THE HOTEL

LV GUAN

By Xiaoshuai WANG

DONGCHUN FILMS COMPANY LIMITED - as PROD / FIN

Drama - Completed 2022

The first days of 2020's lockdown seem to drag forever for a group of tourists trapped in a Thai hotel. In strict confinement and as the big day of an unexpected event approaches, emotional entanglements, tensions and long kept secrets rise to the surface.

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2022
was selected in the Contemporary World Cinema section
Roma 2022
was selected in the Official Selection
Barcelona 2022
won the Best Director Awards
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • HONG KONG (CHINA)
    • Languages
    • CHINESE, THAI
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 104 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Xiaoshuai WANG
    • Writer(s)
    • Dai NING, Fu YE
    • Producer(s)
    • Yuan ZHANG (Hong Kong General Film Company Limited), Xuan LIU (Hong Kong Front Films Co.,Ltd.)
    • Synopsis
    • At the early spring of 2020, being stranded in a foreign country because of the COVID-19, a Beijing girl that’s about to graduate from university, meets a middle-aged man from Wuhan who lives in the same hotel with her. Together with them are other three Chinese and a local who has no intention to be involved. Facing not only the challenge of abnormal life caused by lockdown, curfew and quarantine, but also the cruel test of human nature. In this mentally barren world, in an extreme limited space where epidemic, love and kinship are infinitely magnified, what will they choose? A Chinese director and the team tell a story and shoot in 14 day provisionally outside of China during this pandemic. The story carries the concept of spiritual and carnal vagrancy, breaks the geographic boundaries, and depicts an inevitable disaster when mankind are put in a such dark time.