Elsewhere
My Role: Screenwriter | Director
Film Synopsis: After receiving the news of her ex-husband’s accidental death, a seemingly unconcerned single middle-aged woman goes ahead with her original plan of going to a resort in Hainan to put an apartment of hers in order and spending a vacation there. However, as time passes, her inner anxiety slowly emerges, and the resort also reveals a different image of itself...
Trailer
Full-Length Film_ 21min
Shooting Process Documentary
Description
A single, independent, middle-aged woman who seems to be doing well, realizes at one moment the deceptive nature of her life – the story of such a character in this particular space of Hainan fascinated me and I wanted to present it.
In recent years, owning a house in Hainan where you can spend your vacations has become one part of the “good life” sought by some middle-class Chinese people. I was once in Hainan during the off-season, the strong feeling I got from the empty recreational areas and abandoned commercial buildings was one of “deceptiveness,” and made me think of the people around me who owned properties there.
As a Chinese born after 1995, the generation before me went through the process of moving its roots from the county town to the city, and so I was born and raised in an urban area. Nowadays, China’s development is constantly accelerating. As a creator, I want to explore the inner emotional and spiritual plight of those who are now materially fulfilled in China’s cities. This short film is my initial experimentation and exploration of this topic.
Awards
· Official Selection, Short Film Corner | Rendez-vous Industry, The Festival de Cannes 2022
· Official Selection, Student Film, The European Independent Film Festival 2022
· Official Selection, The 11th Beijing International Short Film Festival 2021
· Best Actress, The Ningbo International Film Festival 2021
· Official Selection, Hishorts! Film Festival 2022
· Official Selection, The Next Wave Hainan Film Exhibition for new Authors 2022
Starring: Liu Dan
First-class actor, National Theatre of China
In 2008, won the Best Actress Award at the 10th Buenos Aires International Film Festival for her lead role in the film Night Train, a film selected for competition in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2008 Cannes International Film Festival.
In 2016, starred as a lead role in the film The Pluto Moment, which was selected to screen in the Directors’ Fortnight section at the 2018 Cannes International Film Festival.
In 2019, starred in the film The Cloud in Her Room, which won the Tiger Award at the 49th Rotterdam Film Festival.
In 2019, starred as the lead role in the latest play Faust by Lithuanian national treasure director, Rimas Tuminas. The play completed a tour of 15 shows in Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou and other places from October 2019 to January 2020.
