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Cockroach

director: Ai Weiwei

original title: Cockroach

country: Germany, Hong Kong

year: 2020

running time: 93 min.

synopsis

In February 2019, the Hong Kong government proposed a bill, which would have allowed the 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.

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Ai Weiwei

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