Borrowed Time (2023)

Soon-to-be married Mak Yuen Ting leaves for Hong Kong in search of her father, who left twenty years before. Her father, Mak Ka Fai, had come to Guangzhou for work, met Yuen Ting’s mother, married, and lived with her for ten years before abruptly leaving for Hong Kong. Yuen Ting discovers the last letter sent to her mother from her father, who was already married when he came to Guangzhou, and decides to head to Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, as typhoon sweeps through, she crosses paths with an old acquaintance, who had given her a CD titled “Borrowed Time.” Leaving behind her parents’ times of love-hate as intricately intertwined as the relationship between Hong Kong and mainland China in the late 1980s, Yuen Ting arrives in Hong Kong, imbued with unfamiliar and peculiar longing. The camera navigates through Hong Kong with warm light and soft hues, following Yuen Ting′s journey between the past and present, reality and fantasy. (Source: BIFF.kr) Edit Translation

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