the evolution of the protest
movement, it captures street demonstrations, police suppression and violence,
and key events such as the multi-day siege of Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Interviews with Hong Kongers feature activists, protestors, politicians,
ordinary citizens, and policemen. Prominent legislators, lawyers and activists
articulate the perils of intensifying assaults on freedoms and rule of law.