Stonewalling

2022 / 148' / Japan / In Mandarin and Hunanese, with Chinese and English Subtitle / Color

★ 2023 Golden Horse Film Festiva - Best Narrative Feature and Best Film Editing

★ 2022 Venice International Film Festival - Venice Days - Selected

★ 2021 HAF's "Work-in-Progress", received "Work-in-Progress" Awards and participated in "HAF Goes to Cannes 2021" - Shortlisted

She is a 20-year-old girl with three faces. By her real name Lynn, she is a college student, unexpectedly pregnant. Under the pseudonym “Rainy”, she works as a part-time promoter to help her mother, who has to compensate her patient for a medical malpractice. To clear her debt, she offers to give birth under the identity of “Silvia”, giving out her baby in lieu of money compensation. As she is about to labour during the coronavirus pandemic, her boy-friend suddenly shows up, and the debtor hesitates to receive the newborn...

Director:Ryuji Otsuka, Huang Ji

Cast:Honggui Yao, Xiaoxiong Huang, Zilong Xiao

About the Director

Huang Ji

Born in Hunan in 1984, and studied screenwriting in the Beijing Film Academy. Since her first short film, The Warmth of Orange Peel (2009), she has been focusing on exploring the secrets of women’s inner emotions. Egg And Stone (2012), her debut feature, won the Tiger Award of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, while her sophomore film, The Foolish Bird (2017), was awarded the Special Mention of the Generation 14+ International Jury at Berlinale. She is also the founder and tutor of

Around You Film Workshop, which engages in educating the new generation.

Otsuka Ryuji

Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1972. He relocated to China in 2015 to work in

independent filmmaking, and has since been serving as the cinematographer and producer for all the films directed by Huang Ji. In 2013, he made his first documentary, Beijing Ants, as a solo director. His co-directed The Foolish Bird (2017) won him the Best Artistic Originality Award (DoP) in FIRST International Film Festival. His recent cinematography work includes A Family Tour (2018) and Damp Season (2020).

About us

The Cinematheque・Passion is located at Travessa da Paixão which is a narrow and romantic bystreet branching off the famous World Heritage Site "Ruins of St. Paul's Cathedral" (the "St. Paul's Cathedral Site") in the Historic Centre of Macau. A three-storey building equipped with ticket office, screening room, control room, film information room and exhibition space.
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Phone (+853) 2852 2585
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