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<i>A Gentle Night</i>

A Gentle Night

2017 Chinese film

A Gentle Night (小城二月 Xiao Cheng Er Yue) is a 2017 Chinese short film written and directed by Qiu Yang.[1] It won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

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Plot

In a nameless small Chinese city, a distressed mother desperately tries to find her missing teenaged daughter throughout the night [4]

The film is set in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China.[5]

Cast

  • Li Shuxian as Cai Zhuo[1]

Reception

The film won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival,[1] and received an honorable mention for the Best International Short Film award at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    "XIAO CHENG ER YUE". Festival de Cannes (in French). Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  2. [2]
    "小城二月 (2017)". movie.douban.com (in Chinese). douban.com. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  3. [3]
    "小城二月 (2017)". movie.douban.com (in Chinese). douban.com. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  4. [4]
    https://whistlerfilmfestival.com/film/gentle-night-xiao-cheng-er-yue/ Archived 2018-06-23 at the Wayback Machine Whistler Film Festival
  5. [5]
    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.
  6. [6]
    Norman Wilner, "TIFF 2017: And The Winners Are…". Now, September 17. 2017.


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