Female Directors

A voyage between a woman searching for the meaning of life and a man holding a book of poems on the longest river of Mainland China.

Wu is in her mid-twenties and lives with her mother in a traditional one-story house in one of Beijing’s hutongs. Both consider themselves to be writers, but success has so far eluded them. The fact that Wu is supported by a divorced, elderly man helps the women through lean periods. Their unhealthily close relationship is characterized by reproaches and quibbling; only during meals do they appear to lay down their verbal weapons. The situation escalates when both Wu and her mother hit an emotional low.

During the pandemic, someone shot a short film on a mobile phone—— it’s a love story about an airline stewardess who wanted to fall in love during the dynamic zero-COVID policy in Beijing, so she set out to reconnect with her ex-boyfriends.