Duration|116 min
Language|Mandarin / English
Country|France
World Premiere|Taipei Golden Horse
SYNOPSIS
In a frozen town unwilling to stagnate, a middle-aged man meets true love and decides to come out of the closet. A lesbian couple decides to look for a gay man to marry and have a child. Behind their fiery love stories is an absurd drama of identity politics. The ghost of communism often wanders around the lonely souls.
DIRECTOR’S BIO
Geng Jun
Geng Jun grew up in Heilongjiang, China. Without any film school training, he moved to Beijing and directed many films including HAWTHORN (Short, 2002), DIARY IN BULK (Short, 2003), BARBECUE (2004), YOUTH (2008), AIRPLANE (Short, 2012) and THE HAMMER AND THE SICKLE ARE SLEEPING (Short, 2013). He gained more attention with FREE AND EASY (2016) when it won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award at Sundance Film Festival and received four major nominations at Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival including Best Film and Best Director. His most recent film MANCHURIAN TIGER (2021) won the top distinction of Golden Goblet Award for Best Feature Film at the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival.
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Blackfin Production
CAST
Xu Gang, Zhang Zhiyong, Chen Xuanyu
Wang Jing, Xue Baohe, Wang Zihang
KEY CREW
Director/Screenwriter: Geng Jun
Producer: Wang Zijian
Executive Producer: Zhang Xianmin
Director of Photography: Wang Weihua
Director of Editor: Hoping Chen
Composer: Chen Xiaoshu
Sound Designer: Lou Kun
Art Designer: Wang Weihua
Co-Producer: Liu Zhuo
SELECTED FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
Best Leading Actor
Best Cinematography
Best Film Editing
Audience Choice Award
Hong Kong International Film Festival
Osaka Asian Film Festival
Singapore Chinese Film Festival
London Queer East
