‘Hong Kong Cafe Let’s Fight Together’: 10-year Promise Turns Artist’s Work Into Best Feature Animation in Berlin

Friendly Liu (right), a Hong Kong immigrant to Germany, won the Best Animated Feature Award at the 2018 Festival of Animation Berlin, Germany. On the right is a still from the animation entitled ‘Hong Kong Let's Fight Together.’ Photos courtesy of Friendly Liu

An artist who migrated from Hong Kong to Germany fulfills a 10-year promise to her brother and wins a prestigious award in the process.

Friendly Liu (artist name) is and self-taught stop-motion creator. Her work “Hong Kong Café Let’s Fight Together,” a stop-motion video of a childhood memory scene in a Hong Kong Cafe, won the Best Animation Feature Film Award at the Festival of Animation Berlin in 2018. In an interview with the Epoch Times, Liu says she believes people should appreciate things while they are here and not forget them after they disappear.