Completed - CHINESE, THAI - Drama - 104 minutes
The first days of 2020's lockdown seem to drag forever for a group of tourists trapped in a Thai hotel. In strict confinement and as the big day of an unexpected event approaches, emotional entanglements, tensions and long kept secrets rise to the surface.
Year of production : 2022 Director(s) : Xiaoshuai WANG Writer(s) : Dai NING, Fu YE Cast : Yuanyuan NING, Fu YE, Ying QU, Xiaolei HUANG, Jun DAI, Worrapon SRISAI, Zonghan LI Producer(s) : Yuan ZHANG (Hong Kong General Film Company Limited), Xuan LIU (Hong Kong Front Films Co.,Ltd.)
At the early spring of 2020, being stranded in a foreign country because of the COVID-19, a Beijing girl that’s about to graduate from university, meets a middle-aged man from Wuhan who lives in the same hotel with her. Together with them are other three Chinese and a local who has no intention to be involved. Facing not only the challenge of abnormal life caused by lockdown, curfew and quarantine, but also the cruel test of human nature. In this mentally barren world, in an extreme limited space where epidemic, love and kinship are infinitely magnified, what will they choose? A Chinese director and the team tell a story and shoot in 14 day provisionally outside of China during this pandemic. The story carries the concept of spiritual and carnal vagrancy, breaks the geographic boundaries, and depicts an inevitable disaster when mankind are put in a such dark time.
Country(ies) : HONG KONG (CHINA)
Toronto - TIFF 2022 (was selected in the Contemporary World Cinema section)Roma 2022 (was selected in the Official Selection)Barcelona 2022 (won the Best Director Awards)