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Hong Kong documentary pulled from cinemas 3 years ago set to be screened

South China Morning Post · · 247 words · By Edith Lin
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“Hong Kong documentary pulled from cinemas 3 years ago set to be screened”
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All Wikipedia sources are unrelated to the documentary claim. No independent news sources or web results confirm the documentary's screening status.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hong Kong was under British rule from 1841 to 1997, except for a brief period of Japanese occupation during the Second World War from 1941 to 1945. It was a Crown colony of the United Kingdom from 184…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Hong_Kong
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the People's Republic of China occurred at midnight on 1 July 1997. This event ended 156 years of British rul…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover_of_Hong_Kong
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. Situated on China's southern coast just south of Shenzhen, it consists of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories. With 7.5 million re…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong
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“To My Nineteen-year-old Self will be shown at Far East Film Festival after withdrawal in 2023 over lack of consent from interviewees”
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Wikipedia sources mention unrelated topics (Hong Kong Film Awards, George Orwell's 1984). No evidence connects to the documentary's withdrawal or festival screening.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 41st Hong Kong Film Awards presentation ceremony took place at Hong Kong Cultural Centre on 16 April 2023. Nominations were announced on 9 February 2023. The Sparring Partner received 16 nominatio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41st_Hong_Kong_Film_Awards
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian speculative fiction novel by the English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and fi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the world is divided into three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, which are all fighting each other in a perpetual war in a disp…
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“An award-winning documentary capturing the lives of six girls over 10 years by Hong Kong director Mabel Cheung Yuen-ting will be screened at a film festival in Italy, three years after it was pulled from local cinemas due to a lack of consent from interviewees”
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Wikipedia entries reference Mabel Cheung's filmography but do not mention the specific documentary or its withdrawal/re-screening details.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — City of Glass (玻璃之城) is a 1998 Hong Kong romance film written and directed by Mabel Cheung and starring Leon Lai, Shu Qi, Nicola Cheung and Daniel Wu.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Glass_(film)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mabel Cheung Yuen Ting (Chinese: 張婉婷, born 17 November 1950) is a film director from Hong Kong. She is one of the leading directors in Hong Kong cinema and is considered one of the three women (along…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Cheung
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Soong Sisters is a 1997 Hong Kong historical drama film based on the lives of the Soong sisters from 1911 to 1949. The three sisters married the most important historical figures – Sun Yat-sen, Ch…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soong_Sisters_(film)
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“To My Nineteen-year-old Self, which centres on Ying Wa Girls’ School, was one of the four special screenings revealed in the Far East Film Festival’s line-up on Thursday”
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“The film festival, to be held between April 24 and May 2 in Udine, Italy, listed the documentary among 24 titles in its “out of competition” section – a category for films of “extreme value” that do not meet certain event requirements”
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“Cheung and co-director William Kwok Wai-lun as well as a producer, two unit directors and a post-production coordinator of the documentary were also on the film festival’s guest list uploaded on the same day”
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“Cheung reportedly said the screening was handled by the documentary’s distributor, Golden Scene”
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“The South China Morning Post has reached out to Cheung, Golden Scene and the Ying Wa Girls’ School for comment”
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“The documentary was pulled from screening in Hong Kong cinemas four days after its official release in February 2023, amid a brewing controversy over the lack of consent from interviewees”
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Wikipedia sources are unrelated to the documentary's withdrawal timeline or consent issues.
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