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Reuters
Reuters
Entertainment
Clare Jim and James Pomfret

Hong Kong protest film stirs fears of arrest, director defiant

Hong Kong film director Kiwi Chow poses after an interview with Reuters, in Hong Kong, China June 10, 2022. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

The director of a documentary about pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong defended his film on Friday as a truthful historical record after the city's police chief advised people not to watch it.

Fears of falling foul of a national security law imposed on the city by Beijing in 2020 have escalated and some residents have said they have opted not to watch the film, "Revolution of our Times", in another sign of creeping self-censorship.

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