Directing

Gorretti Mak Yan-Yan

Known for

Directing

Credits

22 titles

Mak Yan-Yan is a Hong Kong based female award-winning director. She was born in the 1970s and graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in 1998. Since 1993, as a student, Mak had worked for the film industry as a continuity girl, assistant director, production manager, art director and wardrobe designer. Her graduation short film Snapshots won the Distinguish Award at the International Short Film & Video Awards of Hong Kong in 1998. After directing number of short dramas for Radio Television Hong Kong, she established her own production company Lotus Film, to make her own film. Her debut feature film, Gege (Brother), although using a very limited budget, a small crew and an a…

Known for

Behind the camera

Butterfly poster
6.5

Flavia is a thirtysomething married teacher. She has suppressed the memory of her adolescent lesbian fling with Jin and is stuck in a stifling marriage. A chance encounter in a supermarket with the playful and seductive singer Yip reawakens dormant feelings and she begins to think back on her teenage affair with Jin.

Butterfly

2004

Butterfly poster
6.5

Flavia is a thirtysomething married teacher. She has suppressed the memory of her adolescent lesbian fling with Jin and is stuck in a stifling marriage. A chance encounter in a supermarket with the playful and seductive singer Yip reawakens dormant feelings and she begins to think back on her teenage affair with Jin.

Butterfly

2004

Shanghai, I Love You poster
NR

This "Cities of Love" episode takes us to one of the most fascinating cities in the world. Shanghai stands for a long history of sensuality, intrigues and mystery.

Shanghai, I Love You

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Merry-Go-Round poster
6.2

The story of two women, two generations apart, who coincidentally return to Hong Kong from San Francisco where they had their first, fleeting encounter on the streets as strangers.

Merry-Go-Round

2010

Merry-Go-Round poster
6.2

The story of two women, two generations apart, who coincidentally return to Hong Kong from San Francisco where they had their first, fleeting encounter on the streets as strangers.

Merry-Go-Round

2010

Merry-Go-Round poster
6.2

The story of two women, two generations apart, who coincidentally return to Hong Kong from San Francisco where they had their first, fleeting encounter on the streets as strangers.

Merry-Go-Round

2010

The Decameron poster
NR

A documentary on madness, by Hong Kong director Yan Yan Mak and singer-songwriter Denise Ho. Inspired by the classic "Ten Days in A Madhouse"

The Decameron

2010

The Decameron poster
NR

A documentary on madness, by Hong Kong director Yan Yan Mak and singer-songwriter Denise Ho. Inspired by the classic "Ten Days in A Madhouse"

The Decameron

2010

The Decameron poster
NR

A documentary on madness, by Hong Kong director Yan Yan Mak and singer-songwriter Denise Ho. Inspired by the classic "Ten Days in A Madhouse"

The Decameron

2010

No artwork available
NR

1995 short film

100%G

1995

No artwork available
NR

The Great War: Director's Cut (2013)

The Great War: Director's Cut

2013

No artwork available
6.0

Ah Ming searches for his brother, who ran away seven years prior. The only clue is a single letter sent from the remote town of Qinghai. Once there, Ah Ming slowly wins the trust of the locals and talks to his brother's friends. Eventually he finds his brother's Super-8 film and a map of China marked with his travels. Recognising that he is unlikely to ever find his brother, Ah Ming fatefully follows in his sibling's footsteps. - Melbourne International Film Festival

Brother

2001

Bric-a-Brac poster
NR

Siu, in her seventies, once again endures cruel and unreasonable threats and abuse from her son at home. Having endured it all her life, she determined to push the old sofa that should have been discarded long ago out of her home.

Bric-a-Brac

2024

Bric-a-Brac poster
NR

Siu, in her seventies, once again endures cruel and unreasonable threats and abuse from her son at home. Having endured it all her life, she determined to push the old sofa that should have been discarded long ago out of her home.

Bric-a-Brac

2024

Bric-a-Brac poster
NR

Siu, in her seventies, once again endures cruel and unreasonable threats and abuse from her son at home. Having endured it all her life, she determined to push the old sofa that should have been discarded long ago out of her home.

Bric-a-Brac

2024

Slight @ Love More HK poster
NR

Slight @ Love More HK

Slight @ Love More HK

2011

No artwork available
NR

The Body of Book - short film

The Body of Book

2003

2 Cartons of Alphabet H poster
NR

Two travelers’ (a Hong Kong independent director and a Japanese musician) motorcycle diaries in northern China from November 2005 to February 2006. Forget all the vital intellectual and history garbage and get down to the real simple, good human feeling – and express it in a simple language that reaches people. No bullshit! (Or all bullshit?) Under the sound of the motor, Yanyan’s visual and Dean’s music weaves into each other; and shows the healing power of the trip to both the Chinese and Japanese souls. Everybody, at a certain point, is a little lost and sometimes we just find a connection to someone that helps to re-inspire or center us. And that experience we'll never forget. It’s a special relationship in real life - a little bit more than friends but not an actual romance. They get each other and they both know it's not going to go anywhere.

2 Cartons of Alphabet H

2006

2 Cartons of Alphabet H poster
NR

Two travelers’ (a Hong Kong independent director and a Japanese musician) motorcycle diaries in northern China from November 2005 to February 2006. Forget all the vital intellectual and history garbage and get down to the real simple, good human feeling – and express it in a simple language that reaches people. No bullshit! (Or all bullshit?) Under the sound of the motor, Yanyan’s visual and Dean’s music weaves into each other; and shows the healing power of the trip to both the Chinese and Japanese souls. Everybody, at a certain point, is a little lost and sometimes we just find a connection to someone that helps to re-inspire or center us. And that experience we'll never forget. It’s a special relationship in real life - a little bit more than friends but not an actual romance. They get each other and they both know it's not going to go anywhere.

2 Cartons of Alphabet H

2006

August Story poster
NR

The film follows a girl in Hong Kong between her uncle’s dressmaking shop and her studies; between young and youth. Based on a story by Wai Chan.

August Story

2006

August Story poster
NR

The film follows a girl in Hong Kong between her uncle’s dressmaking shop and her studies; between young and youth. Based on a story by Wai Chan.

August Story

2006

No artwork available
NR

1998 short by Mak Yan-Yan

了了

1998