Hong Kong’s new activists | VPRO Documentary

This documentary is an intimate introduction to the young activists in Hong Kong, who are taking on China’s superpower. Hong Kong’s new activists use successfully (and impressive endurance) totally new resources to secure the future of their city. What can we learn from the activists in Hong Kong? The protests in Hong Kong started six months ago, and there is no sing for it that they will stop. In the Western world, we follow the student protest with astonishment, that take place between the reflective facades of the numerous skyscrapers and expensive retail chains. The protests are tightly organized, disciplined, brave, determined, and come with entirely new and resourceful attack and defense techniques. With pathos and gas masks, they even made it possible to present a new anthem to the world. Former China correspondent and filmmaker Floris-Jan van Luyn follows four front soldiers: students Amy and Edwin, student Charlotte and the fifty-years-old Virginia (leader of the drum bands driv