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Manting
曼婷
CHEN Shuyao
- 15 min
- 2023
- Fiction
- Mandarin
- English Subtitles
Toronto Premiere
12:00 PM, SAT, AUG 10
Innis Town Hall
Screening with · DIANA (15 mins), Tanjong Rhu (The Casuarina Cove) (19 mins), To Write from Memory (18 mins), Baby Gay (9 mins), Something Blue (14 mins)
12:00 PM, SAT, AUG 10
Innis Town Hall
Screening with
DIANA (15 mins), Tanjong Rhu (The Casuarina Cove) (19 mins), To Write from Memory (18 mins), Baby Gay (9 mins), Something Blue (14 mins)
Manting (ZHANG Yijing), a Chinese woman in her early 60s, reconnects with her lesbian lover (ZHANG Min) from adolescence. After a class reunion, they spend a night together, wandering through the city and reliving memories.
Director
CHEN Shuyao was born and raised in Wenzhou, a coastal city in Southeast China. She moved to New York in 2018 to pursue a MFA degree at NYU after she completed her studies in photojournalism at Penn State University. Her first short film Winter by the River won Best Actor (Asian International Competition) at Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2022 and Best Short Film at Berlin Film Week 2022, and was selected by HollyShorts Film Festival 2022.
Credits
- DirectorCHEN Shuyao
- Principal CastZHANG Yijing, ZHANG Min
- ProducerHU Yuanxing
- ScreenplayCHEN Shuyao
- CinematographerWEN Yifan
- Production DesignerHOU Zongjian
- Costume DesignerYE Zixin
- EditorCHEN Shikong
- SoundHUANG Aobo
- MusicSeowon Hyun