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Melanie returns to Hong Kong as filmmaker-in-residence at a university after living abroad for decades. She tries to redefine her cultural roots and affiliations. Niki is making a documentary film about their family’s migration from China to their Hakka village. Melanie and Niki Both realise they are living with an original “molecule” that can’t be erased even after generations of dilution, the so-called “Memory of Water.”
Other films by Mary Stephen
Palimpsest: The Story of a Name
2026
Vision from the Edge: Breyten Breytenbach Painting the Lines
1998
In Transit, in Transition: Poem from South Africa
In Transit, in Transition: Poem from South Africa
1998
In Transit, in Transition: A Poetic Encounter in Hong Kong
In Transit, in Transition: A Poetic Encounter in Hong Kong
1997
