PlayedScreened 4 September
The Hongkonger
The Hong Konger · 2022 · 73 min · Ron Holwerda
Jimmy Lai’s choice, after the state put Apple Daily and its publisher in the same frame.
The Washington Briefing
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A streaming centre for the capital — twenty-eight films from the White House, the Hill, the border and the alliance, playing on this site.
28 films · on this site · no off-site jump
The Briefing
Carney walks into the White House
The Prime Minister’s visit, as Washington staged it — flags, motorcade, the South Lawn handshake. The bureau’s read is in the Canada–U.S. file.
Canada–U.S. · 0:30 · Washington Bureau video
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Special screening
Two nights on Watch
Watch puts Eyes of the Machine up at 19:00 on 22 September, then Revolution of Our Times at 19:00 on the 23rd.
Played
ComingWatch · 22 September, 19:00
Eyes of the Machine
2025 · 76 min · Daya Cahen
Kalbinur Sidik’s testimony, cut against the state’s own cameras — one woman’s file on Xinjiang.
ComingWatch · 23 September, 19:00
Revolution of Our Times
2021 · 152 min · Kiwi Chow
Kiwi Chow’s Cannes record of 2019 — the slogan the Hong Kong courts later treated as a crime.
West Wing and the Hill
The presidency, the House and the Senate — the buildings that still set the week.
5 films
Canada in the frame
The border, the embassy circuit and the northern line Washington keeps misreading.
6 films
The Pentagon
NORAD, the Arctic, the Gulf and the hulls Ottawa is asked to stand beside.
6 films
Money and the map
The Fed, the floor and the midterm that will decide whether Congress is a veto.
3 films
Statecraft
Foggy Bottom, the East River and the neighbourhood Washington still treats as a test.
3 films
The Docket
A court that has taught the capital that speed can stand in for a statute.
1 film
Energy, health, compute
Pipes, campuses and wafers — the files that outlast a news cycle.
4 films