Girls on Wire

2025 / 114' / China / In Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles / Color

★ Premiered at the 75th Berlin Film Festival

★ Written and directed by Wen Yan, director of Carnival, starring Liu Haochun of A Little Red Flower for You and Wen Qi of The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful

Cousins Tian Tian and Fang Di were raised like sisters until family struggles pushed them apart. Fang Di moves away to work as a stuntwoman in China’s largest film studios to clear her family’s debts. Tian Tian remains behind, forced to deal with her father’s addiction, and falls prey to the local mafia. Forced to escape to the Film City, Tian Tian seeks out her cousin. Thrown together against their will and followed by the mob, they will need to combine their strength and resilience to escape a dramatic fate that threatens to consume them both.

Director: Vivian Qu
Cast: Liu Haocun, Wen Qi

About the Director

Vivian Qu, writer, director and producer, made her directorial debut with Trap Street which premiered at the 2013 Venice Critics Weeks. Her second feature Angels Wear White was in Competition at the 2017 Venice Film Festival and won numerous awards around the globe. She is the only female director to ever win Best Director Award at both the Golden Horse Awards and the China Film Director’s Guild Awards.

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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Ticket Office Tuesday to Sunday: 10:00 am to 11:30 pm
Film Information Room Tuesday to Sunday: 10:00 am to 8:00 pm
Exhibition Space Tuesday to Sunday: 10:00 am to 8:00 pm
(Closes on Mondays, opens during public holidays.)

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Phone (+853) 2852 2585
Email cinematheque.passion@gmail.com
Address No. 9-13 Travessa da Paixão, Macau