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Summer Knows

知了

ZHONG Hongshi

  • 20 min
  • 2023
  • Fiction
  • Chongqing Dialect
  • English and Chinese Subtitles

North American Premiere

7:30 PM, WED, AUG 14

Innis Town Hall

In-Person Q&A with Director · Zoom Q&A with Director and Screening with · May the Lord Protect us (15 mins), A Year Apart (17 mins), Chan Is Fishing (14 mins), Two Suns (15 mins), Redacted (19 mins), Sojourn to Shangri-La (20 mins), All About Shaochang (20 mins)

Zoom Q&A with Director and Screening with

May the Lord Protect us (15 mins), A Year Apart (17 mins), Chan Is Fishing (14 mins), Two Suns (15 mins), Redacted (19 mins), Sojourn to Shangri-La (20 mins), All About Shaochang (20 mins)

Summer of 2001, as Beijing wins the bid to host the 29th Summer Olympics, an ordinary Chinese family is slowly falling apart. Catching glimpses of the distress and secrets harboured by each family member, Hui, an innocent six-year-old girl, only wants to seize the summer while it lasts.

Director

ZHONG Hongshi headshot

Writer-director ZHONG Hongshi earned her BFA from NYU Tisch Film & TV and her MFA from USC School of Cinematic Arts. She is passionate about exploring the complexities of family dynamics across different cultures and seeks to capture the universality in human’s emotional experiences. Her latest short film Summer Knows is an official selection for Shanghai International Film Festival and has won the Audience Awards at the NOWNESS Short Film Awards and Best Screenplay at 86358 Jia Village Short Film Week; her short film Toad has also been recognized at over 30 international film festivals.

Credits

  • DirectorZHONG Hongshi
  • Principal CastZHANG Yaqi
  • ProducerHUANG Zhichun
  • ScreenplayZHONG Hongshi
  • CinematographerLI Chaochen
  • Production DesignerZHAO Yuelin
  • EditorZHONG Hongshi
  • SoundGU Jiaqing