Fly Me To The Moon (w. pre-recorded Director Q&A)
This summer, STArt Film Studio presents Dear Home, a touring showcase of acclaimed Chinese-language films. For our Vancouver stop, we are proud to co-present this program with the Rio Theatre, inviting you to look closely once more at the moments of love and parting. As the places we grew up in drift further away, how do our memories, attachments, and the delicate mending of family ties find their way back? We hope these cinematic letters from the silver screen bring comfort to anyone who still finds themselves longing for somewhere else.
这个夏天，STArt Film Studio 精选了几部华语电影佳作，开启《乡书何处达》巡映之旅。
Fly Me To The Moon marks the first feature length film by upcoming director, Sasha Chuk and has been the winner of several Chinese-language awards including:
- Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (2023):
- Winner: NETPAC Award (Best Asian Film).
- Winner: FIPRESCI Prize.
- Winner: Best New Performer (Yoyo Tse Wing-yan).
- Nominee: Best Adapted Screenplay (Sasha Chuk).
- Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards (2024):
- Winner: Best Actor (Wu Kang-ren).
- Winner: Best Screenplay (Sasha Chuk).
- Nominee: Best Director (Sasha Chuk), Best Actress (Yoyo Tse).
- Hong Kong Film Awards (2024):
- Winner: Best New Performer (Yoyo Tse).
- Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) (2023):
- Winner: Won five awards, including WIP Award, CCG Grand Award, and Heaven Pictures Young Director Award.
Moving from Hunan to Hong Kong at age eight, Yuen confronts a reality far from her dream home—marked by poverty, cultural barriers, and her father’s destructive drug habit. As she and her younger sister grow from quiet appeasement in childhood to resistance and escape in adolescence, Yuen eventually realizes that everyone she loves and treasures bears the inescapable shadow of her father. A profound, decades-spanning reflection on childhood memory, identity crisis, and the complicated nature of affection.
《但愿人长久》
来自湖南的新移民姐妹在香港历经二十年成长，
“Fly Me to the Moon isn’t just well-acted and well-written. Its greatest strength lies in its visual storytelling. Long takes, a fixed camera, and a restrained use of close-ups create a less deliberate, more meditative tone compared to most American melodramas.” (nadamucho.com)
“Despite appearances, Fly Me to the Moon isn’t a tragic tearjerker; Yuen and Kuet aren’t anyone to pity. There’s a clear-eyed matter-of-factness about the story that makes it as observational as it is reflective. After all, these sisters could have moved from Hawaii to Tokyo, from Damascus to Toronto, or from Durban to Adelaide and many of the same issues would rear their ugly heads. Chuk’s film is universal in that aspect, but it’s the personal touch that gives the film its emotional heft – that and a strong cast that makes everyone empathetically real rather than archetypical. Not bad for a first time. Let’s hope there’s a second.” (kai-fong.com)
Sunday, June 28
Doors 3:15 pm | Movie 3:45 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Assigned Admission – $18 (includes taxes and fees)
Tickets HERE
FLY ME TO THE MOON (Sasha Chuk, 2023 / 113 mins. / NR / Chinese w. EST) A pair of sisters moving from Hunan to Hong Kong in the 1990’s are faced with an identity crisis, poverty and their father’s drug addiction.
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