{"id":394763,"date":"2026-04-12T13:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394763\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:24:07","slug":"controversial-hong-kong-documentary-pulled-from-italian-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/394763\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial Hong Kong documentary pulled from Italian film festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Award-winning Hong Kong documentary To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self has been withdrawn by its distributor from an Italian film festival after a dispute among stakeholders worsened.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Golden Scene said on Sunday that its documentary would not feature at the Far East Film Festival in Udine, 10 days after the event\u2019s line-up listed the title in its \u201cout of competition\u201d section.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe deeply regret this and reserve all legal rights to protect our company\u2019s reputation and interests,\u201d the company said, citing its decision was due to \u201crecent developments\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Co-directed by local filmmaker and Ying Wa Girls\u2019 School alumnus Mabel Cheung Yuen-ting, To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self tracks the lives of six students from the institution for a decade, chronicling their personal journeys amid a turbulent period.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The film, which was initially part of the school\u2019s fundraising efforts among alumni to rebuild the campus in Mid-Levels, was released in local cinemas in February 2023.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The documentary was pulled from cinemas days later after one student featured in the film, Ah Ling, revealed that she did not consent to the public screening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Award-winning Hong Kong documentary To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self has been withdrawn by its distributor from an Italian film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[174793,174790,93,173483,173482,240,61,60,173481,174795,174791,270,43,174794,174792,17573,174796,174789,173480],"class_list":{"0":"post-394763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ah-ling","9":"tag-another-world","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-far-east-film-festival","12":"tag-golden-scene","13":"tag-hong-kong","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-mabel-cheung-yuen-ting","17":"tag-measure-in-love","18":"tag-ming-pao-weekly","19":"tag-movies","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-night-king","22":"tag-sammi-cheng-sau-man","23":"tag-scmp","24":"tag-to-my-year-old-self","25":"tag-udine","26":"tag-ying-wa-girls-school"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}