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A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

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MOVIE2023 1h 37m CHN

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Like Total Trust, it turns pervasive surveillance into an intimate human reality, patiently uncovering how monitoring reshapes a community’s memory, trust and sense of safety.

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A close, urgent portrait of Chinese activists confronting state intimidation, with the same emphasis on ordinary people sustaining courage under an oppressive system.

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Its personal investigative approach connects individual testimony to the machinery of official control, preserving the emotional weight and moral clarity of Total Trust.

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A more essayistic companion: it examines cameras, policing and the illusion of objective images with a probing visual intelligence that complements Total Trust’s surveillance concerns.

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This immediate, ground-level account of Hong Kong’s protest movement shares Total Trust’s tension between civic resistance and an increasingly powerful apparatus of control.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

By exploring the relationship between the watched and the watching, our film uncovers the trauma and hope engendered by the Chinese all-surveilling state and lends a voice to those that stand in resilient defiance of such blatant abuse of power.

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