SYNOPSIS
It’s a wet winter in Hangzhou. Muzi, 22, comes home for Chinese New Year, where she plays her roles as a daughter, a half-sister, and a girlfriend. One day, Muzi accompanies her little sister to school and meets a local bar owner, the father of another student. The strange man reminds Muzi of an old friend, waking up memories of her relationship with whom that suddenly disappeared into thin air. At the same time, Muzi’s boyfriend arrives for a visit. Roaming in this city that feels so familiar yet distant, Muzi searches for a place where she belongs.
Awards
It’s a wet winter in Hangzhou. Muzi, 22, comes home for Chinese New Year, where she plays her roles as a daughter, a half-sister, and a girlfriend. One day, Muzi accompanies her little sister | Rotterdam IFF, Netherlands, 2020
CAST & CREW
Zheng Lu Xinyuan
Director
Producer(s)
Wang Zijian
Script
Zheng Lu Xinyuan
Director of Photography
Matthias Delvaux
Production designer
Sheng Chenchen
Music by
Tseng Yun-Fang
Sound
Gang Yang, Li Dan-feng
Edit
Liu Xinzhu, Zheng Lu Xinyuan
Cast
Jin Jing, Liu Dan, Chen Zhou, Ye Hongming, Dong Kangning, Liang Cuishan, Wang Ruiwen
Production company(ies)
Blackfin (Beijing) Culture & Media Co., Rediance
Zheng Lu Xinyuan
Zheng Lu Xinyuan is a filmmaker based in Hangzhou, China. She graduated from School of Cinematic Arts, USC with a Film Production MFA in 2017. Her short films were selected to screen at festivals such as Tribeca FF, FIRST IFF, BiCity Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture and China Independent FF. Xinyuan tries to cultivate a personal visual practice that explores the boundaries of various media.
Filmography
Dinner, (2012, doc.), Women on Islands (2014, short), Running in a Sleeping River (2016, short), Funeral in the Rain (2016, short), Niu in the Last Day of Fall (2017, doc.), Smokers Die Slowly Together (2017, short), Feverish (2018, short), A White Butterfly on a Bus (2018, short), The Cloud in Her Room (2020).
