Lili Alone

朵丽

ZOU Jing

  • 22 min
  • 2021
  • Fiction
  • Sichuanese Dialect and Mandarin Chinese
  • English Subtitles

The 74th Cannes Film Festival – Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film

7:30 PM, FRI, AUG 12

Innis Town Hall

Short Film · Screening with · Keep Rolling (113 min) · All the Crows in the World (15 min)

Screening with

Keep Rolling (113 min)

All the Crows in the World (15 min)

Lili, a young mother, lives with her gambler husband in a remote part of Sichuan.

Lonely and poor, she heads for the city in a bid to earn enough money to save her dying father.

Director

ZOU Jing headshot

ZOU Jing, born in 1984, is a Chinese director and writer based out of Shanghai and Los Angeles. Jing came from literature background, but she found her calling when she began working at Shanghai International TV station as a director/editor on documentaries.

As a fanatic lover of literature and philosophy, Jing has always loved writing. Lili Alone is her first short film. Her ultimate goal is to write and direct feature films that explore the truths in modern China life.

Credits

  • DirectorZOU Jing
  • Principal CastHUANG Lili
  • ProducerWANG Yang, QIU Yang
  • ScreenplayZOU JING
  • CinematographerLiangzi
  • EditorHsu Yen Ching
  • SoundMO Huijia
Lili Alone