Fly Me to the Moon

113 minutes | 2023 | Fiction | Cantonese, Mandarin, Hunan Dialect, Japanese | English and Chinese Subtitles

Content Advisory: This film contains scenes of violence, mature themes, substance use

Yuen (Sasha CHUK) and her younger sister Kuet (Angela YUEN) move from Hunan to Hong Kong with their family at a young age. The sisters grow up in a cramped public housing flat, with a mother who toils diligently and holds fast to her principles, while their father (WU Kang-ren) struggles with long-term drug addiction and cycles in and out of prison. From childhood to adulthood, two decades pass in the blink of an eye. Yuen believes that if she runs far and hard enough, she could sever all ties with the past — but memory threads everyone together, and every love and hurt alike always leave a trace.

Sasha CHUK majored in Chinese literature and Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. Her short film The Dropout of Her (2019) won Best Cinematography at the 13th Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival. Her next short film Plain Sailing (2022) won the Gold Award at the 27th ifva Awards. In 2020, she won the 6th First Film Initiative by Create Hong Kong with her screenplay Fly Me to the Moon, an adaptation from her novel. Fly Me to The Moon is her feature directorial debut, which earned her a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination at the 60th Golden Horse Awards.