Synopsis

In an ordinary Chinese winter, a small city junior high student, YU, tries to quit her school aerobic dancing team.

Director’s bio

QIU Jiongjiong (born 1977) is an active contemporary artist and filmmaker in China.As an artist, his works have been exhibited all over the world. As a filmmaker, hisexperiments with cinematic language and aesthetics in documentary film-makinghave earned him a reputation as one of China's most important independentdirectors. His experimental/documentary feature MR. ZHANG BELIEVES (2015),premiered at Locarno Film Festival and has been screened internationally. A NEWOLD PLAY(2021) as his first fiction feature, won Special Jury Prize at Locarno,Firebird Award for Best Film and FIPRESCI Prize at HKIFF and Young Jury Awardat Festival des 3 Continents among others.

Curator Note

Festival & Awards

• 72th Festival de Cannes - 58th Critics’ Week - Leitz Cine Discovery Prize

• 44th Toronto International Film Festival

• 57th New York Film Festival

• 63rd BFI London Film Festival

Casts

Xue Jiayi, Shuxian Li, Frank Sun

Credits

• Cinematographer: Constanze SCHMITT

• Sound: Zhu MEI, Livia RUZIC, Emmanuel CROSET

• Composer: Ryan SOMERVILLE

• Editor: Carlo Francisco MANATAD

• Production Designer: Yinghao SHAN