ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW

ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW (SUI YUET SAN TAU), 2010
Hong Kong | 35mm, Color, 117´ | Cantonese, Mandarin
Director: Alex Law
Cast: Simon Yam, Sandra Ng, Aarif Lee

Set in 1960s Hong Kong and manifesting the socio-economic changes the country underwent through many elements ranging from class division to typhoons and from corruption to incurable disease, the plot develops around the family’s eldest son, an athletic boy popular in his school, getting leukemia. The film won the Crystal Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival in the Generation category and was a great success at the 2010 Hong Kong Film Awards.