LET THE DUST SETTLE

By Sei-Hong CHENG

FRESH WAVE FILM FESTIVAL LIMITED - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline / FIN / FEST

Family - Completed 2023

A family story happened during the COVID-19 pandemic. A married woman returns to her native Hong Kong to visit her estranged father, who is on the verge of death. While in hotel quarantine, she had to deal with both the old and new emotional grievances from her father and husband.

Festivals
& Awards

Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival 2023
Local Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Family, Drama
    • Countries
    • HONG KONG (CHINA)
    • Languages
    • CANTONESE, MANDARIN
    • Duration
    • 30 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Sei-Hong CHENG
    • Writer(s)
    • Sei-Hong CHENG
    • Producer(s)
    • Christy TSE
    • Synopsis
    • What is love in the time of Coronavirus, when people are separated in both space and time? Wing returns to Hong Kong from Taiwan upon learning that her estranged father is dying in a hospital but she has to undergo quarantine in a hotel. Talking to her father through the screen, Wing realises she can never forgive this older man who abandoned the family many years ago, while the other man, her husband, seems very far away in Taiwan. Isolated in the tiny hotel room, Wing battles alone with the diseases of body and mind, caused by old and new grievances.