A panel with Ka Ki Wong and actress Elizabeth Tang (I Heard That They Are Not Going To See Each Other Anymore) and William Wrubel (When We Saw Each Other More Often) exploring how to portray youth in cinema today without falling into the usual tropes.
Both filmmakers approach youth through deeply intimate perspectives, though from very different cinematic languages. In Ka Ki Wong’s case, through hybrid forms that blur documentary and fiction, capturing the emotional immediacy of her characters with a restless, urban energy reminiscent at times of 1990s Hong Kong cinema. Her film moves with spontaneity and emotional urgency, less interested in conventional storytelling than in building emotional states through fragments, gestures, the city and the intensity of lived experience.
In Wrubel’s case, through a sparse and observational mise-en-scène influenced by the cinema of his mentor, Angela Schanelec, as well as the use of Super 16mm film, which gives his images a particular texture and fragility. Rather than constructing a conventional coming-of-age narrative, Wrubel approaches youth throughspaces, silences and emotional disconnection, creating a cinematic map where the city itself becomes a central emotional presence.
Both films move away from more obvious or overdetermined portrayals of youth in order to construct more ambiguous, sensitive and truthful portraits of what it means to be young today.

Con Ka Ki Wong y William Wrubel.