Brother

Colour, 35mm
Hong Kong - China, 2001, 90 min
Section: Forum of Independents

About the film

A young man from Hong Kong decides to go to China to look for his brother whom he has not heard from for three years. His only clue is a postcard from a small town in remote Qinghai, a highland province near Tibet. There he encounters a girl who may have been his brother’s girlfriend, and a young motorcyclist who holds the key to his brother’s disappearance. For the young man, the trip becomes a spiritual journey of discovery whose outcome he could not have foreseen. The film was shot with almost no budget, a crew of six people (half of whom had no film experience) and no professional actors, in a location 4,000 meters above sea level.

About the director

Yan Yan Mak was born in Hong Kong in the 1970s and is a graduate of the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. She has worked as a continuity girl, assistant director, production manager and assistant art director. Brother is her first feature.