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High Wire

High Wire
High Wire
High Wire

Synopsis

Go-wing, 19, is going to be the first university graduate in the Au family - or so her father thinks. In between school breaks, she even works in his takeaway to help keep costs down. But Go-wing’s hectic yet mundane and isolated life is about to change when she arrives at a visiting circus on a delivery trip. There, not only her hidden rollerblading talent is celebrated, but she also discovers a bigger ambition - High Wire.
To keep pursuing this new-found, death-defying aspiration and still be the good daughter her father wants - she lies. Go-wing is going to play a balancing act not just on the wire, but also in real life.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

Details

Year
2025
Type of project
Features
Running time
105 min
Format
Digital, 16mm
Director
Calif Chong 1st Feature
Producer
Sanjeev Bhanot, Djonny Chen, Sawan Singh
Co-Producer
Tippy Watson
Executive Producer
Sanjeev Bhanot, Robin Charley, Djonny Chen, Ian Franses, Chris Gale, Willi Kamarad, Johann Kellerer, Charley McDougall, Jamie McLeod-Ross, Ajay Nehra, Ian Fulton Roberts, Sawan Singh
Editor
Nathan Summerfield
Screenwriter
Calif Chong, Jackie Lam
Director of Photography
Matthew P. Scott
Production Designer
Qingling Zhang
Sound
Zak Ferguson
Composer
Edward Lun
Principal cast
Isabella Wei, Ka-Wah Lam, Jackie Lam, Elizabeth Tan, Dominic Lam, Jose Palma, Alina Kovalenko
Associate Producer
Lorine Plagnol

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