A Useless Fiction

Graduate of Freie Universität Wins 2015 Rising Star Award of the Canada International Film Festival and Will Show Film in Cannes. The film A Useless Fiction by Cheong Kin Man, a graduate of Freie Universität Berlin, won the 2015 Rising Star Award at the Canada International Film Festival. It will be shown at the Cannes International Film Festival from May 13 to 24 in the Short Film Corner category. Cheong Kin Man, a translator and interpreter from Macau, studied at Freie Universität from 2012 to 2014 in the Visual and Media Anthropology master's program. The film is his final project; it was graded with a German 1.3, which corresponds to A+ in the international context. A Useless Fiction was the first film by a director from the Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, Macau, to win any awards at an international film festival. It is also the first film by a citizen of Macau to be shown in Cannes.
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