A Gentle Night

A Gentle Night
Poster
Chinese小城二月
Directed byQiu Yang
Screenplay byQiu Yang
StarringLi Shuxian
CinematographyConstanze Schmitt[2]
Edited byCarlo Francisco Manatad[2]
Release dates
Running time
15 minutes[2]
CountryChina

A Gentle Night (小城二月 Xiao Cheng Er Yue) is a 2017 Chinese short film written and directed by Qiu Yang.[2] It won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.[2]

Plot

In a nameless small Chinese city, a distressed mother desperately tries to find her missing teenaged daughter throughout the night [3]

The film is set in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China.[4]

Cast

  • Li Shuxian as Cai Zhuo[2]

Reception

The film won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival,[2] and received an honorable mention for the Best International Short Film award at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.[5]

References

  1. ^ "小城二月 (2017)". movie.douban.com (in Chinese). douban.com. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "XIAO CHENG ER YUE". Festival de Cannes (in French). Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  3. ^ https://whistlerfilmfestival.com/film/gentle-night-xiao-cheng-er-yue/ Archived 2018-06-23 at the Wayback Machine Whistler Film Festival
  4. ^ Fergus Ryan (29 May 2017). "Qiu Yang Becomes First Chinese Director To Win Short Film Palme d'Or". China Film Insider. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  5. ^ Norman Wilner, "TIFF 2017: And The Winners Are…". Now, September 17. 2017.


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