Film Talk with Nathan Law & Torsten Benner about BE WATER – VOICES FROM HONG KONG

Moderation: Eva Weinmann


BE WATER – VOICES FROM HONG KONG, DE 2023, Lia Erbal


⁠Umbrella protests in Hong Kong: we hear the voices of people
caught between hope for change and brutal repression⁠.





Nathan Law is a young political activist
that has been leading the Hong Kong democracy movement. Beginning
from the Umbrella Movement in 2014 where he participated as a
student leader, he was there on every page of crucial moments of
the movement. 


Thorsten Benner is co-founder and director of
the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. His areas of
interest include the interplay of the US, Europe and
non-Western powers in the making of global (dis)order, German and
European policy vis-à-vis China and Asia-Pacific, peace and
security⁠ as well as ⁠data and technology
politics⁠.