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Official Selection, 2020 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Electric and analytical, WE HAVE BOOTS marches through the last six years of activism in Hong Kong, the first draft of a history that may just as quickly be suppressed.
Jun 22, 2020 · We Have Boots premiered in February at the 2020 Rotterdam International Film Festival. Chan’s latest films also include Love and Death in Montmartre, which premiered at the 2019 Hamburg International Queer Film Festival as a Best Film nominee.
Feb 20, 2020 · By saying all this, I don’t mean to cause offence to the good young-person-movie likes of We Have Boots (Ngor moon yau yu her, Evans Chan, 2020)—think Oasis’ “Wonderwall” as one of the anthems of Occupy and you get what this wonderfully messy kitsch film about the kitsch aesthetics of social movements is up to—The Year of Discovery (El año del descubrimiento, Luis López Carrasco ...
Evans Chan's documentary We Have Boots about the Umbrella protests and their aftermath. It played as part of an excellent Hong Kong series at this year's Rotterdam International Film Festival, which I wrote about for The Notebook.
- Evans Chan
- NYHK Productions Ltd.
Jul 3, 2020 · It premiered in the focus ‘Ordinary Heroes: Made in Hong Kong’ at Rotterdam earlier this year, but the version screened at Sheffield Doc|Fest that we saw was amended with the events as recent as the Beijing-imposed National Security Law from May.
Feb 7, 2023 · Emerging from the Covid era of virtual festivals with a seeming new resolve to top itself in what it does best, the 52nd Annual Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) opened an all in-person festival on January 25, for a run through February 5, with a broad slate of 455 films, including 242 features, 97 of them world premieres.
We Have Boots: Directed by Evans Chan. While harking back to Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement of 2014, We Have Boots focuses on the post-Umbrella era of prosecution, political disqualification, and the resurfacing of Occupy and mass protests in 2019.
