Reel Asian 2024: ‘Borrowed Time’ Puts Hong Kong on Mute
'Borrowed Time' stars Lin Dongping as a young woman with an estranged father in Hong Kong embarking on an oneiric journey from mainland China.
Rose Ho is a film critic. After her art criticism degree, she started her personal film blog, Rose-Coloured Ray-Bans, and joined the visual arts editorial team of LooseLeaf Magazine by Project 40 Collective, a creative platform for Canadian artists and writers of pan-Asian background. In 2020, she received the Emerging Critic Award from the Toronto Film Critics Association.
'Borrowed Time' stars Lin Dongping as a young woman with an estranged father in Hong Kong embarking on an oneiric journey from mainland China.
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