Virgin Blue
New York Asian Film Festival 2022
July 15 - 31, 2022
This marvelous, enigmatic, sentimental story takes viewers to a secret spot by the pond, where the boundary between dreams and reality is gently blurred. Screens with Tang Yi’s All the Crows in the World.
Yezi returns to her home by the Flower Fish Pond to spend her last college summer vacation with her grandmother, who seems to have dementia. Following traces of grandma’s folklore tales and supernatural apparitions, Yezi encounters pond monsters at a midnight ceremony. The monsters reveal the whereabouts of her deceased grandfather in a parallel world. As Yezi wanders between the two worlds, constantly gathering fragments of forgotten childhood memories, the connection between past and present gradually emerges. This marvelous, enigmatic, sentimental story takes viewers to a secret spot by the pond, where the boundary between dreams and reality is gently blurred.
Screens with:
All the Crows In The World / 天下乌鸦
Tang Yi, Hong Kong, 2021, 14m
Mandarin and Zhuang with English subtitles
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