Drumming in the Ears

During Lunar New Year, a family gathers to eat; but nobody is eating. Grandma looks towards the empty chair, nobody dares to start the meal. The room stays silent as the hot pot bubbles. Everyone gets hungrier and hungrier. The Son has had enough, and breaks the silence. He tells the story of the Argali Goat.

A fourteen-year-old dancer meets a new choreographer whose strict and humiliating training triggers involuntary tics in her. The more she tries to suppress them, the less control she has over her own body. Through the indocile and dissonant bodies of young girls in the face of authority, this film aims to exhibit the subversive power embedded in feminine fragility.