Sisterhood (2016 film)

Sisterhood (Chinese: 骨妹; Jyutping: Gwaat Mui) is a 2016 Macau-Hong Kong drama film directed by Tracy Choi and starring Gigi Leung, Fish Liew and Jennifer Yu.[2] The film had its North American premiere at the Toronto LGBT Film Festival on 28 May 2017.[3][4]

Sisterhood
Theatrical release poster
Chinese	骨妹
Cantonese	Gwat^1 Mui^6
Directed by	Tracy Choi
Produced by	Tang Wai-but Ding Yuin-shan Jacqueline Liu
Written by	Au Kin-yee
Starring	Gigi Leung Fish Liew Jennifer Yu
Music by	Ellison Lau
Cinematography	Cheong Sin-mei
Edited by	Tracy Choi
Production company	One Cool Film Production
Distributed by	One Cool Pictures
Release date	December 12, 2016 (2016-12-12) (IFFAM) February 23, 2017 (2017-02-23) (Hong Kong)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	Macau Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese Mandarin
Box office	US$160,000[1]

Premise

In the 1990s, Sei finds herself a job at a massage parlor in Macau and befriends Ling, an older woman who is a single mother. On the eve of Macau's handover to China, they have a fight which sets them on separate paths: Sei moves to Taiwan to marry a guest house owner while Ling stays in Macau with her infant son. Fifteen years later, Sei, now in her late thirties, learns that Ling has died. She decides to return to Macau to revisit her past in a familiar yet very different Macau.

Cast

• Gigi Leung as Sei
• Fish Liew as Teenage Sei
• Jennifer Yu as Ling
• Lee Lee-zen as Chen Chung
• Kevin Chu as Teenage Chen Chung
• Stephanie Che as #38
• Panther Chan as Teenage #38
• Teresa Mak as #44
• Eliz Lao as Teenage #44
• Elena Kong as Lai
• Dino Acconci as Massage parlor manager
• Louis Castro as Bakery boss
• Terence Siufay as Restaurant owner
• Ai Wai

Soundtrack

Featured songs

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Performer	Length
1.	"Farewell to Yesterday 告別昨天"	Panther Chan, MJ	Panther Chan

Reception

Accolades

Award	Category	Recipient and nominee	Result	Ref
1st Macao International Film Festival and Awards	Audience Choice Award	Sisterhood	Won	[5][6]
	Best New Young Actress	Jennifer Yu	Won
23rd Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award	Best Actress	Fish Liew	Nominated	[7]
	Best new performer	Jennifer Yu	Nominated
12th Osaka Asian Film Festival	Most Promising Talent Award	Fish Liew	Won	[8]
36th Hong Kong Film Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Fish Liew	Nominated
	Best New Performer	Jennifer Yu	Nominated
17th Chinese Film Media Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Fish Liew	Nominated	[9]
	Best New Performer	Jennifer Yu	Nominated
2017 Inside Out | Toronto LGBT Film Festival	Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature	Sisterhood	Won	[10]

References

1. "骨妹-票房收入-香港偶像劇場". hk.dorama.info.
2. Tsui, Clarence (December 21, 2016). "'Sisterhood' ('Gwaat Mui'): Film Review | Macau 2016". The Hollywood Reporter.
3. "Inside Out – Toronto LGBT Film Festival". issuu. 2017. p. 49. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
4. Sumi, Glenn; Cole, Susan G.; Wilner, Norman; Ritchie, Kevin (May 24, 2017). "The Inside scoop on the Inside Out LGBT Film Festival". NOW. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
5. Lee, Edmund (20 July 2018). "Film review: Sisterhood – Macau-set melodrama a poignant tale of lesbian love, loss and longing". South China Morning Post.
6. "Sisterhood Won the 'Eye of the Audience' Macao Audience Choice Award at IFFAM". hkfilmart.com. Hong Kong Trade Development Council. December 2016.
7. Frater, Patrick (February 7, 2017). "Indies, Newcomers Dominate Hong Kong Film Award Nominations". Variety. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
8. "The list of award winners". Osaka Asian Film Festival. 2017.
9. "第17届华语电影传媒盛典公布提名名单" [17th Chinese Film Media Festival announces nomination list]. Mtime.com (in Chinese). August 29, 2017.
10. "Awards – 2017". Inside Out | Toronto LGBT Film Festival. 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2019.

Further reading

• Gray, Madeleine (August 23, 2017). "Just Friends? "Sisterhood" And The Queer Female Experience". Curve.
• Kai, Poo Yee (27 February 2017). "Debut director catches the changing face of Macau". China Entertainment News.
• "Lesbian film director Tracy Choi talks about her new film《Sisterhood》and the reason why she used a massage parlor as her main set". LalaTai. November 21, 2017.
• "Sisterhood – love, loss and longing in Macau". Screen NSW. September 21, 2017.

External links

• Sisterhood at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
• Sisterhood on IMDb
• Sisterhood at Douban (in Chinese)
• Sisterhood at the Mtime.com (in Chinese)