Credits

Regie

Sasha CHUK

Cast

WU Kang-ren, Sasha CHUK, Angela YUEN, TSE Wing-yan, Natalie HSU

Genre

drama

Speelduur

113 minuten

Land

Hong Kong

Taal

Cantonese, Mandarin

Ondertiteling

English, Chinese

Storyline

In 1997, on the eve of the handover, young Yuen and her mother leave Hunan to join her father in Hong Kong. However, the hope of a new start for the family is fractured by her father’s drug addiction and criminal inclinations, along with her mother’s perpetual state of disappointment. Tensions temporarily ease when Yuen’s younger sister, Kuet, reunites with the family. Over the years, the sisters navigate a hostile new environment as they come of age, grappling with their migrant identities, poverty, and insecurity, while their father cycles in and out of prison.

Spanning over two decades, Fly Me to the Moon intimately explores a family separated by circumstance and the sisters’ fleeting bond and their evolving relationships with their father. Produced by renowned filmmaker Stanley KWAN, this debut feature, based on director Sasha CHUK’s semi-autobiographical novella, is a stunning illustration of the complexity of family relationships in Hong Kong, weaving the personal with the fabric of a society in historical transition.