Taking Back the Legislature

Taking Back the Legislature
Poster of Taking back the Legislature distributed by Ying e Chi
Directed byHong Kong Documentary Filmmakers
Distributed byYing e Chi
Release date
  • January 2020 (2020-01)
Running time
~46 minutes
LanguageCantonese

Taking Back the Legislature (Chinese: 佔領立法會) is a Hong Kong documentary, approximately 46 minutes long, that records the unprecedented occupation of the Legislative Council on July 1, 2019. It is a sister work to the documentary Inside the Red Brick Wall. In 2020, it was nominated for Best Documentary at the 57th Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan. On May 6, 2021, both this film and Inside the Red Brick Wall won the Chinese Documentary Award at the 12th Taiwan International Documentary Festival.