August 18, 9:30 pm
The Cloud in Her Room / Ta fang jian li de yun, 2020, Hong Kong, China, 101 min. Director Zheng Lu Xinyuan. Main prize at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020. Main Competition of of New Holland Island International Debut Film Festival.
22-year-old Muzi returns to her native Hangzhou to celebrate Chinese New Year with her family and readapt to her old social roles: daughter, sister, girlfriend. She meets a strange man who stirs memories of a past relationship. Stuck in limbo between past and future, in a city that is at once so close and so far away, Muzi is trying to find herself and move forward.
In her feature debut, Zheng Lu Xinyuan blends the traditions of Chinese social realism with the free spirit of the ‘new wave’. Unexpected experiments with structure and form, free associations, and the bold inclusion of documentary elements do not compromise the film’s subjective integrity. We are faced with an extremely personal first-person narrative that at the same time provides a sumptuous portrait of China’s twentysomethings, from a previously unseen perspective. The winner of the Tiger Award, the main prize at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020 and a new voice in Chinese cinema.
Фильм демонстрируется на языке оригинала с русскими субтитрами. Показ проходит в наушниках.
The film is shown in the original language with Russian subtitles and wireless headphones.
Please register in advance (link in Russian).
New Holland Island International Debut Film Festival is a platform for new and daring cinema, whose mission is to support original and distinctive creative statements and inscribe new names into the international context. The festival is organised by the team of the New Holland: Cultural Urbanization project.
