Septet: The Story of Hong Kong
(Qi ren yue dui)

In the beginning, Johnnie To – who was worried about the shutting down of the last lab to process film stock in Hong Kong – had imagined a story for which each of his generation’s filmmakers would make a part. A way of locally and melancholically recognising an era of film that they were the last to represent. The project evolved to become this omnibus film and a tribute paid by the seven Hong Kong New Wave filmmakers to a city that remains one of their films’ main characters. JB