VANISHING DAYS

MAN YOU

By Xin ZHU

PARALLAX FILMS - as PROD

Children's - Completed 2018

Set in the summer of 2009 in a riverside southern Chinese town, before the shower arrives. While Li Senlin lacks inspiration for her essay, Auntie Qiu, a long absent relative and boat-woman reappears in her house and narrates an adventure of an uninhabited island.

Festivals
& Awards

Busan - BIFF/APM 2018
New Currents
Marrakech International Film Festival 2018
Competition
Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2019
Forum
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Children's, First film, Drama
    • Countries
    • CHINA
    • Languages
    • CHINESE
    • Duration
    • 93 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Xin ZHU
    • Producer(s)
    • Jingyuan WANG (Midday Hill Films), Yantao XIA (Midday Hill Films), Jin ZHAO (Midnight Blur Films)
    • Synopsis
    • It is summer of 2009. In a southern Chinese town, it is stiflingly hot before the arrival of a rainstorm.

      Li Senlin is bored and stuck doing homework. Auntie Qiu, a boatwoman who has not shown up for years, suddenly makes a visit, and recounts the tale of a strange encounter on an abandoned island.

      Li Senlin loses her turtle while her father is away on a business trip. There's another "Senlin" that keeps on being mentioned by her parents. She faintly suspects that Auntie Qiu is actually her biological mother.

      The summer rain pours down as memory and reality interweave into one another. The water of the Great Canal dampens each individual that roams along it, and a red flag flaps still at the stern.